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Fascism

Resist the fascist Hindutva frenzy! Demand universal education and dignified employment for all! OR Join the workers’-farmers’ strike on AI 16th February!

adminFebruary 20, 2024March 20, 2024

Ten years ago Narendra Modi came to power with the promises of ushering in Achhe Din or better days, recovering black money, and creating one crore jobs every year. He got a...

Uncategorized

OP Jindal University’s Clampdown on Student Expression and Free Speech

adminFebruary 2, 2024June 27, 2024

A Student from Jindal On February 9th, the administration of OP Jindal Global University took suo moto cognisance of a public discussion titled 'Ram Mandir: A farcical project of Brahmanical...

Caste Fascism

RELEASE BK16! REPEAL UAPA!

adminJanuary 19, 2024August 7, 2024

On 1st January 1818, a small battalion of 800 men including many Mahars, a Dalit sub-caste defeated a massive army of over 25,000 men headed by Peshwa Bajirao II. Although...

Education

Deconstructing New Education Policy: Karnataka in Context

adminJanuary 19, 2024March 19, 2024

In the following decade after the second World War, one of the most baffling questions which haunted many thinkers was something to do with German Masses. How could the Germans...

EDITORIAL

Unravelling of a ‘Democracy’: India 2024

adminJanuary 19, 2024May 27, 2024

“A Single Spark can Start a Prairie Fire” So goes the old Chinese saying much popularised by Comrade Mao through his writings. When we ideated and realised this magazine a...

EDITORIAL Struggles and Movements

The sanctity of law can be maintained only so as it is the expression of the will of the people. – Bhagat Singh

adminNovember 1, 2023May 22, 2024

Students, youth, workers, and civil society activists of Bengaluru under the banner of Horatada Hakkigagi Janandolana (People’s Movement for the Right to Protest) gathered near the Gandhi statue in Maurya...

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...

EDITORIAL Education

State Education Policy: Old Wine in New Bottle?

adminSeptember 1, 2023May 31, 2024

Reject NEP in both form and content!Resist privatisation and corporatisation of education!Demand universal and equitable education! Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah recently announced the scrapping of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020...

EDITORIAL Education

A Critique of the Karnataka State Education Budget

adminAugust 1, 2023May 23, 2024

Spark* recognises the state government’s attempts to bring changes in the current education system that is in shambles, but at the same time, also raises the importance of addressing the...

Education

How Many Deaths Make Too Many? The Institutional Harassment of Aditya Prabhu

adminAugust 1, 2023May 23, 2024

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...