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Ten years ago Narendra Modi came to power with the promises of ushering in Achhe Din or better days, recovering black money, and creating one crore jobs every year. He got a...

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OP Jindal University’s Clampdown on Student Expression and Free Speech

adminFebruary 2, 2024June 27, 2024

A Student from Jindal On February 9th, the administration of OP Jindal Global University took suo moto cognisance of a public discussion titled 'Ram Mandir: A farcical project of Brahmanical...

Struggles and Movements

Bhumkal: The Historic Uprising Against British Colonialism

SushantFebruary 1, 2024March 20, 2024

Adivasis in India have suffered oppression and exploitation for centuries. British colonialists intensified this cruelty by exploiting the rich mineral and forest resources in Adivasi- inhabited areas. They passed forest...

Caste Fascism

RELEASE BK16! REPEAL UAPA!

adminJanuary 19, 2024August 7, 2024

On 1st January 1818, a small battalion of 800 men including many Mahars, a Dalit sub-caste defeated a massive army of over 25,000 men headed by Peshwa Bajirao II. Although...

Education

Deconstructing New Education Policy: Karnataka in Context

adminJanuary 19, 2024March 19, 2024

In the following decade after the second World War, one of the most baffling questions which haunted many thinkers was something to do with German Masses. How could the Germans...

Fascism

India’s Fascist Democracy

Anand TeltumbdeJanuary 19, 2024May 27, 2024

On May 2, 2017, the present ruling dispensation eventually confirmed the suspicions of sceptics about India being a democracy. The Attorney General, Mukul Rohatgi, told a Supreme Court bench of...

EDITORIAL

Unravelling of a ‘Democracy’: India 2024

adminJanuary 19, 2024May 27, 2024

“A Single Spark can Start a Prairie Fire” So goes the old Chinese saying much popularised by Comrade Mao through his writings. When we ideated and realised this magazine a...

Education

Industrial Training Institute Fiasco

SharathJanuary 19, 2024March 19, 2024

Industrial Training Institutes or ITIs are institutions to render industrial training to students who are going to become productive forces in different industries across the country. The course is given...

Cover Struggles and Movements

Government Breaches Trust, Citizens Breach Security

SreegangaJanuary 18, 2024March 19, 2024

On 13th December 2023, a loud and clear statement was made by four youths when two of them opened smoke canisters inside the Parliament chamberand raised slogans against dictatorship, highlighting...

Fascism Kashmir

The Hon’ble Supreme Court Blesses the Abrogation of Article 370

SushantJanuary 18, 2024May 27, 2024

“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” ~ Chinua Achebe On Dec 11, 2023, the five-judge constitutional bench of the Supreme Court,...

Then They Came for Me

The ABCs Under Fascism

Stand in Solidarity with Azim Premji University Students

Political Ecology of Nagarhole: A Tale of Exploitation and Resistance

30 Questions and a Solution to Start Off Your Year

Bengaluru’s Tunnel Project: A Corporate Scam Pushed as ‘Development’

Farmers of Anekal vs. State of Karnataka

The Himalaya in Labour

Devanahalli Farmers Create History

Defuse the Ticking Bomb of Climate Crisis: The Path to Climate Justice is Red

Promises Made and Evaded by the Congress in Karnataka

Educate,Agitate,Organise

Lights, Camera, Propaganda: Disseminate Hate and Eliminate the Truth

The Bureaucratization of Gender in Ramrajya Through the Trans Act 2026

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