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....
Maharashtra’s New Draconian Law
Maharashtra stands at a dangerous crossroads. Maharashtra Special Public Security Act, has been passed, its language dripping with the rhetoric of ‘urban naxalism’. Its pages, however, hide a far more...
Ladakh Demands Statehood
Massive protests erupted in Leh on September 24 demanding statehood and inclusion of the region under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution. The police opened fire on protesters killing four...
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...
Justice Undone: Malegaon Blast Case Judgement
When bombs tore through the crowded lanes of Malegaon in 2008, killing six people and injuring over a hundred, it was assumed to be another in a series of Islamist...
The ‘Holy Cow’: Politics and Profits
Cow Vigilantes Raided Muslim Homes, Lynched A Man & Tortured A Minor - Article 14, 2024 India Emerges as Second Largest Beef Exporter in the World - The Wire, 2024...
NCERT Textbook Revisions: Learning through a Saffron Lens
History is the raw material for nationalist or ethnic or fundamentalist ideologies, as poppies are the raw material for heroin addiction. The past is an essential element, perhaps the essential...
Triple Language Policy: The Lakshadweep Chapter
On 30th May 2025, the people of Minicoy, the southernmost island of the Lakshadweep Archipelago, took to the streets in protest against the imposition of Hindi as a mandatory language...
Spark* Condemns the Cold-blooded Extrajudicial Murders of 27 Maoists Including the General Secretary of CPI (Maoist)Comrade Nambala Keshava Rao alias Basavaraju by the Indian State
In the morning of 21st May reports of this massive operation by the security forces surfaced followed by the jubilant Amit Shah applauding the forces for this ‘major breakthrough’. The...