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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...

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Farmers of Anekal vs. State of Karnataka

AratrikaNovember 1, 2025November 28, 2025

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...

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The Himalaya in Labour

EditorialOctober 1, 2025October 8, 2025

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...

Gender

Buried Truth of Dharmasthala

SachinSeptember 1, 2025September 3, 2025

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...

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Devanahalli Farmers Create History

SaniyaAugust 1, 2025August 3, 2025

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...

Climate EDITORIAL

Defuse the Ticking Bomb of Climate Crisis: The Path to Climate Justice is Red

EditorialJune 1, 2025September 15, 2025

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...

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Promises Made and Evaded by the Congress in Karnataka

EditorialMay 1, 2025May 18, 2025

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...

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Development vs. Destruction: People’s Battle in Honnavar

SreegangaApril 2, 2025April 13, 2025

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,...

Democracy EDITORIAL Fascism

Become the Alternative in the Absence of One

EditorialMarch 3, 2025March 9, 2025

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,...

Caste

Understanding Caste

Anand TeltumbdeJanuary 12, 2025February 3, 2025

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...

EDITORIAL Fascism Struggles and Movements

Our Task in the Current Situation

EditorialJanuary 2, 2025January 21, 2025

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...

Education

The Right to Education: Luxury or Necessity?

SaniyaDecember 1, 2024December 17, 2024

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...

Fascism Hindutva

A 100 years of RSS and its Friendship with the Congress

SachinNovember 12, 2025December 5, 2025

On October 1, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) celebrated its centenary with rallies across at least five states, including Karnataka. While citizens, workers, and students face denial of permission for...

Naxalbari Revolutionary Movement

Remembering the Glorious Srikakulam Peasants’ Revolt – Part 2

SushantNovember 11, 2025December 5, 2025

Naxalbari gave the mass movement a new shape. In October 1968, after consulting Charu Mazumdar, the Ryotanga Sangrama Samiti was formed as a body to seize political power in the...

Marxism 101

What is Capitali$m?

SushantNovember 9, 2025December 5, 2025

Capitalism is an exploitative socio-economic system where the capitalists (the owners of the means of production) extract surplus value by exploiting the labour of workers and reinvest part of it....

Palestine

The White Man’s Peace: Unmasking the Gaza Deal

SaniyaNovember 9, 2025December 5, 2025

Just eight days into the Israel-Hamas ceasefire ‘deal’ brokered by the US, a Palestinian family of eleven was struck by Israel while traveling back to their home. By October 22nd,...

Poetry

The Choice is yours?

Harish GopiNovember 8, 2025December 5, 2025

Everybody wants a piece of them The land, The tree, The tiger, The bauxite, The development. But I wonder, Why not the shackles? Why not the screams? Why not the...

Caste Democracy

The Socio-Educational Survey in Karnataka

Sashi RekhaNovember 8, 2025December 5, 2025

Karnataka’s ongoing caste and socio-economic survey has brought many discussions and debates to the surface. The survey aims to collect information about people’s social, educational, and economic backgrounds to understand...

Democracy Fascism

The Right to Belong: Citizenship, State Power, and the People of Ladakh

DevnaNovember 7, 2025December 5, 2025

Who has the right to claim citizenship in India? How should we perform our citizenship so that the state is ready to hear our voices? Identifying as an Indian becomes...

Revolutionary Movement

The Great October Socialist Revolution

Harish GopiNovember 7, 2025December 5, 2025

From the 25th of October 1917, the entire world was shaken by the events unfolding in Russia. A once backward, peasant nation under Tsar Nicholas II, where the most downtrodden...

Democracy Fascism

From Citizens to Suspects: How SIR is Reshaping Karnataka’s Voter Rolls

PrajwalNovember 7, 2025December 5, 2025

The Constitution of India proclaims a nation built on equality, where every citizen’s voice holds power, and freedom could never be taken away. Today, that principle is quietly being reversed....