The Twin Crises of Education and Unemployment
The discussions on the recent protests have largely focussed on the nature of this generation of youth, their modes of expression, and so on. But we need to shift the...
Political Prisoners: From Bhagat Singh to BK-16
On September 13th, 1929, revolutionary Jatindra Nath Das (Jatin Das) was martyred after a 63-day hunger strike in Lahore Central Jail. Bhagat Singh, Jatin Das, and other Hindustan Socialist Republican...
Katyn: A Historic Question
Soviet history, especially the unprecedented achievements it made possible under the leadership of Comrade Stalin, is often subjected to slander, distortion, and conspiratorial attacks by bourgeois historians, intellectuals, fascists, and...
Jantar Mantar to Ranchi: Students Fight Against a Broken System
Recently, thousands of youth gathered at Jantar Mantar in Delhi to protest the crisis in competitive examinations. The movement emerged after the Chief Justice of India made a disparaging reference...
Agricultural Students’ Struggle: Jobs, Justice and Accountable University Leadership
A Struggle That Began with Jobs The recent struggle of agricultural science students and graduates in Karnataka was triggered by a government decision to open Agricultural Officer (AO) and Assistant...
When Testing Agencies Test Patience: KPSC 2026
When over 4.5 lakh candidates across 800 centres in Karnataka were sitting to take their Police Constable Recruitment Exams on August 2nd, many were faced with confusion. Exams that were...
SIR: A Karnataka Perspective
On 25 November 1949, Babasaheb Ambedkar warned that with the Constitution coming into force on 26 January 1950, India would enter a ‘life of contradictions’. He said “In politics we...
The Orchestrated Environmental Crises in Kerala
Year after year, the people of Kerala await the terror that the monsoons are going to bring to them. Monsoons in Kerala have been marked by recurring landslides and floods...
Minimum Wage, Maximum Exploitation: Who Does Pay for Karnataka’s Growth?
We often hear from those who have spent some time abroad, complaining about how ‘expensive’ life is over there. They talk about having to cook their own food because domestic...
Towards a Thousand Jantar Mantars: Educate, Organise, Agitate
As part of the national Gen-Z rising campaign, AISA and RYA organised a public seminar on ‘Gen-Z on the March: Paper Leak, Accountability and the New Wave of Youth Politics...