UPDATES ON PEOPLE’S MOVEMENTS
Activists Protest Against TCS Mass Layoffs In a devastating move, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) initiated mass layoffs affecting over 12,200 employees. In connection to this, members of the IT and...
UPDATES ON STUDENTS MOVEMENTS
Students Across Karnataka Demand Recruitment of Lecturers Students of government degree colleges in Kalaburagi, Ballari, Vijayanagara, and Koppal boycotted classes on September 27th. The boycott comes in response to the...
Murder in the Name of ‘Honour’
In a horrific incident that shook Kalaburagi’s Melakunda village, an 18-year old girl from the Lingayat community named Kavita Kollura, was brutally murdered by her father and relatives over her...
The Sharavathi Pumped Storage Project: Development at the Cost of Nature and People
What is the Sharavathi Pumping Storage Project? The Karnataka Power Corporation Limited (KPCL) has proposed the Sharavathi Pumped Storage Project (PSP), a 2,000 MW hydropower scheme in the Sharavathi Valley,...
The Himalaya in Labour
The month of September has heralded a popular uprising in the neighbouring country of Nepal that is landlocked on three sides by India. The uprising in Nepal widely dubbed by...
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...
Operation Kagar: A Precursor to Nationwide Violence
Professor G Hargopal, a human rights activist who has been advocating for the Adivasis of Bastar for many years, was the second speaker at the public discussion on Operation Kagar....
The Steep Rise in Atrocities in Bastar
Soni Sori, activist and champion of Adivasi rights from Bastar, Chattisgarh, was the first speaker at the ‘Stop The War on Adivasis’ public discussion held on 23rd August. Her speech...
The Human Cost of Liberalization, Privatization, and Globalization (LPG) in the Agriculture Sector
Farmer suicides slip in and out of our collective consciousness. Every once in a while, news of farmer suicides cause minor outrages among the urban middle class. These become election...
Socialist Industrialisation: Stalin and Construction of the Soviet Economy
The conversion of our country from an agrarian into an industrial country able to produce the equipment it needs by its own efforts - that is the essence, the basis...