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Caste Education

Caste in Campuses: Uniting Against the Great Indian Institutional Discrimination

adminOctober 1, 2023May 31, 2024

“Constitutional morality is not a natural sentiment. It has to be cultivated. We must realize that our people have yet to learn it. Democracy in India is only a top-dressing...

Science

Fly Me to the Moon: Decoding ISRO Chair’s Tall Claims

AratrikaOctober 1, 2023May 31, 2024

For the past twenty years, I have minutely searched the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Puranas, Shastras, astrology books, and ancient texts on science but have failed to trace any root...

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Che: The Eternal Revolutionary

SushantOctober 1, 2023May 31, 2024

“In executing the man, they gave birth to the legend.” -Eduardo Galeano “I believe in the armed struggle as the only solution for people who fight to free themselves, and...

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Hypocrisy of Hindutva (Part 2): Vajpayee’s Great Indian Sale

ArindamOctober 1, 2023May 31, 2024

In the preceding part [1], we explored how the origin and resurgence of Hindutva and its chief proponent Rastriya Swayam Sevak Sangh (RSS) happened first in the lap of British...

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...

Environment

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

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...

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...