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On December 21, the Adivasis of Nagarhole started their historic 13-day Padayathra (December 21 - January 2), organised by Nagarhole Adivasi Jammapale Hakku Sthapana Samiti (NAJHSS), the federation of Gram...

EDITORIAL

30 Questions and a Solution to Start Off Your Year

EditorialJanuary 1, 2026January 12, 2026

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...

Climate

Bengaluru’s Tunnel Project: A Corporate Scam Pushed as ‘Development’

SachinDecember 1, 2025December 9, 2025

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...

Uncategorized

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...

Uncategorized

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...

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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...

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,...

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...

History Revolutionary Movement

Philosophy of the Bomb: The Question of Violence in the Indian Freedom Struggle

SushantJanuary 17, 2026February 10, 2026

“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...

Poetry

The Ballad of Sangolli Rayanna

SushantJanuary 15, 2026February 4, 2026

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...

History

Sangolli Rayanna and the Peasant Guerilla Uprising of Nandgad

SushantJanuary 15, 2026February 4, 2026

“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)...

Exploitation Fascism Law

The Labour Codes for, of, and by the Bourgeoisie

VidyaJanuary 13, 2026February 4, 2026

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...

Economics

An Orphan with a House: Abuse, Alienation, and the Indian Middle-Class Child

Zaid KhanJanuary 13, 2026February 4, 2026

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...

Education

The Myth of Decolonisation of Education

SachinJanuary 13, 2026February 4, 2026

“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...

Democracy Fascism

BLOs’ Deaths Expose SIR, the Killing Machine

SreegangaJanuary 10, 2026February 4, 2026

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...

Democracy Education Freedom of expression

Bring Back Student Unions!

Harish GopiJanuary 10, 2026February 4, 2026

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....

Gender politics

POCSO: Prevention of Criminals being Seized for Offences

AnoushkaJanuary 8, 2026February 4, 2026

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...