Cat Sticks : Calcutta’s beautiful dark twisted fantasy
Hooghly Hues - Boats on the Hoogly river in Kolkata against the back drop of the majestic Vidyasagar Calcutta 2000. Communist ideologues. Rain-drenched desolate alleyways. A dilapidated hut. A passionate father. Flame and smoke emanating from the crooked end of a similarly drenched wax stick. Individual images conjure up a story of four downtrodden groups of addicts. The city that we get to witness...
Period Poverty: A Hidden Global Health Crisis.
Every year, May 24- 30th marks the Period Poverty Awareness Week, learn more about this issue, its impact and how to combat it.
Dance Therapy
The American Dance Therapy Association(ADTA) defines Dance Therapy as psychotherapeutic use of movement to promote emotional, social, cognitive, and physical integration. It is an approach to healing based on the empirical belief that the mind, body and spirit are interconnected. If you talk about all the needs and desires of any human being, the end result that we eventually come to is happiness. Happiness...
Why isn’t most of India paying Income Tax?: Myth-busting before Budget 2021
Person 1: Only 1% of India pays Income Tax. It’s a sad state of affairs. Person 2: Obviously. There’s black money, and evasion, and most eligible tax-payers don’t pay up. Person 3: And we know they can pay if they want to- because look at the motorcycles and cars and houses being bought…I think I see wealth everywhere. A common myth, perpetuated by such...
Weaponizing Education: Saffron Smoke on Indian Campuses
In the wake of the 41st Foundation Day of the BJP and with the decisive 2021 West Bengal Elections underway, it is a good time to examine the contentious relationship between the ruling party and educational institutes
