January 2016

Against the Sell-out Indian Higher Education in WTO As the Modi Government geared up to sell the future of students of India by ‘offering’ Indian Higher education in WTO up as

If there is one message that resonated across India all through 2015, a resonance that can only grow in the coming days as the Indian people battle their way against

Fight the Double Life Imprisonment for Trade Union Activists ! Eight workers: sentenced to two lifetimes in jail – for the ‘crime’ of fighting for workers’ rights. Eight leading activists of the Kovai

(A slightly expanded and updated version of an article by Kavita Krishnan, courtesy Quartz India, November 27, 2015) Constitution Day, in parliament, should, at the very least, have been a day to

Twenty-three years after the vandals of the Sangh Parivar had demolished the Babri Masjid in brazen defiance of India's history of composite culture and every tenet of the rule of

In the wake of the Paris attack by the ISIS, we are seeing the efforts of right-wing and far-right political forces worldwide to try to garner support that has hitherto

Early in the morning on 14 November, Malu Paik, a 42 years old permanent worker of Dumchipara Tea Garden near Madarihat in Dooars, died. The cause of death is termed

“The rhetoric of governance in India has nowadays become pretty elaborate and sophisticated. Every government waxes eloquent about ‘good governance’ rooted in principles of accountability, sensitivity, empowerment, administrative efficiency, disaster

Cheen-o-arab hamaaraa, Hindostaan hamaaraaRehne ko ghar nahin hai, saaraa jahaan hamaaraa Kholi bhi chin gayi hai, benchein bhi chin gaye hainSadkon pe ghoomtaa hai, ab kaarvaan hamaaraa Jebeain hai apni

Convention in Bihar The CPI(ML) Bihar State committee organized a People’s Convention in Patna on 3 December to discuss the implications of the recent Bihar election results and the role of

“If the law supposes that, the law is a ass — a idiot. …the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience — by

You can be branded a criminal in a BJP ruled state even if you deliver a lecture defending Hinduism from what you call ‘derogatory’ misinterpretation by Western scholars! If you’re

Vidrohi died as he had lived – surrounded by students out on a protest march. He came to Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi as a student – but was thrown

Benedict Anderson Benedict Anderson (1936–2015) was the Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Government and Asian Studies at Cornell University, New York. He passed away in Indonesia on December