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Queer MarketThe Anti-Racism MarketThe Protest MarketThe Mommy MarketThe Green Market

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Professor with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sherry Turkle has continuously

explored the psychological dimension to human-technology relationship. In this age of simulated

sex, 3D and sociable robots, are we headed for a new meltdown? Have we lost conversation? A ten minute time that stretched into a half an hour long

conversation, that could have stretched further, if not for the appointment diary.

By Pritha Kejriwal and Sayan Bhattacharya.

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man who entered the Indian territory via Nepal from Pakistan administered Kashmir with his wife and daughter in tow, in March 2013, stands accused of being part of a terror plot as a supposed member of a fidayeen squad that was readying to attack Delhi during the festival of Holi. The Delhi police which arrested Liyaqat Shah, has been unable to explain several lacunae in its story – from the questions related to the indicted man’s family members, to the hotel where ammunition was found dumped by Liyaqat’s alleged accomplice, who, interestingly also left the key at the manager’s desk.

Jammu and Kashmir police has admitted that it knew about Liyaqat Shah’s arrival as part of an amnesty policy Jammu and Kashmir government announced and okayed two years back, for the benefit of those youth who went across the Line of Control (LoC) after 1989 to seek arms training but are not involved in any cases, and no longer with any militant organization. Even as the chief minister endorsed the same, he decided to prod the Centre to hand over Liyaqat’s case to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

Does a former militant have a way

back? Is he allowed to have one?

By Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal.

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CURIOUS CASE OF LIYAQAT

SHAH

Illustration by Sourav Bhattacharya

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A man uses a public lavatory decorated with female mannequins at Sao Joao da Madeira shopping centre in northern Portugal. REUTERS/Jose Manuel Ribeiro


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Watering the postmodern desert of utter and complete consumerism...

Queer MarketThe Anti-Racism Market

The Protest MarketThe Mommy Market

The Green Market


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he conversation floated from the efficacy of gender neutral pronouns to Amitabh B a c h c h a n ’ s misogyny to rape and the visual medium and then it halted at sindoor,

Farah Khan’s ek chutki sindoor. My friend wondered whether given the deeply patriarchal connotations of this symbol of married bliss, and given her feminist orientations, would it be expected of her that she should not apply sindoor after marriage. But what if she wants to don it just as she highlights her eyelashes or applies kohl? What if the vermillion augments the bright red of her dupatta? Why can’t she wear it, solely for its aesthetic appeal?

M A R K E T

QUEERT

By Sayan Bhattacharya

COVER STORY


ANTI-RACISM T H E

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By Shubham Nag

COVER STORY


PROTESTMARKET

ou’ve seen these powerful images of the hoi polloi assembling on squares, united by the banners and slogans. It’s a pity that such moments of light, outrage and eyes full of hope occur so rarely in history. But in times where everything is sold, ranging from pleasure

in 20 exotic positions to meteorite rocks, these moments can be bought as well: Teaching, marketing and blueprinting the revolt.

The US-based Albert Einstein Institute with Gene Sharp, the modern Guru of non-violent protest at the helm, have shared their well practiced methods online for free. In the leaflet 198 methods of nonviolent action (available in 32 languages) are listed. You can get inspirations from “Skywriting and earthwriting” all the way to “Overloading

By Christoph Trost

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By Nidhi Dugar Kundalia


apitalism used the global warming scam to make massive profits through ‘green’ products for decades. And now, through the Cap-and-trade gambling joint.

ECO CON

“There is a very common mind-set right now which

holds that all that we’re going to need to do to avert the large-scale planetary catastrophes…is make slightly different shopping decisions.” Alex Steffen, planetary futurist.

In 1972, the Club of Rome commissioned a book called The Limits to Growth. Its writers unearthed computer simulations of unchecked economic and population growth on the environment, predicting catastrophe within

the century.

The modeling was criticized for being simplistic, presupposing what it set out to prove, but the damage was done. Environmentalism was born.

Green awareness exploded as capitalists stirred up consumers into a frenzy to buy ‘green’ products. (In the US, eco-anxiety is a diagnosed disorder – when the mind reels at the thought of choosing between paper and plastic, and if the decision will result in catastrophe.) “Consumer demand has got us into the current mess, now it has to get us out again.” The justification, described by psychiatrist and environmental writer Richard Gosden. “Consumers must inform themselves about major environmental problems and then, by being cross-informed through product labeling, should only select environmentally benign products.”

But buying Green is an oxymoron, capitalism’s expansionist

GREENMARKET

By Joykrit Mitra

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HellerZoëI N T E R V I E W

Not one to mince words, be it through her widely popular book reviews, which are often more readable than the texts they review or her complex characters and their ambiguous motives, novelist and journalist Zoë Heller talks books, movies, Feminism, Rushdie, 50 shades, religion and more. By Sayan Bhattacharya.


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