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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 (...)
The farmers’ movement has reached a stage where it no longer deals with the sectional interests of farmers alone but has deeply affected all sections of Indian society.
As the latest round of talks between home minister Amit Shah and farmer representatives once again ends in a deadlock, hope (...)
The government’s hopes of turning India into the world’s workshop for global corporations are being strongly resisted.
The scene is almost festive. Kanwar Grewal, a popular Punjabi singer, is on the stage performing in front of a spellbound audience. The show is routine for someone like him, but (...)
At Singhu border between Haryana and Delhi, farmer Dev Singh sums up the struggle as one being fought for generations to come.
New Delhi: As Delhi opened its boundaries to protesting farmers in Burari’s Sant Nirankari Ground, farmers refused to enter and protest there as they felt that their (...)
The Covid-19 crisis in India acts as a revealer (just like in film photography) of latent tendencies - or, for lovers of physics metaphors, as a particle accelerator : it has accentuated the authoritarianism of power and the stigmatization of Muslims (accused of spreading the disease). It has (...)
‘Resisting dispossession: The Odisha Story’ is a book written by Nigamananda Sadangi and Ranjana Padhi on people’s movements in Odisha, published in India by Aakar Books. It documents the struggles, based on testimonials of the people who lost their land, livelihood, culture, dignity as well as (...)
CPI, CPI(M) & CPI(ML) Liberation won 16 Bihar seats under RJD-led Mahagathbandhan, showing fight despite the Left’s electoral marginalisation in recent years.
New Delhi: In winning 16 of the 29 seats they contested under the Mahagathbandhan umbrella in Bihar, the electorally marginalised (...)
The 25-point charter that Mahagathbandhan has proposed is a compilation of people’s issues. We’ll carry forward the agenda as a responsible opposition and will hold govt responsible, he said
More rational distribution of seats among Mahagathbandhan partners would have given better results, said (...)
Gunning down of alleged Maoists and their Adivasi sympathisers, irrespective of age and gender, in fake encounters, has become a routine job for the security forces in India – be it the massacres in Gadchiroli Sukuma, Malkangiri, Bhalwahi, Nilambur or many other in the forests of Andhra, (...)
Charities warn that seven months of the pandemic has set the country back decades on child exploitation
Over 70 children were crammed into a bus, heading from Bihar to a sweatshop in the Indian city of Rajasthan, when the authorities pulled it over. Among the faces half hidden behind colourful (...)
Left parties’ alliance with the Rashtriya Janata Dal in the ensuing Bihar assembly elections is touted to be a formidable one.
Left parties and their alliance with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) in the ensuing Bihar assembly elections is touted to be a formidable one, given that the former (...)
While India’s rulers downplay the brutal murder of a Dalit teenager by an upper-caste gang and acquit Hindu nationalists guilty of historic crimes, Arundhati Roy argues, they are concocting another show trial of Muslims and progressive activists to intimidate dissenters.
As Diwali approaches (...)
With millions of children not having access to food and education during COVID-19, the panel has issued a detailed advisory to ministries and states on ensuring welfare.
New Delhi: Noting that the COVID-19 pandemic has deprived 64 million children of their right to food through a disruption in (...)
As the legislative session is going on, Bengaluru is becoming a focal point for many struggles against the anti-people bills being passed by the state and central government
Bengaluru: As the legislative session is going on, Bengaluru is becoming a focal point for many struggles against the (...)
The government has repeatedly used the FCRA as an instrument for harassment of political rivals or activist organisations like Amnesty International.
The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment (FCRA) Bill, 2020 has been introduced in the current parliament session.
The amendment seeks to (...)
The Modi government has finally managed to create disillusionment amongst large numbers of people who were earlier unaffected by this government’s erosion of social justice, violent suppression of dissent, crony capitalism and so on.
The growing opposition against the government is making (...)
The song is titled ‘Bambai mein ka ba’ (what is there in Mumbai). The video features an English translation, and has been directed by filmmaker Anubhav Sinha.
New Delhi: Filmmaker Anubhav Sinha and actor Manoj Bajpayee have got together to produce a hard-hitting Bhojpuri rap song titled ‘Bambai (...)
When people in India are being steadily deprived of the right to dissent, it is necessary to use space where similar constraints do not exist. The Global Indian diaspora in “free-er” countries can provide one such space.
Prashant Bhushan’s conviction by the Supreme Court for contempt of court has (...)
Today, 2 September 2020, marks the end of the birth centenary year of the left-progressive Bengali poet, Biren Chattopadhyay, whose prime concern in more than four decades of his literary life had been how to “hold one’s head high even in the midst of hell”, writes Nilanjan Dutta.
American poet (...)
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