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...
Philosophy of the Bomb: The Question of Violence in the Indian Freedom Struggle
“There is no crime that Britain has not committed in India. Deliberate misrule has reduced us to paupers, has ‘bled us white’. As a race and a people we stand...
The Ballad of Sangolli Rayanna
On the rocks of Nandagad Rayanna stood tall, He stole the sleep of Landlords and the Company. No forts, no flag, No cannons, no crown on his head, The forest...
Sangolli Rayanna and the Peasant Guerilla Uprising of Nandgad
“My last wish is to be born again in this country to fight against the British and drive them away from the sacred soil.” - Sangolli Rayanna (before his execution)...
The Labour Codes for, of, and by the Bourgeoisie
Withdrawing 29 central legislations and replacing them with four Labour Codes (the Code of Wages, the Industrial Relations Code, the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code and the Code...
An Orphan with a House: Abuse, Alienation, and the Indian Middle-Class Child
Not Poor Enough to Protest, Not Free Enough to Breathe The Indian middle-class child is caught in a dialectic of illusion and alienation. Born into homes with brick walls, school...
The Myth of Decolonisation of Education
“One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes...
BLOs’ Deaths Expose SIR, the Killing Machine
A wave of suicides and sudden deaths among Booth-Level Officers (BLOs) across India was reported without much media attention towards the end of 2025. The deaths clearly point to the...
Bring Back Student Unions!
Let them study; certainly let them study. But let them also acquire knowledge about politics and jump into the fray and devote their lives to it, when the need arises....
POCSO: Prevention of Criminals being Seized for Offences
On November 28th, Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru of Chitradurga Murugha Mutt was acquitted of sexual assault of two minors by a trial court in Chitradurga district. The victims, 2 girls aged...
A Report on Karnataka’s Crumbling Education Sector
Karnataka’s education system, over the past few years, shows the decay of public schools and colleges. Poor results in schools and heavy commercialization of education make clear how the government’s...