Inside the Pages 1. Foreword note Arul Selvan…………………………………………....................5 2. From the Editor Nidhin Nath K A…………………………………………............6 3. A Day Spent Working with Independent Media Souradeep Roy…………………………………………...............7 4.Cover Story - Campus magazines speaks Aarshbarath Victorian Samskaram Arathy Ashok………………………………………………….....9 The politics of resistance Jishnu EN………………………………………………………...10 All the questions against intolerence were vile Sree Shamim……………………………………………………..13 5. Keralities have a most corrupted film concept : Dr. Biju(Interview Dr.Biju) Nidhin Nath K A…………………………………………………14 6. I and You Ajila PR……………………………………………………….....17 7. Tribal reaction on social media to mainstream media Portrayal of tribes Samarjit Kachari…………………………………………………18 7. My Films are my Politics - Rajeev Ravi jishnu M Kumar………………………………………………….20 9. Ivormadom -The polluting belief Dileep S…………………………………………….....................22 10. IFFK: The alternative of change for alienated Jithn KC…………………………………………………….........24 11. From the land of war(interview -Juniad sarieddeen) Nidhin Nath K A…………………………………………………26 12. We are born to resist - liana badr Nidhin Nath K A…………………………………………………31 13. Blocking at the entrance: need for reformation in JNU entrance Nitheesh Narayan………………………………………………..32 14. The tale of a hole community - Vidhu vincent Ajila PR………………………………………………….............36 15. Cross boarder (Poem) Ra Sh………………………………………….............................37 Theyyam 4 Foreword Note Experimenting with ideas Public Universities in India, as centres of critique, inquiry, and discussion, are losing their critical space in the contemporary society, alarms EPW in its recent editorial. Dissent and resistance are the essential moral legal obligation of higher education centres like Universities. University is a contesting site for ideas, where curious minds explore, articulate, and debate a spectrum of ideas, which have been easily labelled otherwise, by the fanatics recently. The Confucian ideal of ‘I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand’, is the guiding principle for a course on Media Specialisation, being offered by the Pondicherry University, where the students are trained to produce experimental creations, not bothering to cross the conventional borders being levied by the traditional intellectuals and the academia. Indeed, the Department of Electronic Media and Mass Communication (DEMMC), of the Pondicherry University, facilitates its learners a comfortable space during their course work, where freedom to question everything has been made a Dr. S Arul Selvan way of life. DEMMC trains its students to challenge bigoted views and attitudes, in order to produce diverse and alternate Faculty Adviser positions which normally are not feasible through a corporate Associate Professor media controlled social order. Department of EMMC Nidhin Nath has independently produced a magazine on t Pondicherry University Freedom of Expression. Both of them grew amidst a series of protests, the Pondicherry University has been witnessing for the past few months, starting with fighting the then Vice-Chancellor who occupied the position with fake claims of her credentials, raising voice against the banning of the students magazine, seeking justice for a Dalit student who was denied admission to PhD program, raising voice against a politician who spoke against south Indians, etc. Hence, the contents of the magazine obviously reflect the essential mood and ambience of the campus. Like all experimental productions, I hope, this creation would give an insightful reading to the readers. I congratulate Nidhin Nath for making more meaningful creations, by choice of their content, language, design and presentation. Theyyam 5 Editor Nidhin Nath K A From the editor Sub Editors Ajila PR JIshnu EN Theyyam is a politics. It is the politics of resistance against the caste and social oppression. Beyond all its aesthetics as an Photos art form, it has relevance in the history of protests O Ajith Kumar against the caste. The art form Theyyam has started, at the period where the feudal system was strong in Nidhin Nath KA the Kerala. Theyyam being an art form performed by marginalized Section, it is not allowed toenter the Translation temple. Although the scenario is like this, when the Anjali Krishna performer becomes theyyam after makeup then the performer will be deity. The ‘savarna’ comes to seek Ansiya Rahiman the blessing from ‘avarnna’. Here this magazine says the politics of marginalized. We are living in a situation where the Dalit’s are Cover page Design attacked day by day. Beef became a death certificate and rather than a food. Kashmiri people being attacked Illustrations by self-proclaimed nationalists every day. Media Sabari is standing for the majority who is powerful. It is