In the film American Fiction, the culturally refined Dr Theolonius “Monk” Ellison, an African American author and professor, is struggling to get his highbrow novels published: the white gatekeepers to the literary world believe they are not “Black enough” and would rather put out ghetto stereotypes. So he writes a spoof novel, set in the hood, under the pseudonym Stagg R. Leigh. He calls it FUCK and pretends to be an author whose identity needs to be protected because he's on the run from (…)

- Issues / Liberalism (Eng), Racism/Race/Antiracism (Eng), Woke / Cultural Wokeism, Movies / Films

LAHORE: Thousands of female domestic workers endure harassment, abuse, and exploitation due to inadequate legal safeguards, entrenched societal norms, and economic vulnerability in the country.
In a press statement, Arooma Shahzad, secretary general of the Domestic Workers Union (DWU) Monday highlighted importance of legal recognition of female domestic workers. Arooma said despite their essential contributions to households across the country, these women often face mistreatment that goes (…)

- Women & Labor (Pakistan) / Rights (women), Domestic workers / Domestic labour, DWU (Pakistan), PUWF (Pakistan), Rights (Labor/Labour)

To counter this event, a coalition of over 50 progressive organisations is organising a three-day event named the ‘Bahutva Samskruthi Utsava'.
Bengaluru: The Kottala Basaveshwara Education Society runs a dozen schools and colleges, including a tailoring class and a gym, in Kalaburagi district in northern Karnataka. The Society, a minor presence in the educational map of the district, is preparing to celebrate its golden jubilee late this month at a scale that has no precedence in the (…)

- Fundamentalism, communalism, extreme right, secularism (India) / Hindutva / Hindu Rashtra