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Diaspora groups from across the world also created a Twitter storm on January 8 with the hashtag #StopIndianMuslimGenocide to highlight the issue.
New Delhi: Indian diaspora from across the globe has expressed outrage over the failure of the Narendra Modi-led government to arrest those who (...)
New Delhi: Seventy-two years ago, the Constituent Assembly adopted the Constitution of India. Two months later, on January 26, 1950, the country’s Constitution came into effect. But how has the implementation of our constitutional rights and safeguards been going?
In high courts across the (...)
The onset of the pandemic has made the situation even more challenging.
India’s hunger situation is a serious cause for concern that needs the attention of policymakers at the highest level.
According to a 2015 World Bank report, malnutrition in India is two to seven times higher than other (...)
COVID-19 has worsened nutrition outcomes by disrupting crucial social support.
Amartya Sen once told Mahbub-ul-Haq, with whom he developed the Human Development Index (HDI), that he can “do a single, one-number indicator, but it will be vulgar”.
Mahbub ul-Haq replied: “Do an indicator that is (...)
Indian unions, including IndustriALL affiliates INMF and SMEFI, have successfully finalized a long-awaited wage agreement with Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) and Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL), benefitting more than 100,000 employees.
The wage agreement, concluded by the (...)
Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR) is one of the oldest human rights organisations in India. Formed in 1972, amid the “orgy of slaughter and brutal repression” unleashed by the Indian State on political activists, in the background of the Naxalbari uprising, APDR turns 50 this (...)
The omission is tantamount to neglecting threats to Indian democracy.
A secret blacklist of individuals and groups used to regulate speech across Facebook’s platforms, instituted by the company in 2012 in the face of growing public concerns over terrorists being recruited through the site – was (...)
A united movement of labour organizations and pro-people forces in needed in Karnataka for a complete workplace and citizenship rights of migrant workers.
What unites the city’s domestic workers, security guards, drivers, garment makers, construction workers and app-based service workers? One (...)
The respected academic, who has died aged 80, was a leading anti-caste campaigner and fought tirelessly for women’s rights
At the village of Kasegaon, in India’s rural western region of Maharashtra, huge crowds turned up for the funeral in August of a US-born, white sociologist whom many local (...)
The Covid-19 pandemic and its consequent lockdowns have caused schools in India to be closed for the last year and a half – notes Locked Out: Emergency Report on School Education. Published on September 6, 2021, the report discusses the disastrous effects of prolonged school closures on the (...)
Pramod Kumar’s book argues that the idea of new India as a transformation from secular nationalism to cultural nationalism, from mixed economy to market economy needs some serious rethinking.
How does contemporary social, political, and economic development in India provide legitimacy and (...)
From a people’s campaign on ’No Vote To BJP’ to a music video by a galaxy of artists against the party’s ’ideology of hatred’, the civil society in Bengal had a powerful impact in the recent polls.
In the keenly watched assembly election of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee brought the Modi-Shah (...)
The deadly eviction drive by Indian police forces in Assam on September 24, 2021 left 1300 families displaced, and led to the heinous public execution of an Indian citizen Moinul Haque, which was captured on video. In this prescient article from the May 2021 issue of the Caravan magazine, (...)
Around 23 paramilitary personnel were killed in an ambush with the Communist Party of India (Maoist) [CPI (Maoist)] guerrillas in central India’s Chhattisgarh on Saturday, April 3rd 2021. There are reports that a woman guerrilla of the Peoples’ Liberation Guerilla Army (PLGA) was also killed in (...)
A number of indicators have shown that India is still reeling under the adverse impact of lockdowns and job losses necessitated by the pandemic. Any cut in food subsidies will push millions into starvation.
On February 28, 2021, it was widely reported that Niti Aayog put out a paper arguing (...)
The violence was organised and systematic and it appears that the Indian authorities were complicit.
After the passing of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in December 2019, India’s Muslim community, civil rights activists and concerned citizens, occupied public spaces in an unprecedented (...)
They fear the laws could shrink employment and raise prices.
For 32-year-old Goldie, a tailor from Sri Muktsar Sahib district in Punjab, the slogan ‘Kisan Mazdoor Ekta’ – farmer-worker unity – rings true. “No one asks me if I am a Dalit,” he said. “Everyone eats together. It is a milestone for us.” (...)
It must be militantly waged and beautifully won.
I thank the organisers of the 2021 Elgar Parishad for inviting me to speak at this forum to mark what would have been Rohit Vemula’s 32nd birthday and the 1818 victory of the battle of Bhima Koregaon. Not far from here, Mahar troops fighting in (...)
Those behind the #IndiaSupportsCAA campaign, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself, pumped huge sums of money online to gather support for the government as anti-CAA protests swept across the country.
Social media today has gained significance as a ‘leader’ in leaderless movements. (...)
The political struggle against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s National Register of Citizens (NRC) exercise reached a new peak in West Bengal, the pioneer state in citizenship rights movement, after a relatively new organisation, Dalit Adivasi Minority Andolan League (DAMAL) Bangla, held its (...)
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