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Education

Students of Bangalore Medical College Fight for Dignity

AratrikaMarch 11, 2026April 14, 2026

Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute (BMCRI) was rocked by a two-day protest organised by students pursuing BSc in Allied Health Sciences (AHS) in early February. The protests highlighted a...

Environment

Adani’s Green hunt

AratrikaFebruary 18, 2026March 11, 2026

The world has seen a meteoric rise of the Indian business magnate Gautam Adani since 2014, exemplified by his quantum leap in the Forbes richest list to the 29th position...

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The Anti-colonial Legacy of Tipu Sultan

AratrikaDecember 11, 2025January 11, 2026

In all the communal commotion surrounding Tipu Sultan and Hyder Ali, the RSS-BJP cleverly tries to bury the powerful, anti-colonial legacy of their 40-year rule. Contrasted with the RSS’s role...

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Farmers of Anekal vs. State of Karnataka

AratrikaNovember 1, 2025November 28, 2025

In Bengaluru the post-90’s boom has manifested in the expansion of the city limits, at the cost of fertile land owned and tilled by farmers for multiple generations. In this...

Gender

Reflections on Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp

AratrikaSeptember 2, 2025October 2, 2025

Banu Mushtaq’s ‘Heart Lamp’ is a collection of twelve short stories in English translated by Deepa Bhasthi from a mix of languages common to Malnad. Her recent awarding of the...

Gender

The Struggle for Half the Sky- Part III

AratrikaJuly 11, 2025August 11, 2025

The second article in this series discussed the economic basis of patriarchy under feudalism and its manifestations in terms of marriage relations and sexual exploitation of women from oppressed castes....

Imperialism Palestine

World on the Edge of a Fragile Peace

AratrikaJuly 11, 2025August 11, 2025

One of the strongest blows the unreal state of Israel has received in the international arena recently is through the voyage undertaken by Greta Thunberg and her comrades aboard the...

Gender

The Struggle for Half the Sky- Part II

AratrikaApril 12, 2025June 12, 2025

The introductory article in this series discussed the economic basis of the origin of patriarchy in society. It was shown how the rise of patriarchy is intertwined with the rise...

Education Fascism

Hands off Jadavpur University! Long live Students’ Struggle!

AratrikaApril 12, 2025June 12, 2025

Jadavpur university (JU) has been on the boil since the West Bengal state education minister Bratya Basu ran his car over students on 1st March, grievously injuring one. For the...

Education

Glimpses of Karnataka Education Budget 2025-26

AratrikaApril 12, 2025June 12, 2025

The 2025-26 state budget was presented by CM Siddaramaiah on 7th March. Overall it was a pro-corporate budget under the garb of stated pro-people policies most of which suffered budget...