The Twin Crises of Education and Unemployment
The discussions on the recent protests have largely focussed on the nature of this generation of youth, their modes of expression, and so on. But we need to shift the...
Political Prisoners: From Bhagat Singh to BK-16
On September 13th, 1929, revolutionary Jatindra Nath Das (Jatin Das) was martyred after a 63-day hunger strike in Lahore Central Jail. Bhagat Singh, Jatin Das, and other Hindustan Socialist Republican...
SIR: A Karnataka Perspective
On 25 November 1949, Babasaheb Ambedkar warned that with the Constitution coming into force on 26 January 1950, India would enter a ‘life of contradictions’. He said “In politics we...
Whither Freedom? The Special Intensive Revision
The pain endured by the people of this land is not something that can be described in mere words! From the Aryans to the British, it has been 4,000 years...
Dharmendra Pradhan Resigns! What Next?
From dawn on Monday, July 20, students, young people with precarious employment, and families arrived in New Delhi from several Indian states to participate in the march called by the...
Anatomy of a Cockroach
The economic reforms of the 1990s, and the developments that followed, proved catastrophic for many sections of Indian society. Among those affected were the youth, who were crushed under ever-increasing...
The Moo Point
For years, the narrative that cow slaughter is the foulest and vilest deed above all has been propagated by the Indian media. Those who consume beef are labelled crude and...
Campus Democracy Returns: Karnataka’s Long-Overdue Reckoning with Student Politics
After 37 years of enforced silence, Karnataka's college campuses may soon hear something unfamiliar: the noise of student elections. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah announced in the 2026–27 State Budget the plan...
ABVP Strikes Again!
On May 4th, a group of people belonging to ABVP violently disrupted a final theatre performance at the department of theatre arts GB hall, University of Hyderabad, leaving several students...
NOIDA Workers’ Protest: Facing the State Down
The protest by factory workers in NOIDA, which made headlines in the mainstream media only when it turned violent, is a struggle against inhumane working and living conditions, worsened by...