When Will the Siege on Democracy End?
The state is, as a rule, the state of the most powerful, economically dominant class, which, through the medium of the state, becomes also the politically dominant class, and thus...
The People Will Sing!
The astounding silence of a minister of a fascist government while students died by suicide was the moment many of the upper-middle classes got a shocking, unsettling thought: "is our...
Fertile Lands for a Sterile Project: Report on Bidadi AI City
On 12th March 2025, the Greater Bengaluru Development Authority (GBDA) sent preliminary notices of land acquisition to the farmers of Ramanagara district to build a Greater Bengaluru Industrial Township (GBIT),...
Climate, Catastrophes, and the Corporates!
Long gone is the time when climate disasters were being predicted for the future! Every ‘brink of climate catastrophe’ sign gets passed, and new warnings, more glaring and desperate, appear....
Then They Came for Me
The history of post-1947 India can be divided into two, one leading to the events of 25th May, 1967 in the Naxalbari village of North Bengal that sparked the Naxalbari...
The ABCs Under Fascism
Historically it has been observed that fascism is engendered by an acute crisis of capitalism. It has some very evident markers like the dehumanisation of certain communities, crushing of communist...
Stand in Solidarity with Azim Premji University Students
On 24th of February members of Akhil Bharatiya Vidhyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student-wing of the RSS, forced their way into Azim Premji University (APU) Sarjapura campus to disrupt a discussion...
Political Ecology of Nagarhole: A Tale of Exploitation and Resistance
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...
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...
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...
Paradise Under Suspicion: Kashmir’s Unhealed Wounds
Kashmir is famous for its beauty: snow covered mountains, calm lakes, valleys full of flowers. But that is only the postcard version. Behind it are graves, prison cells, demolished homes...
Linking Rivers, Unlinking Lives!
Last month, adivasi protests in Madhya Pradesh made headlines. Their demonstrations progressed from Chita, Mitti, Jal and Phansi satyagraha – lying on funeral pyres, smearing mud on their bodies, submerging...
Whither Freedom? The Special Intensive Revision
The pain endured by the people of this land is not something that can be described in mere words! From the Aryans to the British, it has been 4,000 years...
Predictable Floods, Avoidable Disaster: Assam 2026
As floodwaters swallowed homes and highways across Assam in July 2026, Chief Minister Himanta Sarma pointed to a cloudburst in neighbouring Nagaland as a key trigger for the disaster. While...
Street Vendor Evictions in Bengaluru: A State-led Crime Against the Working Class
In 2023, as Karnataka was heading for elections , the current Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi came to Bengaluru and held a convention with Powrakarmikas...
Dharmendra Pradhan Resigns! What Next?
From dawn on Monday, July 20, students, young people with precarious employment, and families arrived in New Delhi from several Indian states to participate in the march called by the...
The Little Boy Rings the Warning Bell
It was predicted that India will experience below-average rainfalls this monsoon. The June rainfalls have already proved this, July too has followed the same trend. Inadequate rainfall has far-reaching consequences....
The Most Dangerous
Most treacherous is not the robbery of hard earned wages Most horrible is not the torture by the police. Most dangerous is not the graft for the treason and greed....