A Critique of the Karnataka State Education Budget
Spark* recognises the state government’s attempts to bring changes in the current education system that is in shambles, but at the same time, also raises the importance of addressing the...
Neoconservatism and Social Media
In postmodern cosmopolitan societies one of the most significant questions as far as human behaviour is concerned is; what it means to be “woke”. Woke-ism, much like its predecessors, is...
Awaited Independence
Let us declare that the state of war does exist and shall exist so long as the Indian toiling masses and the natural resources are being exploited by a handful...
Role of the Big Bourgeoisie in the Partition of the Indian Subcontinent
The partition of the Indian subcontinent was one such event that still influences the geopolitics of the region. Be it the abrogation of Article 370 in Kashmir or be it...
Academic Freedom in Scientific Institutes
Last week, more than 500 scientists and academics wrote to the Indian institute of Science (IISc) criticizing its administration for prohibiting a discussion on the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. In...
Dissent and Democracy in Bengaluru
Koramangala is one of the trendiest areas of Bengaluru. The road from Nexus mall to the National Games village is an important road in the area. It has several posh...
How Many Deaths Make Too Many? The Institutional Harassment of Aditya Prabhu
Aditya Prabhu, a nineteen year old, took his life after being leveled with charges of cheating in an examination, by the management of PES University (Bengaluru). Much of the corporate...
Democracy at Grassroot: A Bloody Upshot in the Rurals of West Bengal
Panchayat Elections in West Bengal have always been an event of tremendous anticipation and an apparent reflection of a change in the political litmus of Bengal. The first clear indication...
Bulldozer Raj Spreads Its Fangs; The Many Fangs of Bulldozers
On 4 July 2023, a footage of Pravesh Shukla, a leader of the Bhartiya Janata Party, (BJP) urinating on Dashmat Rawat, an Adivasi man, in the Sidhi district of Madhya...
After Effects of NEP in Uttar Pradesh: NEP’s Four Year Undergraduate Program is Graded Inequality and Exclusion
We have seen how the forceful and mindless implementation of the Four Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP) at Delhi University in 2013 turned out to be disastrous for the students. Thousands...