Fly Me to the Moon: Decoding ISRO Chair’s Tall Claims
For the past twenty years, I have minutely searched the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Puranas, Shastras, astrology books, and ancient texts on science but have failed to trace any root...
Che: The Eternal Revolutionary
“In executing the man, they gave birth to the legend.” -Eduardo Galeano “I believe in the armed struggle as the only solution for people who fight to free themselves, and...
Hypocrisy of Hindutva (Part 2): Vajpayee’s Great Indian Sale
In the preceding part [1], we explored how the origin and resurgence of Hindutva and its chief proponent Rastriya Swayam Sevak Sangh (RSS) happened first in the lap of British...
Advocacy Beyond Classrooms: The Need for Student Unions
Student unions have a bold and longstanding history of defending democratic rights in India. Along with workers and peasants, students have played an active part in numerous mass movements throughout...
Remembering the first ‘9/11’- Beyond the “Allende Romanticisation”
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the US-backed Chilean coup d'état of 11 September 1973 which led to the death and torture of thousands, the overthrow of Chile's elected...
Why the Bombings on Adivasi Villages?
On 7th April 2023, the Indian government dropped bombs aerially with the help of drones on the Bhattum, Kavurugatta, Meenagatta and Jabbagatta villages of Bastar district, Chhattisgarh. This is the...
When Prestige Overrules Nature
Last year in September, on the PM’s birthday, eight African cheetahs were moved all the way from Namibia to Kuno National Park, Madhya Pradesh. Despite the controversy and objections from...
Privatizing Research: Examining the NRF Bill
“Where do correct ideas come from?…they come from three kinds of social practice, the struggle for production, the class struggle and scientific experiment." - Mao Tse-tung The central government has...
Legalised Plunder
In this age of corporate loot, the Government of India has paved a new way for private corporations to loot the natural resources in a much more audacious manner with...
Money, Childhood, Toys, and Happiness
Perhaps many of us have played ghar-ghar (in this game we pretend to be old and act like running a household by playing different roles) in our childhood. I played...