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Activist, writer K J Baby dies at 70

September 01, 2024

Activist, writer K J Baby dies at 70

Baby was the founder of Kanavu, an experimental alternative school.

January 28, 2024
Climate activists throw soup at 'Mona Lisa' painting in Paris' Louvre museum

Video footage showed two women flinging red soup at Leonard da Vinci's masterpiece, to gasps from onlookers.
May 16, 2023
Cannes Film Festival director open to climate activists on red carpet

The Writers Guild of America began a work stoppage on May 2 after failing to reach a new labour agreement with higher pay from Hollywood studios such as Netflix and Walt Disney.
December 25, 2022
Film, documentary maker KP Sasi passes away

The majority of Sasi's documentaries were based on social issues. He won the national award for best director for 'Ilayum Mullum' (Leaves and Thorns) in 1994.
December 11, 2022
Pioneering Black feminist Dorothy Pitman Hughes dies at 84

Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a pioneering Black feminist, child welfare advocate and community activist who co-founded Ms Magazine with Gloria Steinem and appeared with her in one of the most iconic photos of the second-wave feminist movement, has died. She was 84.
November 02, 2022
Women's rights activist, SEWA founder Ela Bhatt passes away

Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA), founded by Padma Bhushan recipient Ela Bhatt, is one of the largest organisations of informal workers in the world.
October 27, 2022
Kerala to pay Rs 1,000 to over 5,000 endosulfan victims in Kasaragod

Daya Bai, 82, held a 17-day hunger strike, demanding better treatment facilities for endosulfan victims.

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