Suryashekhar Biswas

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

Suryashekhar BiswasAugust 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...

Poetry

Economy & Other Things the War Taught Me

Suryashekhar BiswasJuly 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...

History

Remembering Rosa Luxemburg

Suryashekhar BiswasMarch 1, 2023March 21, 2024

Rosa Luxemburg, a prominent Marxist revolutionary leader and theoretician, was martyred on January 15, 1919, in Berlin, Germany. She was only 47 years old. Born on March 5, 1871, in...

Corporate Exploitation

Joshimath – How Neoliberal Capitalism Destroyed An Entire City

Suryashekhar BiswasFebruary 1, 2023May 29, 2024

Joshimath is a city in Uttarakhand, located at the foot of the Himalayas. It is located at Zone V as per India’s seismic zonation scheme, which makes it geologically vulnerable,...

Corporate Exploitation

Mental Health Crisis Needs Radical Intervention – Not Piecemeal Makeovers

Suryashekhar BiswasJanuary 18, 2023March 20, 2024

(Trigger Warning: Mention of Suicide, Self-Harm) In December 2021, the Indian Institute of Science (Bangalore) removed ceiling fans from their hostels, in response to rise in student suicides. The irony...

Mental Health

Mental Health Crisis Needs Radical Intervention – Not Piecemeal Makeovers

Suryashekhar BiswasJanuary 1, 2023July 8, 2024