Projects tagged
South Asia
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Kind Coins Pakistan, Kids for Peace School and Peace Centre
Read more: Kind Coins Pakistan, Kids for Peace School and Peace CentreDear Team Please find below the links of the video and detail of Kind Coins Pakistan, Kids for Peace Pakistan School and Peace Centre, hope you will publish it on your website and circulate it at large, your this publication…
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Graffiti on Garbage
Read more: Graffiti on GarbageDelhi- based graffiti artist who goes by the name Daku went around South Delhi, one of the poshest places in the city, and painted on overflowing garbage cans. It is both a call to the civic bodies to clear the…
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Pothole Activism
Read more: Pothole ActivismBaadal Nanjundaswamy, a Bangalore based artist who works at an advertising agency uses his art to embarrass the civic authorities into fixing the potholes that litter the roads of Bangalore. When people’s complaint to civic authorities about the state of…
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Stop Sign Takeover
Read more: Stop Sign TakeoverDaku is an Indian graffiti artist that engages in street art with political and social meaning. Little else is known about the elusive artist, due to the illegal nature of his work. The name “Daku” literally translates to bandit or…
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A Long March to Save Asia’s Largest Mangrove Forest In Bangladesh
Read more: A Long March to Save Asia’s Largest Mangrove Forest In BangladeshA group of women walked from Barisal, Bangladesh to Khulna to join up with the long march that was crossing the city that day. By long, I really mean long: this march traveled a distance of 145 kms, walking most…
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Meet to Sleep
Read more: Meet to SleepMeet To Sleep, a campaign started by Blank Noise, asks citizens from all across India to come to different public spaces like parks, and sleep there in order to take back free spaces without being afraid for their safety. The…
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Badass Indian Pinups
Read more: Badass Indian Pinups“Badass Indian Pinups” is a series of paintings by Indo-Canadian artist Nimisha Bhanot, that features paintings of Indian women being confident and sexually liberated. Bhanot was in art school in 2012, when the gang rape of Jyoti Singh Pandey took…
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Rap Against Rape
Read more: Rap Against RapeUnder the moniker BomBaebs, Pankhuri Awasthi and Uppekha Jain rap about rape, cultural stereotypes, religious biases, and hypocrisy surrounding sexism and gender biases in India. They open the video with a disclaimer, warning that “This video doesn’t have any explicit…
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Kiss of Love
Read more: Kiss of LoveThe Kiss of Love campaign in India is a non violent protest against moral policing. It started out as a Facebook page but gained momentum across India when a mob of conservative, right-wing party members attacked and demolished a coffee…
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Small World Machines
Read more: Small World MachinesA new, three-minute ad by Coca-Cola, “Small World Machines,” starts with a relatively straightforward premise: India and Pakistan do not get along so well. It ends with the promise of peace: “Togetherness, humanity, this is what we all want, more…