-- Dipankar Bhattacharya
Media reports coming from the CPI(M) Central Committee meeting held in Kolkata (19-21 January, 2018) indicate that the party is majorly divided on the issue of its current
-- Sandipan Talukdar
Assam witnessed for the first time in its history a big public assembly organized by RSS in Guwahati. The event was named “Luitporiya Hindu Xomabesh” - meaning “Hindu
Bullying Developing Countries for Profit
While Food Subsidies Are Distortion of Free Trade
The WTO 11th Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires concluded on 13 December 2017 without any understanding and failed to
-- Ardhendu Roy
The Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) bus service is Delhi’s lifeline – to combat life-threatening pollution, to ensure safe and reliable public transport for women, and as the go-to
It has now been sixty-eight years since the adoption of the Constitution of India on the 26th of November, 1949. While the adoption of the Constitution was obviously a landmark
A Peace and Goodwill March to be taken out on 21 December 2017 from the Town Hall at Udaipur by Left parties, PUCL, and Loktantrik Adhikar Evam Sadbhavana Manch (Democratic
Mobs such as the ‘Rajput Karni Sena’, various BJP leaders, and BJP State Governments of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh are acting in tandem to suppress freedom of expression
Victims of Racial Genocide by Myanmar Government, Communal Discrimination by Indian Government
no one leaves home unless
home is the mouth of a shark
you only run for the border
when you see the
-- Arindam Sen
Part I
Liberation joins the international celebration of 150 years of Karl Marx’s Magnum Opus at a time when the dominant discourse around possible ways and means
On 11 September 1893 Swami Vivekananda had addressed the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago. This year marks the 125th anniversary of that historic address. The BJP has cleverly
India: Stop Deporting Rohingya Refugees, Protect Them From Communal Violence
The Rohingya people of Myanmar are facing a genocide and ethnic cleansing at the hands of the Myanmar Army. The Rohingya
The much-trumpeted Goods and Services Tax has come into effect since July 1. It has been on the anvil for more than a decade. In that sense it stands in
Three Months of BJP Government in Uttarakhand
Indresh Maikhuri
The BJP came to power in Uttarakhand with a landslide victory in the March 2017 Assembly elections, securing 57 out of 70 seats
Kavita Krishnan
(This is an abridged version of a piece that appeared in scroll.in on 23 July 2017)
A Mumbai-based media company Culture Machine announced a new policy of offering women leave
With a call to Save Education, Save Country, AISA launched its nation-wide campaign at Gandhi Peace Foundation, Delhi on 22 July, against the Regime of Seat-Cut, NET-Cut, Fund-Cut and the
Marking one year since the public stripping and flogging of Dalits by a mob of cow-goons in Una, Gujarat, the Rashtriya Dalit Adhikar Manch (RDAM) called for an Azaadi Kooch
Pricol workers in Coimbatore went on a one day strike on 25 April 2017 in solidarity with the struggling peasantry of Tamilnadu. The management illegally invoked sections of the payment
The sorry state of Bihar’s schools is in the news again, with the declaration of the results of the Intermediate examination conducted by the Bihar School Examination Committee (run by
Punishing Politically Assertive, Self-Reliant Dalits
Who Refuse to be Foot Soldiers of Hindutva’s Hate Politics
(On 5 May, Dalits in Shabbirpur village of Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh were attacked. A CPI(ML)
Kavita Krishnan
Presenting India’s human rights record at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva during the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Process in May 2017, Indian Government representative, Attorney General
