June 2025 – Spark *

Climate EDITORIAL

Defuse the Ticking Bomb of Climate Crisis: The Path to Climate Justice is Red

EditorialJune 1, 2025September 15, 2025

As we inch closer to observing another World Environment Day mandated by the United Nations to fall on the 5th of June every year, the hundreds of treaties, summits, and...

Space, Science, and Surveillance

DevnaJune 1, 2025July 14, 2025

A symptom of a capitalist economy is the privatisation of knowledge. Privatisation of education, privatisation of access to knowledge, and privatisation of research. Increasingly, Indian space research has been shifted...

Climate Corporate Exploitation Development

Murder Mines of Tamil Nadu

SreegangaJune 1, 2025July 14, 2025

On January 17th, 2025, K. Jagabar Ali was brutally run over in a planned killing. Ali, an environmental activist was, among many others, a whistleblower who had repeatedly petitioned against...

Corporate Exploitation Development Environment Struggles and Movements

Ballari: A Story of Loot, Betrayal, and Resistance

SachinJune 1, 2025July 14, 2025

In early May 2025 a special CBI court in Telangana’s Nampally convicted former Karnataka minister and BJP MLA, Gali Janardhan Reddy and three others in the long-running Obulapuram Mining Company...

Corporate Exploitation Development Environment

Ports of Plunder: Honnavar Fisherfolk Struggle against Corporate Capture

ArindamJune 1, 2025July 14, 2025

The coastal town of Honnavar in Karnataka has erupted in protest against a private port project by Honnavar Ports Private Limited (HPPL), a subsidiary of GVPR Engineers Ltd., which has...

Corporate Exploitation Development Environment Indigenous Rights Struggles and Movements

Eviction, Exploitation, and Resistance: The Struggle of the Jenu Kurubas in Nagarhole Forest

SreegangaJune 1, 2025July 14, 2025

On May 10, 2025, members of the All India Students’ Association (AISA) and Adivasi Sangharsh Morcha (ASM) visited a forest area in Nagarhole, Karnataka, to express solidarity with around 52...

Education Student movements

UPDATES ON STUDENT MOVEMENTS

adminJune 1, 2025July 19, 2025

Bengaluru B.Ed Students Protest Over Hall Tickets In Bengaluru, over 100 B.Ed students, protested against Sri Vishnu Vocational Studies (SVVS) for allegedly misrepresenting its affiliation with Bangalore University. Students claimed...

Caste Education

A Tale of Insecurity: Anti Intellectualism, Caste, Class, Capitalism—and the Slow Death of the Humanities

HritojaJune 1, 2025July 19, 2025

In today’s world, where science and technology are advancing rapidly, many people seem to dislike deep thinking, especially in subjects like literature, philosophy, or sociology. This attitude—called anti-intellectualism—is not just...

Hindutva Kashmir

Pahalgam: Tragedy Turned into an Election Gimmick by the BJP

SaniyaJune 1, 2025July 19, 2025

Time and again, when a crisis or elections loom, the BJP government shifts focus to headline-worthy achievements. Over a month after 26 people lost their lives in the Pahalgam terror...

Fascism

Spark* Condemns the Cold-blooded Extrajudicial Murders of 27 Maoists Including the General Secretary of CPI (Maoist)Comrade Nambala Keshava Rao alias Basavaraju by the Indian State

adminJune 1, 2025July 21, 2025

In the morning of 21st May reports of this massive operation by the security forces surfaced followed by the jubilant Amit Shah applauding the forces for this ‘major breakthrough’. The...