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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...

Uncategorized

Economy & Other Things the War Taught Me

adminJuly 1, 2023May 22, 2024

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...

Uncategorized

South Asian University at Crossroads: Demise of an Intellectual Space

adminJuly 1, 2023May 22, 2024

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...

Struggles and Movements

“The essence of Naxalbari was the assertion of the subaltern class, and the ultimate call to grab the state power.”

adminJuly 1, 2023May 22, 2024

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.

Cover Education

Unveiling the Dark Side of Virtual Learning: Exploitation and Fraud in India’s EdTech Boom

adminJuly 1, 2023May 22, 2024

These companies prey upon aspirational parents’ insecurities about their children being unsuccessful, and manipulate them

Caste Education

Casteism in Indian Academia: The Institutional Murder of Prof. Samarvir Singh

adminJune 25, 2023June 25, 2024

Surya (TW: Mention of suicide)“How can they be so cruel? How can they just throw out someone who has been there for years? Do they know the struggles of a...