The Right to Belong: Citizenship, State Power, and the People of Ladakh
Who has the right to claim citizenship in India? How should we perform our citizenship so that the state is ready to hear our voices? Identifying as an Indian becomes...
Quantum Capital: The Politics of Innovation and Exploitation in Karnataka’s Q-City Plan
Karnataka government has announced a thousand crore investment in setting up a Q-city near Bangalore. This announcement has been made by the Science and Technology Minister, N S Boseraju during...
Manual Scavenging: Biggest Shame of India
On 21st July, just weeks after India proudly announced its ascent as the fourth largest economy in the world, Puttaswamy, a 31-year-old labourer, developed severe breathing difficulties and died while...
Space, Science, and Surveillance
A symptom of a capitalist economy is the privatisation of knowledge. Privatisation of education, privatisation of access to knowledge, and privatisation of research. Increasingly, Indian space research has been shifted...
Terror in Uniform: The Indian State’s War in Kashmir
When does the state get the power to rape and kill people with impunity? When is someone treated as a threat by the state? In the history of the development...