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, by AKHTAR Aasim Sajjad
India’s major communist parties—once stalwart champions of anti-imperialism and peace—have abandoned their traditional anti-war stance to support the Modi government’s military actions against Pakistan. This capitulation to state nationalism represents not just a tactical shift, but a profound (…)
, by Alternative Viewpoint (IN)
We believe in revolutionary and democratic socialism, not the sterile, hierarchical bureaucracies that so often undermine the aspirations of working people. We believe that the struggle for socialism is fundamentally a struggle for freedom from all forms of exploitation, oppression and (…)
, by HASNAIN Aseem, SRIVASTAVA Abhilasha
In the West, vegetarianism is an act of rebellion. In India, it’s largely driven by conformity to traditional social norms.
The many shades of being vegetarian in India: a popular forward on social media.
To the world, India is often known as the land of Gandhi, spiritualism, and yoga – (…)
, by JOHN Arshu, KRISHNAN Vidya
Deadly Indian cough syrups in The Gambia and beyond point to shocking disparities in drug regulation for the world’s rich and poor, with the World Health Organisation failing to protect vulnerable countries
EBRIMA SAGNIA had the patient look of a man who had spoken to a lot of journalists. At (…)
, by ROY Jhelum
ON AUGUST 14, 2024 at 11:55 pm, the streets of Bengal, usually deserted by this hour, were packed with Indian women claiming their half of the sky. At the approach of the country’s 77th “Independence Day” celebration they made the night their own by demanding an end to the rape culture that (…)
, by RAO Menaka
Women have little sexual and personal autonomy but bear the burden and blame of managing their reproductive health.
In 2021, 30-year-old Radhika* got pregnant. The Delhi resident had two children and did not want a third. She was taking 21-day contraceptive pills at the time, but admittedly (…)
, by JAMIL Ghazala
The weakening of the railways is forcing the working class into expensive automobile transport, reinforcing social isolation and economic exclusion.
For a vast number of migrant workers, travel has always involved hardship and a struggle for space. However, the recent proliferation of images (…)
, by Scroll Staff
The university asked students not to ‘fall prey to fake messages and misleading rumours’ and advised them to attend classes.
Claiming that Jamia Millia Islamia university has suspended 17 students for protesting disciplinary action against two PhD scholars, the Left-affiliated All India (…)
, by SHARMA Saloni
Rijula Das’s translation brings alive Bhattacharya’s carnivalesque, ensuring the reader does not miss either the nuances or the riotous humour of the prose.
Nabarun Bhattacharya’s Beggars’ Bedlam pulls no punches. The very first page plunges the reader into a scene of coordinated chaos. The (…)
, by MAHAPRASHASTA Ajoy Ashirwad
The AAP forced the BJP to change its own electoral narrative that trashed the former’s welfarist approach as “revdi culture (freebies culture)” and instead imitated Kejriwal’s politics in the 2025 polls.
New Delhi: After remaining out of power for 27 long years, even in the years when Narendra (…)
, by SHANTHA Sukanya
After spending 2,422 days in prison without trial, anti-caste activist Sudhir Dhawale emerges with his resolve stronger than ever. His story reveals the personal cost of speaking truth to power in Modi’s India and demonstrates how state repression often fails to silence the voices it targets. (…)
, by Pakistan India Peoples’ Forum for Peace & Democracy
Born: 8.6.1946 Died: 30.01.2025
Tapan Kumar Bose, renowned documentary film-maker, human rights and peace activist known across South Asia, is no more. Tapan breathed his last at his home in New Delhi in the morning of Martyr’s Day (Shahadat Diwas), 30th January 2025.
For most of his life, (…)
, by BISEN Ankur
At the core of this problem is the notion of casteism, which has been associated with sewage for centuries and prevents the consuming class and its representatives from viewing this issue as an engineering problem to solve.
The Census of 2011 estimated that only 35% of the then 100 million (…)
, by SINGH Karthik
We express our solidarity with Jagjit Singh Dallewal, a farmer leader of Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) Non-Political, whose hunger strike to death has now passed 60 days. We support his pursuit of a legally guaranteed implementation of a universal Minimum Support Price (MSP) and other demands of (…)
, by BUDDHA Chakradhar
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), India’s rural employment lifeline, faces a catastrophic crisis with over 9 crore (90m) workers wrongfully deleted from its registers in the past three years. Despite compelling evidence of systemic failures, the Union (…)
, by ARUN M.A.
To counter this event, a coalition of over 50 progressive organisations is organising a three-day event named the ‘Bahutva Samskruthi Utsava’.
Bengaluru: The Kottala Basaveshwara Education Society runs a dozen schools and colleges, including a tailoring class and a gym, in Kalaburagi district (…)
, by PATEL Suchak
India is currently benefiting from a large working-age population. However, by 2050, the elderly will make up more than 20% of the total population. The UN Population Fund’s India Ageing Report from 2023 predicts that by 2046, there will be more elderly people than children aged 0 to 15. This (…)
, by The Wire (IN)
New Delhi: The third quarter of the 2024-2025 financial year is likely to see a dent in banks’ earnings due to slippages from unsecured loans, mainly in the microfinance sector.
A slippage happens when a borrower does not pay an agreed-upon amount towards resolving their bank loan for 90 days (…)
, by The Wire (IN)
A total of 515 delegates participated in the convention, including 443 women and 72 men, from 15 districts across Maharashtra.
New Delhi: The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), Maharashtra, held its first-ever women farmers’ state convention, a progressive step for a male-dominated field where few (…)
, by ALAM Shahrukh, KULRIYA Mukesh
“We must assess the lack of diversity in our police force – religious, caste, gender and sexual diversity are almost non-existent,” says advocate Shahrukh Alam.
Music has a complex relationship with social discord in India. While there is a long tradition of music bridging diversity and (…)
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