AISA-led Left Unity Defeats ABVP in JNUSU Election
The AISA-led Left Unity alliance—comprising AISA, SFI and DSF—won a decisive victory in the 2025–26 JNUSU elections held on 4 November, the second election in the same year. Comrade Aditi...
The Socio-Educational Survey in Karnataka
Karnataka’s ongoing caste and socio-economic survey has brought many discussions and debates to the surface. The survey aims to collect information about people’s social, educational, and economic backgrounds to understand...
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...
From Citizens to Suspects: How SIR is Reshaping Karnataka’s Voter Rolls
The Constitution of India proclaims a nation built on equality, where every citizen’s voice holds power, and freedom could never be taken away. Today, that principle is quietly being reversed....
Solidarity on Political Prisoners Day!
96 years ago, under the British colonial regime, Jatin Das, a 24-year old revolutionary was martyred in jail on 13th September, after a 63-day hunger strike. This hunger strike by...
Voter Deletion is Voter Selection
The recent uproar over mass voter deletions in Bengaluru and the nationwide Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls exposed the hollowness of the hallowed Indian democracy. These exercises have...
The Long-buried secrets of Dharmasthala
For a long time the powerful Manjunatha temple of Dharmasthala has been at the centre of crimes and controversies. In the first week of July a former sanitation worker from...
Unmasking the Waqf Amendment Bill: Whom is it helping?
In 2024, the Modi government introduced the Waqf Amendment Bill, claiming it was meant to improve the Waqf Act of 1995. But behind this technical facade lies a much more...
Deciphering the Political Ambit of Delimitation Exercise
The Joint Action Committee (JAC) led by Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin saw a major push against delimitation. The main assertion of the JAC is to extend the constitution freeze...
Saffronisation Through the Three Language Policy
India as a diverse union of nationalities, comprises 4,635 ethnic groups that speak languages from four major linguistic families: Dravidian, Indo-European, Austro-Asiatic, and Tibeto-Burman. On July 29, 2020, as the...