Solidarity and Action Against The HIV Infection in India (SAATHII), an NGO working to increase access to stigma-free rights through community support, hosted a workshop titled ‘Re-framing Stigma’ in New Delhi from January 22 to January 24th, 2020. Project Stigma sponsored by Birkbeck University and Wellcome Trust invited visual conversations between people living with HIV, activists, researchers, health workers and artists…
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The World Learns to Rock – Part III
America – The home of rock & roll The 1960s in America was all about anti-establishment youth movements and protests. This was the era of the Vietnam War with its attendant anti-war and anti-draft protests, the civil rights movement, labour rights movement, feminist rights and reactions against the corporate rat race. A spin off of…
The World Learns to Rock – Part II
by Arjun Ghosh On a fateful day in late 1959, a new group called Quarrymen was performing in the seaside town of Liverpool in England, when a young Paul McCartney came to watch them, to see his neighbour, John Lennon. After the show John and Paul hung out together and felt an immediate connection. Soon,…
I got the Blues
by Arjun Ghosh In the late 1950s a significant event happened quietly in the world of English music that was hardly noticed except by the blues cognoscenti. Radio Luxembourg started broadcasting a singer named Elvis Presley, till then largely unknown except in a limited audience in America. Some of the young English musicians or would…