30 Questions and a Solution to Start Off Your Year
Dear Reader, How does it feel to have witnessed another revolution round the sun, 12 flippings of the calendar pages, and 365 glances at the headlines showing the endless brutalities...
Bengaluru’s Tunnel Project: A Corporate Scam Pushed as ‘Development’
Over the past year, the Congress government in Karnataka has repeatedly claimed that it had ‘no money’ to run public transport. In January, BMTC fares were increased by 15%, and...
Farmers of Anekal vs. State of Karnataka
In Bengaluru the post-90’s boom has manifested in the expansion of the city limits, at the cost of fertile land owned and tilled by farmers for multiple generations. In this...
The Himalaya in Labour
The month of September has heralded a popular uprising in the neighbouring country of Nepal that is landlocked on three sides by India. The uprising in Nepal widely dubbed by...
Buried Truth of Dharmasthala
On July 3rd Karnataka was shaken by a chilling confession. A former Dalit sanitation worker from Dharmasthala revealed that, under coercion, he had buried scores of bodies over the years...
Devanahalli Farmers Create History
Over three years of persistent struggle by the farmers of Devanahalli gained a momentous victory on the 15th of July, when the Siddaramaiah government was forced to drop the forcible...
Defuse the Ticking Bomb of Climate Crisis: The Path to Climate Justice is Red
As we inch closer to observing another World Environment Day mandated by the United Nations to fall on the 5th of June every year, the hundreds of treaties, summits, and...
Promises Made and Evaded by the Congress in Karnataka
It has been two years since Congress was voted to form the government in Karnataka. The electoral victory was hailed by many. It was expected to be a counter to...
Development vs. Destruction: People’s Battle in Honnavar
The coastal town of Honnavar, Karnataka, has recently become a battleground between the local fisherfolk and a state-backed private port company called Honnavar Ports Private Limited (HPPL). On February 24th,...
Become the Alternative in the Absence of One
Recently in Bengaluru, activists organised under the banner of Bangalore for Justice and Peace, a group that conducts events and campaigns to raise awareness about the ongoing genocide of Palestinians,...
Understanding Caste
Caste has been a defining feature of Indian society for millennia. Understanding it does not require delving into speculative debates about its origins, as caste has continually evolved. What castes...
Our Task in the Current Situation
Two years have passed since we started this magazine, a new kind of initiative in a city like Bengaluru that is one of the biggest investment hubs in India witnessing...
The Right to Education: Luxury or Necessity?
Education in Karnataka has been getting increasingly inaccessible, with reduced government investments, high dropout rates, teacher shortages, and inadequate infrastructure being recurrent issues. Students from elementary schools to degree colleges...
Christ University Students Need to Be Heard!
Christ University is known for its strict rules, mandatory attendance, and draconian dress code. Christ University, like many other Bangalore colleges, have made research compulsory for the PG students. However,...
From Narco-Terror Myths to Manufactured Consent: US Militarism and the New Offensive Against Venezuela
In the past few weeks, the United States has moved decisively to escalate its confrontation with Venezuela. Under the veneer of ‘counter-narcotics operations’, Washington has deployed the world’s largest aircraft...
The Anti-colonial Legacy of Tipu Sultan
In all the communal commotion surrounding Tipu Sultan and Hyder Ali, the RSS-BJP cleverly tries to bury the powerful, anti-colonial legacy of their 40-year rule. Contrasted with the RSS’s role...
Babri Masjid Demolition: The Rehearsal Nobody Talks About
A rehearsal was carried out for the demolition of Babri Masjid on 5th December, 1992, just a day before the destruction, half a kilometre away from the mosque. It was...
Socialist Industrialisation: A Planned Economy Based on Five-Year Plans
To change from the muzhik horse of poverty to the horse of large-scale machine industry - such was the aim of the Party in drawing up the five-year plan and...
On the Proxy War in Sudan
The globally largest displacement crisis is ongoing in Sudan, with over 9.5 million forced from their homes, and millions starving. The civil war, now in its third year, is between...
Long Live the Internationalist Spirit of Dr. Dwarakanath Kotnis!
The red flag which symbolizes the victory of the Chinese revolution is dyed also with the blood of this great Indian doctor. -Jiang Yizhen Dwarakanath Shantaram Kotnis was an Indian-born...
Lessons from the Powai Hostage Crisis
On 30th October, Mumbai witnessed an incident that blurred the lines between personal desperation and public safety. In the Powai area, inside a well-known recording studio, auditions were being held...
All India Students’ Association Strongly Condemns the Poor Facilities and Zero Privacy in Bengaluru’s State-run Hostels
This exposes the state government's carelessness and their lack of commitment towards the students of the marginalized communities. In a surprise visit by Lokayukta teams to 34 state-run boys' and...