biased. Adeeb Salim Media is neglecting the cry of common people for Jazila Lulu justice. These people are stamped as the ‘others’. We have to build a wall of resistance. We have to form the counter cultures of resistance. Design & Layout No more Dabolker, Pansare, Kulburgi and Nidhin Nath KA Mohemmad Akhlaq should be created. No more people should live with the holes of pellets in body and mind. Guidance We have to perform the Theyyam of resistance where Dr. S Arul Selvan the criticisms are considered as sedition and those who criticized will become anti-nationalists. We have to sing the songs of resistance……… Read online @ theyyamthemagazine.wordpress.com Theyyam 6 A Day Spent Working with “Independent Media” (Writter is part of the editorial collective of the Indian Writers’ Forum) Souradeep Roy I am travelling back after a day at work. There is a At a talk organised by this privileged editorial collective submission of a poem I have to respond to. I am going in association with another privileged university, the not to reject it but I am looking for words that can reject so privileged Bezwada Wilson, convener of the Sakai the poem. I want to reject the poem, not the person, and Karmachari Andolan, says that we could not eat with his treading through that line is more difficult than I thought it own hands after a day of manually scavenging shit. When to be. Since we run Indian Cultural Forum, and indulge in he left his house to start the movement, however, we did cultural politics, we must indulge in the “political poem”. not face the problem of hunger. I ate well in some other Most of the times, the submissions we receive for those are house, someone always offered me food; I was liberated definitely political, and definitely not a poem. when I decided to step out of my caste work, I was liberated Meanwhile, there’s another problem. We run with, what when I not at home. we call, an editorial collective, which means there are no “At Home and Outside” is the English translation of editors, sub editors, sub-dub editors, managing editors Rabindranath Tagore’s novel Ghare Baire. Later, a new and the like. Everyone has a say, everyone is equal, and translation was published by the name of The Home and sometimes, when tempers flare among members of the the World, and this title lived a longer life. I prefer “At collective, I wish there was someone who could simply Home and Outside” more. Where do we like to see the come and say, “That’s rubbish, you have to publish this, poor in this country? Toiling outside in the fields; working, not that. That’s rubbish.” The current debate is on a series working, working all the time. At home, if there is a home we are running now, called “Indian Memories of Meat”. to return to, they eat, if there is enough to eat. And I am quite One of the members feel that the tone is too light; we are sure they enjoy a nicely cooked meal as much we enjoy simply celebrating a non-issue. The issue is of livelihoods our own. Once, also while coming back from the office we lost because the state has given a free hand to gau rakshaks, booked an Ola cab. I asked my colleagues in the editorial mostly in North India, and particularly in the state of Uttar collective, where do you find good biryani near Munirka? Pradesh. What we have decided to follow is simply too The consensus was that you may find biryani in Munirka, jovial. How can we celebrate our food habits when people but your Bengali preference for potatoes in biryani cannot are attacked on the street? People are dying, dying! Death, be met anywhere. Suddenly, our driver jumped in: you a word that comes so close to our lives that we choose to have to do to Old Delhi. Then, he listed the places I have overlook it, and if you are in India, the more your privilege, to go to and the dishes n each of the hotels: Noori ki nahari the more the chances are of overlooking. Some people near Bara Hindu Rao; roasted fried chicken in Aslam and don’t have that luxury: death, or its possibility, overlooks Chicken Changezi in Shahid, Taufi biryani wala: all near their lives. Jama Masjid. Brilliant. I have met the perfect subaltern all But, we try to reason, we can still remember to find some independent media waits for. tell him we are doing a series laughter in our everyday lives. So what the Fascists are called “Indian Memories of Meat”. Will he be willing to here? We will, of course, out with our fangs open in the share some of his memories or recipes? Sure, he says, streets when the time comes, but is it sinful to remember and then lists his days with camel meat (not too good); that we can still have our moments of laughter. After all, pigeons; deer (don’t tell anyone, you’ll be jailed). Stop, I why are we so worried of beef if it didn’t taste the way say, I will publish meat recipes that are legal.