Ephemera, archiving and accessibility
By Subhradeep Chatterjee
Subhradeep Chatterjee on his labour of love, the ‘Ephemeriad Project – Archiving Temporality’
Tagged Under: Disability
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Jul '20Government betrays regressive intent in pitching disability rights against corporate interests
By Dr. Nandini Ghosh
Dr. Nandini Ghosh on the recent government move to dilute the offences and penal provisions in the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 and the...
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May '20Epidemic of wins and losses over viruses (and disabilities)
By Ishan Chakraborty
Ishan Chakraborty opens up about multiple distresses as a person with disabilities during the coronavirus lockdown but wishes not to be crowned a ‘hero’
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Mar '20Look, there’s something subaltern about this graffiti!
By Chandrima Mukhopadhyay, Subhradeep Chatterjee, Utsa Ghosh
Jadavpur University students set Braille graffiti example, turn walls into bridges for inclusion
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Feb '20Hope makes a good breakfast. Sip N Bite does it better
By Duncan Rice
Duncan Rice is bowled over by the breakfast and motivation served up at café Sip N Bite
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May '19CPI(M)’s disability outreach through print, sound, sign language sets precedent
By Rith Das
Rith Das reports (with inputs from Pawan Dhall) on CPI(M)’s recent disability rights meeting
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Jan '19For that mental connect over cake and coffee
By Jia Mata
Jia Mata was at café Crust & Core to start off our new column 'Thought for Food'
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Jan '19Conversations in disabilities, diversities in conversations
By Shampa Sengupta
Shampa Sengupta on a round-up of positive developments for disability rights in end 2018
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Nov '18What’s with the pacific calm?
By Pawan Dhall
Post-Section 377 verdict, where’s the impatience to demand more rights, asks Pawan Dhall
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Sep '18Awakening disabled desires
By Sujoy
Coming out of self-victimization helped Sujoy discover a whole new sexual world
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Mar '18Campaign for right to travel by railways
By Disability rights organizations in India
A campaign organized by disability rights groups for the ‘right to travel by railways’ should be an eye-opener for all train travellers who don’t realize who’s getting left behind or...
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Feb '18Match-making between dating and disabilities
By Ishan Chakraborty, Prosenjit Pal
Ishan Chakraborty narrates his experience of attending an innovative meet-up in Kolkata that aimed to help people with disabilities find friends and dates
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Oct '17Universal design: Your life depends on it (part 2)
By Pawan Dhall, Kaustav Manna
Concluding part of Pawan Dhall’s chat with Mainak Ghosh, Associate Professor, Architecture, Jadavpur University on how universal design relates not just to products and built spaces, but also to our...
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Sep '17Universal design: Your life depends on it (part 1)
By Pawan Dhall, Kaustav Manna
Could there be anything more universal than ‘universal design’? Pawan Dhall chats with Mainak Ghosh, who is Associate Professor, Architecture with Jadavpur University, and discovers how it relates not just...
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Aug '17‘Rakhi’ for a bus ride, when the law comes untied
By Shampa Sengupta
Shampa Sengupta on the rakhi as a means of sensitizing public transport workers to the concerns of persons with disabilities in Kolkata Rabindranath Tagore taught Bengal how to use the rakhi as a...