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...
Manipur: Replay of the Tried and Tested Neoliberal Hindutva Formula
A video of two Kuki women being paraded naked in Manipur went viral on July 19th, sparking nationwide protests. The incident occurred on May 4th, but no FIRs or actions...
Economy & Other Things the War Taught Me
My alarm clock rings at 6 am IST whether there Is a war or not. 6 missed notifications, 2 missed Calls, and instagram frozen. I swipe across stories And Darwish...
Schools and Polytechnics: World’s Largest Educational Laboratory- The Soviet Experience Part V
“A school outside of life, outside of politics, is a lie and hypocrisy” - Com. Lenin (at the First All-Russian Congress on Education) In July 2020, the Government of India...