Education in Karnataka
Gurumurthy Kasinathan, with editorial inputs from Sadaf Wani In 2009, India enacted the Right to Education Act(i), making education the fundamental right of every Indian child between the ages of...
Educating for a Hateful Tomorrow
“No one is born with hate in their heart. Hate is something that has been taught. It is not an innate survival skill that we need; It is a form...
Spring Thunder over India: Remembering Naxalbari
The decade of the 1960s witnessed a paradigm shift in the left politics of India. The Great Debate between Khrushchev's revisionist theory of “peaceful transition” and the revolutionary theory of...
The Apocalypse
The United States of America, which houses a mere 6% of the world’s population, consumes 33% of the world’s non-renewable raw materials. This level of consumption, which most models of...
Freedom Confined to a Park
Protest is a tool in the hands of the masses used to express their dissent with the state. Be it the 8 hour work day movement where workers fought for...
Hypocrisy of Hindutva (Part 1): Origin and Resurgence
A newly introduced chapter in class 8 textbook of Kannada language uses fiction to glorify Savarkar as a "Veer" nationalist icon. This is part of the Sangh brigade’s efforts to...
Babasaheb Ambedkar on the Land Question
As the 132nd birthday of Dr. Ambedkar is approaching and the capital has witnessed historic resistance from the farmers recently, the agrarian crisis, land question, and related rights have resurfaced...
Messengers of Hate: The Dangerous Similarities between Indian Media and Radio Rwanda
“If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” - Malcolm X In February,...
Space Age: The Soviet Experience- Part IV”
"And if I am still determined to make this flight, it is because I am a Communist, because I am following the example of the dauntless heroism of my compatriots—the...
Justice Denied to the family of Hathras Rape and Murder Victim in Yogi’s Uttar Pradesh
On 14th September 2020, four upper caste men gang-raped a Dalit woman in Hathras, Yogi’s Uttar Pradesh. About two and half years later, three out of four of the (Ramu,...