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It is now a month since India went into complete lockdown on 26 March to contain the spread of Covid-19. As non-essential economic activity has come to a standstill, the lockdown has hit millions of people working in the informal sector. Although the Government has announced some relief schemes (...)
The exemption granted to sectors such as mining and steel may have more to do with sustaining large companies which are already facing losses.
India is under an emergency lockdown. One big question that will be asked for some time to come is if this extreme measure could have been prevented. (...)
US-based researcher’s survey of migrant workers in Lucknow finds that police repression induces new forms of solidarities rooted in shared experiences.
Does police repression spark or quell everyday cooperation within frequently repressed poor urban communities? Are repression’s effects limited (...)
Ayesha Renna, the young woman student from Jamia Milia Islamia University, Delhi – who became the face of anti-CAA students’ protests in India was in Kolkata to speak at the People’s Literary Festival organized by Bastar Solidarity Network (Kolkata Chapter) on 29th February. Sudarshana (...)
The anti-CAA/NPR/NRC movement in Bihar has started impacting political developments in the state ahead of forthcoming assembly elections scheduled to be held later this year. Anish Ankur writes from Patna.
The anti-CAA/NPR/NRC movement in Bihar has started impacting political developments in (...)
The communal violence that erupted in the National Capital Region of Delhi on February 24th,and carried on for about a week, marks another orchestrated step in the Sangh’s strategy of deliberately polarising the Indian public along Hindu-Muslim lines. In the past such politically motivated (...)
In the last two decades, there has been a proliferation of bands and individuals that have used rap and rock music to point attention to political issues in different parts of the country. Sahapedia looks at the emergence of rap as a potent and popular musical form in the tradition of protest (...)
Songs, which have occupied a prominent place in the anti-CAA protest movements, draw from a tradition whose history can be traced back to the late anti-colonial period.
Ever since December 15, 2019, when anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) protests started in full swing, several images (...)
India’s student movement is one of the main forces challenging the government of Narendra Modi. But the movement against Hindu nationalism needs to take root even deeper in civil society.
For the past couple of months, India’s leading media outlets have been camped out in the vicinity of the (...)
The author addressed a gathering at Jantar Mantar in Delhi on Sunday.
Beloved friends, comrades and my fellow writers,
This place where we are gathered today is only a short bus ride away from where four days ago a fascist mob, fired up by speeches made by members of the Ruling Party, backed (...)
Veteran feminist Vasanth Kannabiran traces the history of the women’s movement in India through the history of her own life. Her book Taken At The Flood analyses and reflects on the victories achieved by the movement thus far, and the leaps and bounds that are yet to be travelled. Shaheen Bagh’s (...)
This is the text of the 2020 Clark Lecture in English Literature, instituted by Trinity College, Cambridge. Arundhati Roy is the first Indian writer invited to deliver it.
Thank you for inviting me to deliver this, the Clark Lecture, now in its one hundred and thirty-second year. When I (...)
The AAP leader has given no indication that if the opportunity arises, he will be inclined to roll back any of the policies that vitiated India in recent years.
Arvind Kejriwal’s coinage, Kaam ki rajniti or politics of ‘doing’, is actually a moniker for the politics of welfarism. It is also the (...)
Approaching the documentary as a sociological text, Zeeshan Husain discuss what he found to be the most important facets of the Dalit movement portrayed in the film.
Sangharsh, meaning strife, is a film which deals with the Dalit movement in the late 1990s. The film takes place in Kanpur city (...)
How long can a movement sustain itself without a distinct leadership and an organised agenda of protest?
It is, indeed, the best of times, and the worst of times. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government has pushed a Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and now hopes to impose a National (...)
The first murder came as a shock; the second suggested there might be a larger plot; by the third there was talk of government collusion; and when the fourth happened one felt it would not be the last. The victims—Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare, M.M. Kalburgi, and Gauri Lankesh—were all (...)
There is little doubt that the smaller stakeholders and businesses within India’s informal economy have the most to lose, and yet their voices are not being heard.
“Concluding RCEP [Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership] this year is the region’s ‘collective interest and highest priority’”, (...)
About 100 animals transport visitors along kilometre-long cobbled path to the city’s iconic Amber Fort
Animal rights protesters took to the streets on bicycles in the Indian city of Jaipur on Sunday, demanding an end to elephants being used to carry tourists to one of the country’s top (...)
Paying the bribe – almost 20% of the cost of the house to be built – is depriving families in Uttar Pradesh of housing under the Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana-Gramin.
Lalitpur, (Uttar Pradesh): In Sarumal village in Uttar Pradesh’s Lalitpur district, residents claim that they are being deprived of (...)
Till 2021, party supporters suggest that the CPI(M) will stay in the shadows and watch the BJP bring down the TMC government.
To those unfamiliar with Bengal, the archetypal Bengali is an ideologically-driven Marxist (usually male), immersed in a world of lofty ideas.
Over decades, West (...)
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