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Todi Mill Todi Mill Fantasy is a piece of theatre that straddles the line between absurdist humour and sharp social commentary, leaving the audience both amused and reflective. Set within the confines ...

In 1980, if you went to Mumbai you would find the city full of mill workers. From 7 am to 3 pm they worked in the mill, and at 3 pm you wouldn’t find a single other person on the railways except for ...

The relative stagnation of the textile sector in Maharashtra has dragged the state’s contribution to industrial employment and output at the national level. Moreover, the rate of reduction in the ...

His stories give an insight into the life and struggle of ordinary working-class people who do not have any ownership or entrepreneurial privileges in urban cities, from a “one among them” point of ...

Lancets-Benzes-Ford Icons-Innovas-Scorpios-Santros-and-Maruti 800s alike rushed in like microbes, as if sucked into the maw of a constrictor taking an agonisingly long breath. Bright white-crisply ...

The 1982–83 textile workers’ strike was a local symptom and an early episode in the political, economic, and social transformations that spanned the globe in the last quarter of the 20th century.

During this period, villages marked by fields, fishing communities and abattoirs in the central parts of Bombay, such as Parel, Byculla, Sion, Mahim, and Bandra—as seen in rare and crucial glimpses ...

The life of Basvant Giryappa Kamble (1938–2005), a Dalit textile worker in Mumbai’s Girangaon—mill district—is examined to highlight the intersection of caste and class in the labour movement.

The first sentence of the report expresses the hope that “Future historians may well decide that the crucial phenomenon of our times is the massive urbanisation that is engulfing the Third World” (NCU ...

Even after more than four decades, the ruling classes still invoke the memories of the 1982–83 textile strike as a tactic to scare the organised, protesting or striking workers. “Look how that strike ...

The millworkers’ strike of 1982–83 was at least a decade in making, if not more. Multiple interlinked political and economic ...