While the overall picture is depressing, Ramaswami also describes hopeful strands within the social fabric of workers’ lives such as the mutual support and 'bhaichara' (fellowship) between men across ethnic, religious and caste boundaries that become more fluid within the city. The inter-religious and inter-caste ties forged between workers can be seen as small glimmers of hope in the context of the rising tide of Hindutva politics over the past decades.
Today, as we bid farewell to the Dhaka-born singer once fondly called the “Dhake ki malmal,” one is reminded that the softest fabrics often endure the longest. Her voice was just that. Fine, delicate, yet enduring beyond time. And now, as that voice falls silent, it leaves behind not an emptiness, but an echo. An echo that will continue to drift through radio waves, old recordings and the private corners of memory.
Two girls stood silently holding a placard that read: ‘Forcing your daughter to get married is forcing her to get raped.’ The message speaks to a reality across the South Asian region where the priority for most families is to get their daughters married. On a sheet where attendees were penning messages to their mothers -- words they could not say aloud -- an anonymous note read: “Would you rather see me married or alive?”
The result was a phenomenal script with a stellar cast and a music which not only took the storyline ahead but also paused to reflect upon each moment. Satyajit’s rendition of the story has several of his beliefs reflected, including his anti-war stance, his love for performative arts, including various forms of classical dance, his love for history and regional history, amidst others, his stance against caste and class discrimination and oppression of the poor and the tyranny and subjugation of the ruling class
Around 500 children who were once seen begging, ragpicking and fighting on the streets in Rajasthan's Churu district have now transformed into serious students and are attending regular classes, singing patriotic songs and dreaming high to serve the nation as military personnel, police officers and doctors
Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Vikram Doraiswami on Sunday termed the celebration of Netaji's birth anniversary in the country as "very touching" as he hoped that the two friendly neighbours would come even closer in the future
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has ordered the evacuation of a 150-year-old heritage building in Chittagong, which was once the law chamber of freedom fighter Jatindra Mohan Sengupta and his father advocate Jatra Mohon Sengupta, to be converted into a museum
Grammy-nominated Indian-American rapper Raja Kumari feels proud to represent the India American community at the the AAPI Inaugural Ball: Breaking Barriers, and says she is looking forward to a less divided, more united America
Cricket Australia (CA), in an open letter addressed to the Indian cricket board on Wednesday, thanked its counterpart and the Indian team after the conclusion of a successful series between the two teams
Three days after scripting history with the first winter ascent of Mt K2, the world’s second-highest mountain, Nirmal “Nims” Purja, one of the 10 Nepali summiteers, has announced that he climbed without using supplemental oxygen
Bangladesh is the ‘Country of Focus’ at the 51st edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) that began in Goa on January 16
Setting a unique example, a teacher at a school in Madhya Pradesh in central India starts teaching only after worshiping girl students every day. He has been following this for more than 23 years
The Sikh community is all set to observe the Saka Nankana Sahib event from February 19 to 21, for which Pakistan has decided to issue visas to Indian Sikh pilgrims to attend the religious ceremony across the border
Rich tributes were paid to the undisputed queen of the silver screen, Suchitra Sen on her 8th death anniversary across Bangladesh on Sunday
Even as "Sun Dilliye Ni Sun Dilliye", a song written, composed and sung by the two young sisters on the ongoing farmers' protests in India continues to grab thousands of hits on social media from people across the world, the duo maintains that while all the praise has been extremely encouraging, what matters most is that people across barriers have been able to relate to it
Parents in middle-class Muslim families in India generally believe that their children would hardly get a government job, hence, they find it better to engage them in some work rather than letting them pursuing higher studies
They are the Buddhist Kung Fu nuns of Drukpa lineage, known globally for trekking across the Himalayas to clean trash, paddling through mountain rivers to break centuries-old taboos to educate others on women's health, and adopting martial arts as a way to champion gender equality
Bangladeshi director Rezwan Shahriar Sumit's acclaimed debut feature film "Nonajoler Kabbo" won the Best Film in the Asian Select NETPAC category of the 26th Kolkata International Film Festival, reports our New Delhi correspondent
It was announced last year that Jemima Goldsmith would be writing and producing her first romantic-comedy – under the banner of her company Instinct Production – titled What's Love Got To Do With It? Reports further added that she was to collaborate with Indian film-maker Shekhar Kapur on the film, which would be his first since the 2007 Oscar-winner Elizabeth: The Golden Age
