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Ilina & Binayak Sen

Ilina & Binayak Sen

A paediatrician and human rights activist, Binayak Sen is the vice-president of People’s Union for Civil Liberties. His wife Ilina Sen, who is a professor at Tata Institute of Social Sciences and Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University, is also a human rights activist and an academician.

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Farewell, fair friend

Farewell, fair friend

We deeply mourn our friend Praful Bidwai, a renowned columnist, who passed away in Amsterdam last week....

By Ilina & Binayak Sen July 12, 2015
Lyrics of liberation

Lyrics of liberation

Chhattisgarh’s well-known and much-loved ‘lok shayar’ (people’s bard) Faguram Yadav died on May 7. He...

By Ilina & Binayak Sen June 14, 2015
Cup of starvation

Cup of starvation

There is a common perception that the condition of workers in the organised sector is, in general,...

By Ilina & Binayak Sen March 17, 2015
Moving testimonies

Moving testimonies

We were fortunate to be able to view filmmaker Amar Kanwar’s installation at a group showing of...

By Ilina & Binayak Sen March 17, 2015
Forgotten legacy, forlorn reality

Forgotten legacy, forlorn reality

Since 1991, September 28 has been observed by the toiling people of Chhattisgarh as the shahadat diwas...

By Ilina & Binayak Sen March 17, 2015
Healthy deliberations

Healthy deliberations

The Cochrane Collaboration is an international not-for-profit organisation that consists of a network...

By Ilina & Binayak Sen March 17, 2015
Fast and spurious

Fast and spurious

Hearts bleed for the scandalous deaths of women following mass sterilisation at Bilaspur, even as...

By Ilina & Binayak Sen March 17, 2015
Christmas in Kolkata

Christmas in Kolkata

After many years, one is struck by the mood of general festivity that accompanies Christmas in Kolkata....

By Ilina & Binayak Sen March 17, 2015
Stuff sans fluff

Stuff sans fluff

The 'Cinema of Resistance' movement began in 2006 as a protest against glitzy film festivals. The CoR...

By Ilina & Binayak Sen March 17, 2015
Hope in the time of hate

Hope in the time of hate

The bombing of Palestine seems to have opened the floodgates on a new cycle of barbaric cruelty if we...

By Ilina & Binayak Sen March 16, 2015
Lady Pluck

Lady Pluck

The 17th Pritilata Waddedar Memorial lecture was recently organised at the School of Women's...

By Ilina & Binayak Sen March 28, 2015
Revolutionaries, revisited

Revolutionaries, revisited

The encounter with Pritilata Waddedar last month was followed by further exploration of the lives of...

By Ilina & Binayak Sen May 10, 2015