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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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
Almost 60% of students at the government schools studied, according to the report by researchers at Azim Premji University, are not being able to attend classes regularly.
New Delhi: A study conducted by researchers at Azim Premji University, Bangalore, has found that online education is (...)
For 35 years, the activist dedicated his life to building a movement for justice. Unfortunately, Bhopal appears set to forget his contributions.
India can learn a lot from Abdul Jabbar’s glorious struggle for justice for the dead and the survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy.
At a violent time (...)
‘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 (...)
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