Paradise Under Suspicion: Kashmir’s Unhealed Wounds
Kashmir is famous for its beauty: snow covered mountains, calm lakes, valleys full of flowers. But that is only the postcard version. Behind it are graves, prison cells, demolished homes...
Linking Rivers, Unlinking Lives!
Last month, adivasi protests in Madhya Pradesh made headlines. Their demonstrations progressed from Chita, Mitti, Jal and Phansi satyagraha – lying on funeral pyres, smearing mud on their bodies, submerging...
Street Vendor Evictions in Bengaluru: A State-led Crime Against the Working Class
In 2023, as Karnataka was heading for elections , the current Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi came to Bengaluru and held a convention with Powrakarmikas...
The Little Boy Rings the Warning Bell
It was predicted that India will experience below-average rainfalls this monsoon. The June rainfalls have already proved this, July too has followed the same trend. Inadequate rainfall has far-reaching consequences....
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...
Predictable Floods, Avoidable Disaster: Assam 2026
As floodwaters swallowed homes and highways across Assam in July 2026, Chief Minister Himanta Sarma pointed to a cloudburst in neighbouring Nagaland as a key trigger for the disaster. While...
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...
The Most Dangerous
Most treacherous is not the robbery of hard earned wages Most horrible is not the torture by the police. Most dangerous is not the graft for the treason and greed....
The People Will Sing!
The astounding silence of a minister of a fascist government while students died by suicide was the moment many of the upper-middle classes got a shocking, unsettling thought: "is our...
Students and Politics (1928)
This article was published in ‘Kirti‘ in July 1928 to address an important political issue. In those days several leaders used to advise the students to avoid participating in political...