August 2014
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Raksha-bandhan (for tots and trees)
Describing Raksha Bandhan as a tradition crossing communities, the poster recounts the Karnavati-Humayun legend and Mahadev Mahato’s Taru Bandhan in Jharkhand, where trees get rakhis, and asks about girls born…
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Monsoon mood mellowing in Mumbai
A post of monsoon songs, led by Rim Jhim Ghire Sawan, with notes on lyricist Yogesh, and a quoted remark by Amarinder Singh blaming the failed monsoon on ‘El Modi’…
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“Why cant a woman be more like a man?”
After Erdogan called a woman journalist a ‘shameless woman’ who should know her place, the poster says it likes seeing women on top, to show they are equal in public…
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“Our children should at least look like us”
Reacting to a surrogacy scandal in Thailand and NRI preferences for fair-skinned adopted children, the poster asks whether fairness really makes a child ‘look like us’, recalls how browns are…
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No beards (burqas) on the (Xinjiang) bus
Prompted by Xinjiang bus bans on veils and beards, the poster restates its support for banning religion-inspired parties in a milder form, proposing an unenforceable directive principle that Indian parties…
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The story of Karim
The Yazidi flight from ISIS in 2014, told through one family, set beside the brutalities of Partition in South Asia.
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“Jews, your end is near”
After attacks on synagogues in Paris and Germany during Gaza protests, the poster urges Pakistanis in the UK and others to show empathy beyond their own grievances, drop Hitler admiration,…
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Hannibal re-born (in Jerusalem)
On the Israeli Hannibal Directive after a soldier was reported missing, the poster explains the name by retelling the story of Hannibal of Carthage, who drank poison rather than be…
