No Roof Over our Heads!
Children in school should think about playing and complaining about their homework! They should not have to worry about whether the roof above their classroom will hold. Yet, in September...
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...
The Twin Crises of Education and Unemployment
The discussions on the recent protests have largely focussed on the nature of this generation of youth, their modes of expression, and so on. But we need to shift the...
Political Prisoners: From Bhagat Singh to BK-16
On September 13th, 1929, revolutionary Jatindra Nath Das (Jatin Das) was martyred after a 63-day hunger strike in Lahore Central Jail. Bhagat Singh, Jatin Das, and other Hindustan Socialist Republican...
Katyn: A Historic Question
Soviet history, especially the unprecedented achievements it made possible under the leadership of Comrade Stalin, is often subjected to slander, distortion, and conspiratorial attacks by bourgeois historians, intellectuals, fascists, and...
Jantar Mantar to Ranchi: Students Fight Against a Broken System
Recently, thousands of youth gathered at Jantar Mantar in Delhi to protest the crisis in competitive examinations. The movement emerged after the Chief Justice of India made a disparaging reference...
Agricultural Students’ Struggle: Jobs, Justice and Accountable University Leadership
A Struggle That Began with Jobs The recent struggle of agricultural science students and graduates in Karnataka was triggered by a government decision to open Agricultural Officer (AO) and Assistant...
When Testing Agencies Test Patience: KPSC 2026
When over 4.5 lakh candidates across 800 centres in Karnataka were sitting to take their Police Constable Recruitment Exams on August 2nd, many were faced with confusion. Exams that were...
SIR: A Karnataka Perspective
On 25 November 1949, Babasaheb Ambedkar warned that with the Constitution coming into force on 26 January 1950, India would enter a ‘life of contradictions’. He said “In politics we...
The Orchestrated Environmental Crises in Kerala
Year after year, the people of Kerala await the terror that the monsoons are going to bring to them. Monsoons in Kerala have been marked by recurring landslides and floods...
Minimum Wage, Maximum Exploitation: Who Does Pay for Karnataka’s Growth?
We often hear from those who have spent some time abroad, complaining about how ‘expensive’ life is over there. They talk about having to cook their own food because domestic...