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Documentary filmmaker Sanjay Kak talks about his new film, Red Ant Dream, and the architecture of revolutionary desire

reed wrote 1 day ago:   Red Ant Dream — Trailer Published on May 1, 2013 A documentary about those who live the … more →

Tags: Adivasis, chhattisgarh, Delhi, Films and Culture, forced displacement, India, Maoism, media, Military-India

Building a Brave New World

Pascale Scheurer wrote 2 days ago: Award-winning writer Arundhati Roy’s most famous quotation is also one of the most beautiful a … more →

Tags: Aldous Huxley, Architecture, Brave New World, buckminster fuller, Dystopia, Future, GEORGE ORWELL, technology, utopia

The End of Imagination

mariebchoi wrote 6 days ago: Beautiful and necessary piece by Arundhati Roy.  Some excerpts: India’s nuclear tests, the manner in … more →

Tags: Pop ed, Love, (S)heroes, nuclear bomb, Pokharan, Imagination, India

Week Eight: Arundhati Roy

shannon harwood wrote 1 week ago: “And the Air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small T … more →

Tags: Fiction, Photography, The God Of Small Things

Flow...

tarfajay wrote 1 week ago: Hmm… how do I describe it? Okay lets see, remember when you’re listening to a good song that really … more →

Tags: writing, The Script, Chimamanda Adichie, TED Talks, Kate Henshaw, ASA, Linda Ikeji, Hakeem salaam, Mi

Book Love: The God of Small Things1 comment

Fiona wrote 1 week ago: “When she looked at herself in her wedding photographs, Ammu felt the woman that looked back at her … more →

Tags: Book Love, book love, Books, Fiona McColl, The God Of Small Things, Wrongside

A Call for Non-Cooperation: So that Teachers Are Not Foreigners in Their Own Profession7 comments

plthomasedd wrote 1 week ago: Gandhi’s views on enhancing the vernaculars…so that Indians are “not foreigners in their own l … more →

Tags: ccss, VAM, Education reform, education reform movement, Gandhi, Non Cooperation, Randi Weingarten, Anthony Cody

~ Words To Live By: "Once You See It ..."

Linda Anselmi wrote 2 weeks ago: “… once you see it, you can’t unsee it. And once you’ve seen it, keeping quiet, saying n … more →

Tags: History, Miscellaneous, Quotes, Sharing knowledge, India, responsibilities of knowledge

To Fight Back: Non-Violence, Militant Feminism and Education4 comments

rad fag wrote 2 weeks ago: “How do people who are starving go on a hunger strike? How do people who have no money boycott … more →

Tags: class identity, Education, Conflict in the Classroom, Radical Feminism, Sexual Violence, Kashmir, armed resistance

Happy Small Things.

Jona Alday wrote 2 weeks ago: Sorry for being such a bitter balogney the past days. Sorry for not writing soon and for not writing … more →

Tags: writing, Life, Inspiration, Writing #2, It's more fun in the Philippines, iced coffee, Random, List, Ironman 3

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

simplydelete wrote 3 weeks ago: This book was chosen by chance. I found it one day on my fiance’s book shelf. It doesn’t … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, Ayemenem, Book Review, India, The God Of Small Things

Reminder: Impactful Ink Book Club Meeting April 30!

eunoic wrote 3 weeks ago: We’re reading The God of Small Things. … more →

Tags: Arts+Media, Gender, health, Law, Religion, News, poverty, Arts, Literature

"To love, to be loved..."

Sammy Dizon wrote 3 weeks ago: This quote speaks to me in so many ways. How often do we forget the significance of our own lives … more →

Tags: Inspiration, Quote Of The Day

On Rape Culture (and the Peddling of Convenient Theories by Armchair Critics)5 comments

Sampurna wrote 3 weeks ago: As I settled down to write yet another nauseating article on the repeated rapes being reported acros … more →

Tags: Flotsam, India, rape, ruchira gupta, Delhi

Episode 27: Don’t Glorify the Dead, Activate for the Living

Progressive Podcast Australia wrote 3 weeks ago: Listen to this episode and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes here. You can also listen to this epis … more →

Tags: Abortion, activism, ANZAC Day, GEORGE ORWELL, Margaret Thatcher, militarism, Minimalism, neoliberalism, Politics

Arundhati Roy: Jungles of resistance

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 3 weeks ago: April 16, 2013. Source: Making Contact Radio Renowned Indian author Arundhati Roy says her country’s … more →

Tags: Climate Justice, Independent Media, media, India, Résistance, Imperialism

Ant and Grosshopper - Indian Version of story - too good and fact2 comments

Brijesh B. Mehta wrote 4 weeks ago: Original Story: The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and laying up … more →

Tags: Current Issues, Politics, India, ant, Grasshopper, united states, CNN, NDTV, Medha Patkar

Review: Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things is NOT a small book6 comments

amyrosemary14 wrote 1 month ago: Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things  is one of those books that seems to come along once i … more →

Tags: Review, Novel, Literature, Book Review, God of Small Things, Kerala, caste, India, Love Laws

Epic Quotes IX & X

devin howard wrote 1 month ago: “Judging from what is happening in Russia and China, and even Vietnam, communist and capitalis … more →

Tags: HOPE, Heroes, Quotes, Politics, Society, India


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