New Delhi: Students at the University of Delhi – or at least a section of students, given the history of low voter turnout – will be voting for their students’ union representatives on Wednesday. In the run-up to the election, the campus has seen rhapsodic slogans, pamphlets distributed across (...)
It has been important for governments, both the Congress-led UPA and the BJP, to disguise their attacks on Adivasis, and now, in the case of the BJP, their attack on Dalits, as an attack on “Maoists” or “Naxals.”
This morning’s papers (August 30, 2018) settle something that we have been debating (...)
The state has been extending Azad’s detention under the National Security Act after its expiry every three months.
New Delhi: Thousands from around the country gathered in Delhi on August 19 under the banner of the Bhim Army from western Uttar Pradesh to demand the release of leader (...)
The reformist Dravidian movement in southern India never embraced the struggle of the ‘lowest’ castes.
It is quite common to read and listen to hagiographies when a prominent leader passes away. Given Karunanidhi’s stature as a leader who has been in public life for more than 60 years, it is (...)
India orders examination of all institutions run by her charity after claims against two staff
India has ordered the immediate inspection of all childcare homes run by the Missionaries of Charity, the Catholic congregation established by Mother Teresa, after employees at one shelter were (...)
The murder of 20 year old Communist and Dalit activist Abhimanyu M., a member of the Students’ Federation of India, is only the lastest crime of student goons linked to the mainstream Hindu nationalist BJP and opposition Congress parties. The struggle for control of India’s campuses is (...)
This follows the party’s successful strategy in Gujarat to partner mass leaders Jignesh Mevani, Hardik Patel and Alpesh Thakor.
After its partnership with civil society groups and leaders of mass movements came close to dethroning the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government in Gujarat in Assembly (...)
During the week of 6 to 12 March, the Long March of nearly 200 kilometres became the centre of attention for the entire national and state media. Print, electronic and social media resonated with the march.
It was truly an amazing struggle, the likes of which has not been seen in Maharashtra (...)
Concerns over the seemingly unstoppable juggernaut of the Hindu nationalist BJP government continuing in power into the indefinite future were partially allayed by the December elections in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat.
Modi was Gujarat’s longest ruling chief minister and (...)
West Bengal has an extremely poor record of implementing the Forest Rights Act (FRA), which is meant to atone for the ‘historic injustice’ committed against millions of marginalized and rights-deprived forest dwellers in the country. This report from the Groundxero independent media initiative. (...)
The recent self-immolation of a family in Tamil Nadu drew widespread attention to the issue of usury prevalent in the state. Following a hearing on the depositions of 60 borrower victims at a people’s tribunal in Tirunelveli district, an attempt has been made to examine the nature of the issue, (...)
It was the unlikeliest setting for a “literature festival”. A run-down auditorium with rickety chairs secured with rope. Noisy ceiling and pedestal fans. Battle scarred tables covered with threadbare cloth. But the first edition of the People’s Lit Fest, held in Kolkata, was designed to be just (...)
Is the Indian government really so short of funds that it feels forced to abandon its constitutional pledge to education?
At a time when public universities across the country are on the boil – at the behest of ruling-party cut-outs masquerading as vice-chancellors – the human resource (...)
Most well-funded social sector organisations don’t have any employees from the communities they are seeking to uplift.
A common thread across the spectrum of India’s social sector (read: development work-related organisations/NGOs/philanthropic foundations) and the development professionals I (...)
Ranchi (Jharkhand): In the last few months, Jharkhand’s food subsidy programme has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. People have died of starvation due to denial of “rations” (subsidised food). Ration entitlement has been linked to the Aadhaar personal ID system, leading to denial of (...)
Thanks to the Khattar government’s priorities, the Human Rights Commission has come to a virtual standstill while the “Gau Seva” (cow protection panel) flourishes.
New Delhi: Nearly five-and-a-half years after it was constituted during the Congress-led Bhupinder Singh Hooda regime, work in the (...)
While the issues around student aid have been raised for more than a year now, the last four days have seen large-scale protests at all TISS campuses.
Mumbai: What began as the struggle of some students belonging to marginalised sections of society studying at the premier Tata Institute of (...)
For comedians, 2017 has been a breakthrough year, when they didn’t shy away from taking down the rich, the famous and the powerful.
In October this year, a young comedian, competing in a television show on Star Plus, was told that his act imitating Prime Minister Narendra Modi would be dropped. (...)
The ‘World Social Security Report’ |1|, released in 2010, by ILO reported India’s dismal track-record of social security protection for its citizens. It further stated that Indians, especially the poor and the marginalized, suffers from “very high vulnerability” to poverty and informal labor (...)
Maharashtra’s multicultural milieu is marked by crucial contribution made by Muslims. The Sachar Committee Report, 2006 stated that the condition of Muslim in Maharashtra demands special attention of the state where the Muslim members are the biggest religious minority. Seven surveys (...)
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