Deconstructing New Education Policy: Karnataka in Context
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...
Unravelling of a ‘Democracy’: India 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...
The sanctity of law can be maintained only so as it is the expression of the will of the people. – Bhagat Singh
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 in Campuses: Uniting Against the Great Indian Institutional Discrimination
“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...
State Education Policy: Old Wine in New Bottle?
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...
A Critique of the Karnataka State Education Budget
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...
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...
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...
South Asian University at Crossroads: Demise of an Intellectual Space
In an outrageous and unprecedented move, recently, South Asian University, suspended four professors on arbitrary charges of ‘inciting and leading students...against the interests of the University’, and ‘anti-social acts’, among...
“The essence of Naxalbari was the assertion of the subaltern class, and the ultimate call to grab the state power.”
The following is an excerpt from an interview of Com. Abhijit Mazumdar, a CC member of CPIML Liberation. Being Com. Charu’s son, he observed the Naxalbari uprising from close quarters.