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Namo Nazi

Practitioner:
Namo Nazi

Date:
Oct 12 2013

Namo Nazi Namo Nazi is a group which is dedicated to the cause of spreading awareness about fascism. They create anti-fascist T-Shirts and say this about themselves: “One AntiFascist T-shirt is Worth a Thousand Votes. Please Buy Two. We design…

Cartoons Against Corruption

Practitioner:
Aseem Trivedi

Date:
Oct 12 2013

Cartoons Against Corruption is a cartoon based campaign by political cartoonist Aseem Trivedi to support anti corruption movement in India, best known for sharp hard hitting anti corruption cartoons. Using national emblems and current political news, Trivedi creates cartoons that…

In Search of Dignity and Justice

Practitioner:
Sudharak Olwe

Date:
Oct 12 2013

In Search of Dignity and Justice About 30,000 conservancy workers, also known as sweepers, are employed by the Great Bombay Municipal Corporation. These workers collect the city’s garbage, sweep the streets, clean the gutters, load and unload garbage trucks and…

The Sahmat Collective

Practitioner:
The Sahmat Collective

Date:
Oct 12 2013

In 1989, playwright, actor, and activist Safdar Hashmi was fatally attacked by political thugs while performing a street play outside of Delhi. His death led to the founding of Sahmat, an influential artist collective that has taken a consistent stance…

Farmer’s Haat (Market)

Practitioner:
Shweta Bhattad

Date:
Oct 12 2013

Farmer’s Haat As a part of the two weeks “Khoj International Art Residency” and “Good Artists of Pune,” Shweta Bhattad, along with others, organized a community art project, titled “Farmer’s Haat.” With the help of students from medical and engineering…

Dharavi Biennale

Practitioner:
Education and Health Action (SNEHA), Society for Nutrition

Date:
Oct 12 2013

Dharavi Biennale For the last two weeks, residents of Dharavi have been visiting an open exhibition that seeks to raise awareness of health issues. The 22 installations on display have been created entirely by the residents of Dharavi. They can…

Inmates Perform Valmiki Pratibha

Practitioner:
Alokananda Roy, Calcutta Presidency Jail

Date:
Oct 12 2013

Alokananda Roy walked into Calcutta’s Presidency Jail on International Women’s Day, 2007. The Indian classical dancer had been invited to watch female inmates perform, but it was the men who caught her eye. “They shook me,” she says. “Their body…

Liberation Caravan

Practitioner:
Bachpan Bachao Andolan, Kailash Satyarthi

Date:
Oct 12 2013

Mukti Caravan, the Campaign on Wheels, is a mobile cultural group of former child bonded labourers. Started by the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save Childhood Movement), a movement started by now Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi, it involves activists visiting villages to…

Crocodile in Water, Tiger on Land

Practitioner:
Crocodile in Water, Tiger on Land

Date:
Oct 12 2013

Crocodile in Water, Tiger on Land Crocodile in Water, Tiger on Land is a series of black and white comic strip that takes a sharp sniper-shots at India’s myriad idiosyncrasies. There is a new strip available every Monday. Despite the…

Pink Chaddi Campaign

Practitioner:
and Forward Women, Consortium of Pub-going, Loose

Date:
Oct 12 2013

In late January 2009, a group of 40 members of right-wing Hindu group Sri Ram Sena attacked women and men in a pub in the Indian city of Mangalore. They were upset with the women for engaging in behavior they…