September 2023 – Spark *

Education

Advocacy Beyond Classrooms: The Need for Student Unions

FionnSeptember 1, 2023May 31, 2024

Student unions have a bold and longstanding history of defending democratic rights in India. Along with workers and peasants, students have played an active part in numerous mass movements throughout...

Imperialism

Remembering the first ‘9/11’- Beyond the “Allende Romanticisation”

VanshSeptember 1, 2023May 31, 2024

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the US-backed Chilean coup d'état of 11 September 1973 which led to the death and torture of thousands, the overthrow of Chile's elected...

Why the Bombings on Adivasi Villages?

SurjoSeptember 1, 2023May 31, 2024

On 7th April 2023, the Indian government dropped bombs aerially with the help of drones on the Bhattum, Kavurugatta, Meenagatta and Jabbagatta villages of Bastar district, Chhattisgarh. This is the...

Environment Indigenous Rights

When Prestige Overrules Nature

SreegangaSeptember 1, 2023May 31, 2024

Last year in September, on the PM’s birthday, eight African cheetahs were moved all the way from Namibia to Kuno National Park, Madhya Pradesh. Despite the controversy and objections from...

Science

Privatizing Research: Examining the NRF Bill

SachinSeptember 1, 2023May 31, 2024

“Where do correct ideas come from?…they come from three kinds of social practice, the struggle for production, the class struggle and scientific experiment." - Mao Tse-tung The central government has...

Corporate Exploitation Environment

Legalised Plunder

SharathSeptember 1, 2023May 31, 2024

In this age of corporate loot, the Government of India has paved a new way for private corporations to loot the natural resources in a much more audacious manner with...

Development

Money, Childhood, Toys, and Happiness

AnkitSeptember 1, 2023May 31, 2024

Perhaps many of us have played ghar-ghar (in this game we pretend to be old and act like running a household by playing different roles) in our childhood. I played...

Education Mental Health

Mental Health Problems in Indian Institutes

SurjoSeptember 1, 2023May 31, 2024

Poster demonstration against institutional apathy towards mental health issues at IISc

Fascism Hindutva

Beyond The Headlines: Unraveling the Communal Violence in Nuh and Gurugram

SaniyaSeptember 1, 2023May 31, 2024

With the upcoming 2024 general elections approaching, we see several tactics being employed by the ruling party to remain in power. The Sangh Parivar using mob violence in order to...

Hindutva History

George Reddy: A Trailblazing Revolutionary of His Time

PrakashSeptember 1, 2023May 31, 2024

April 15th, 1972. It was early morning. The sun peeped through the clouds while birds started their morning exchanges with everything in sight. As the city was asleep, the streets...