From HRA to HSRA: Socialism in India’s Freedom Struggle
Revolution means the complete overthrow of the existing social order and its replacement with the socialist order. For that purpose our immediate aim is the achievement of power. As a...
Centralising Bengaluru: The Greater Bengaluru Authority and the Erosion of Local Self-Governance
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) was officially dissolved in September 2025, being replaced by the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) as per the Greater Bengaluru Governance Act (GBG Act) passed by...
UPDATES ON STUDENT MOVEMENTS
Medical Student’s Suicide Sparks Protest in Jharkhand Students at Manipal Tata Medical college in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, protested administrative negligence after MBBS student Divyanshu Pandey died by suicide on August 22....
UPDATE ON PEOPLE’S MOVEMENTS
KSRTC and BMTC Employees Struck Work Demanding Better Wages BMTC and KSRTC employees went on a state-wide strike on 5th August demanding a payment of arrears for a period of...
‘Singara’ Chennai and the Battle for Livelihood
Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains. You have a world to win. - (Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels) On July 31st, around 2,000...
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...
Stop the War on Adivasis
Let us declare that the state of war does exist and shall exist so long as the Indian toiling masses and the natural resources are being exploited by a handful...
Keezhadi: The Buried Truth
There's no such thing as the 'voiceless.' There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard. - Arundhati Roy For decades, the instilled memory of Indian history has been...
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...
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...