July 2024 – Spark *

The Crisis of Centralized Exams: Unmasking NTA’s Failures and the Plight of Indian Students

SachinJuly 7, 2024December 17, 2024

The anger of the students over NEET exams was not settled when the government cancelled the NET exam conducted by NTA, raising questions about its institutional integrity. Hundreds of protests...

EDITORIAL Education Student movements

Scrap National Testing Agency! Dissolution only Solution!

EditorialJuly 7, 2024December 17, 2024

The ‘strategic’ publication of the NEET UG 2024 results on the same day as the results for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections has backfired royally for Modi 3.0. The NEET...

Poetry Struggles and Movements

“We All are Prisoners of Independent India”

EditorialJuly 1, 2024November 1, 2024

-Written by a peasant imprisoned during Telangana movement that started in July, 1946 Prisoners, we all are prisoners Prisoners of Independent India For the sin of standing by the poor...

Economics History Science

The Origin of Family and Private Property

SushantJuly 1, 2024November 1, 2024

Primitive Communism The first socio-economic formation in the development of society is primitive society, which formed when humans were in the process of evolving away from the animal world. It...

Education Fascism Freedom of expression Hindutva politics Science Student movements

Why is Darwin’s Theory of Evolution an Anathema to the Religionists? – Our Task

adminJuly 1, 2024November 1, 2024

However, we cannot wash our hands off simply by criticizing the banishment of evolution from school curriculum in India and Bangladesh. The BJP has done what it is expected to...

Freedom of expression History Imperialism Indigenous Rights People's movements politics Struggles and Movements Student movements

“He, who cannot dream and imbue others to dream, is not a revolutionary ” – Charu Majumdar

ArindamJuly 1, 2024November 1, 2024

On 28th July, 1972 Charu Majumdar was tortured to death in police custody in Kolkata. It ranks among the worst abuse of human rights of a political prisoner or leader...

Democracy EDITORIAL Freedom of expression Hindutva Law People's movements politics Struggles and Movements

Resist the Implementation of the Three New Criminal Laws

EditorialJuly 1, 2024November 1, 2024

Calling on all lawyers, law students and other legal professionals and, all sections of society, to persuade the Union Government to postpone beyond 1st July 2024, the date for implementation...

Democracy Law politics Struggles and Movements violence

Custodial Death in Channagiri : A Fact-finding Exercise

SharathJuly 1, 2024November 1, 2024

Heena Banu wails over her dead husband, who was killed in the custody of police in Channagiri taluk of Davanagere District. She is one of the many to narrate a...

Climate Corporate Exploitation Democracy Development Environment People's movements politics Struggles and Movements

How Much More Does Ballari Have to suffer?

AyushJuly 1, 2024November 1, 2024

Ballari is a district in the state of Karnataka known for its rich mineral resources especially iron-ore and is therefore also known as ‘The Iron City’. The 1993 National Mineral...

Democracy Education People's movements politics Struggles and Movements Student movements

The Crisis of Centralized Exams: Unmasking NTA’s Failures and the Plight of Indian Students

SachinJuly 1, 2024November 1, 2024

The anger of the students over NEET exams was not settled when the government cancelled the NET exam conducted by NTA, raising questions about its institutional integrity. Hundreds of protests...