Category Archives: Art of Resistance

Following the dictum “Cultural revolution must precede political revolution”, we are striving to create the scope for an alternative cultural space, which can offer resistance to all forms of coercion, and can also serve as a medium for conducting non-violent, horizontal dialogical exchanges.

Get Well Soon: Greetings to Mr. Piramal, DHFL-CoC, DSK Legal and the BJP

The blog post is a sarcastic open letter wishing a speedy recovery to Ajay Piramal, the DHFL Committee of Creditors (CoC), DSK Legal, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), mocking their alleged roles in a financial scam tied to the acquisition of Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Limited (DHFL) by Piramal Capital and Housing Finance Limited (PCHFL) through what the author claims was an unjust Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code resolution process. It accuses them of colluding in a politically backed scheme that favored Piramal, devastating fixed deposit and NCD holders, and uses biting humor to highlight their supposed moral and legal failings while sarcastically hoping they “heal” from public scrutiny and legal challenges. Referencing the author’s activism against this perceived crony capitalism, it frames their actions as causing widespread distress among DHFL victims, blending irony with a call for accountability and restitution for those affected by the allegedly fraudulent and exploitative resolution.

Urging for a Free and Just Society: Web-based Social Movements (#OBMA_Talks -4)

Posted on 22/09/2023 (15:59 hrs) VIEW HERE: What is a Social Movement? A social movement can be defined as an agitational expression of collective behaviour. It targets some aspect or the whole of the social structure and the functioning of that structure through various institutionally-sanctioned norms, mores, customs, processes etc. The elements of a socialContinue reading “Urging for a Free and Just Society: Web-based Social Movements (#OBMA_Talks -4)”

OCCUPY INTERNET TO RESIST PIRAMAL’S ADVERSE POSSESSION OF DHFL

Posted on 14/09/2023 (GMT 17:00 hrs) Updated on 28/09/2023 (GMT 16:16 hrs) Dedicated to Mrinal Sen… Remembering the movie “Chorus” (1974): This movie is about the crumbling of the bureaucratic apparatus as part of the controlling strata/mediator of the surveillance society in the context of the capitalist economy by the mass mobilization of workers, farmersContinue reading “OCCUPY INTERNET TO RESIST PIRAMAL’S ADVERSE POSSESSION OF DHFL”

Immunization Against Plutocracy: Rajib Chowdhury’s Selected Artworks

Posted on 22/06/2023 (GMT 11:00 hrs) About Rajib Chowdhury Rajib Chowdhury is a Kolkata, West Bengal born practicing visual artist lives and works in Baroda, Gujarat. He completed his Bachelor’s in Painting from Govt. College of Art & Craft, Kolkata (1991 to 1996) and studied Printmaking at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.University, Baroda (1997Continue reading “Immunization Against Plutocracy: Rajib Chowdhury’s Selected Artworks”

The Lightning Should Have Fallen on Me: the Story of an Insignificant Indian

Posted on 10/06/2023 (GMT 10:30 hrs) ## PLACE: INDIA, A WOUNDED CIVILIZATION ⤡ DATE: xx/xx/2023 AUTHOR: A moribund intellectual of a decadent society ## As I flipped through the worn-out pages of Ghalib’s shayaris, I stumbled upon this particular piece: Alternative Translation of the Shayari: In the cage, telling me the events of the garden,Continue reading “The Lightning Should Have Fallen on Me: the Story of an Insignificant Indian”

Oh King, Are you Hearing Impaired? An Open Letter to the Prime Minister of India

Posted on 26/05/2023 (GMT 2:00 hrs) Updated on 15/06/2023 (GMT 19.58 hrs.) Dearest Modiji,  Hello, hello, hello, Dear Government, can’t you hear my cries? Hey, superrich ruling party, are you hearing impaired? Last 3 and half years, we, the DHFL Victims⤡ are suffering from different psychosomatic disorders—do you know that? Oh, I do not expect knowledge orContinue reading “Oh King, Are you Hearing Impaired? An Open Letter to the Prime Minister of India”

Oh Thou His Highness, Keep Your Promise Please! (Video)

This compilation of videos is an attempt to perform an act of subversion by pointing out the uncontradictory contradictions/aporia in the ruling party’s discursive formations by correlating them with their adjoining performance. There is a heaven and hell difference between what they speak and what they do in reality. An appeal is made to the ruling party: they must utilize their astronomical assets for the victims of bankruptcies (viz. DHFL) by following their leader, Hon. PM’s enunciation.