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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),...

Environment

Climate, Catastrophes, and the Corporates!

GangaJune 1, 2026June 1, 2026

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....

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Then They Came for Me

EditorMay 1, 2026May 7, 2026

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...

EDITORIAL

The ABCs Under Fascism

EditorApril 1, 2026April 14, 2026

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...

Fascism

Stand in Solidarity with Azim Premji University Students

AjithaaMarch 1, 2026March 11, 2026

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...

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Political Ecology of Nagarhole: A Tale of Exploitation and Resistance

SushantFebruary 1, 2026March 11, 2026

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

adminJanuary 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...

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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...

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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

adminOctober 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...

EDITORIAL

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

adminJune 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

adminMay 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...

poetry

The Most Dangerous

adminAugust 3, 2026August 3, 2026

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....

History

Students and Politics (1928)

Bhagat SinghAugust 1, 2026August 1, 2026

This article was published in ‘Kirti‘ in July 1928 to address an important political issue. In those days several leaders used to advise the students to avoid participating in political...

Naxalbari Science

Resolving Contradictions Within the People

AratrikaJuly 17, 2026August 3, 2026

In the social context, when it comes to the process of organising the masses, imbuing them with revolutionary ideas, consolidating the vanguard class into a revolutionary party, rallying the broad...

Education Fascism Struggles and Movements

Anatomy of a Cockroach

DannyJuly 16, 2026August 3, 2026

The economic reforms of the 1990s, and the developments that followed, proved catastrophic for many sections of Indian society. Among those affected were the youth, who were crushed under ever-increasing...

History Science

D.D. Kosambi: The Pioneer of the Marxist School of Indian Historiography

SushantJuly 15, 2026August 3, 2026

History is the development in chronological order of successive changes in the means and relations of production. - D.D. Kosambi (History and Society) Very few intellectuals have left as profound...

Environment

Google-Adani Break Ground In Vizag

ShailendraJuly 15, 2026August 3, 2026

“We invite the whole world’s data to reside in India.” PM Narendra Modi said recently, pitching the country as a global data hub ahead of the India AI Impact Summit...

College Corner

The Hidden Cost of Private Education: Extraction of Labour, and Exploitation of Students

An Anonymous StudentJuly 14, 2026August 3, 2026

At institutions like the Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, the language of ‘innovation, science and student-centric education’ masks the truth of commodification of education in these institutions which are turning...

Fascism Uncategorized

The Moo Point

SonuJuly 13, 2026August 3, 2026

For years, the narrative that cow slaughter is the foulest and vilest deed above all has been propagated by the Indian media. Those who consume beef are labelled crude and...

Education

CBSE, OSM, and Privatisation

KamranJuly 12, 2026August 3, 2026

For the 2025–2026 batch +2 exam, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) transitioned from physical answer sheet evaluation to digital evaluation method of On-Screen Marking (OSM). Although this transition...

Environment

The Class Struggle in Environmentalism

SaniyaJuly 11, 2026August 3, 2026

On June 5th, students from All India Students Association (AISA) held a flash demonstration at Lal Bagh on the occasion of World Environment Day. They highlighted key environmental issues in...