First edition of Nazariya Magazine, themed “Imperialism: In and Out” released on 18th March, 2023 in the form of a physical magazine. Contact us for your copy!
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Revisiting the Constitution Part 1: Rule of Law, A Myth Among Unequals
This is part one of a four part series on the Indian Constitution. “A constitution of myth and denials” is the phrase Sarat Chandra Bose has used to describe the Indian Constitution. The Constitution of India is a living, breathing document; meant to reflect the principal values of the Indian society. However, what does it…
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State Surveillance: The Need for Mass Resistance For Your Own Security
“This company knows much more about me than my family does,” says an employee at Workday, a firm which sells software to help managers predict which employees are likely to quit. This is not an isolated incident. The state and big corporations are working hand-in-hand to commodify the personal data of civil society. Few of…
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पंचायत चुनाव : लोकतांत्रिक व्यवस्था की आड़ में एक ढकोसला
पंचायती राज व्यवस्था की ऐतिहासिक पृष्ठभूमि को समझने के लिए हमारे समाज के इतिहास के गर्भकाल में जाना होगा। सन् 1947 ई० को अंग्रेजों ने भारत की सत्ता को एक समझौते के तहत, भारतीय दलाल शासक वर्ग को सौंप दी। कहने को तो भारत आजाद हो गया पर अंग्रेजों द्वारा खड़ा किया गया राजनीतिक व…
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Indian State and Unending Lies on Kashmir
They want us to write. in blood. and only write. of peace. A poem by Ather Zia which often echoed at different protest sites in Kashmir has reached a step forward since the abrogation of Article 370 back in 2019. While the BJP is busy claiming that the abrogation of article 370 has led to…
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Arikkad Varghese: Death Anniversary of An Immortal Comrade
February 18, 2023 marks the fifty-third anniversary of the first encounter killing in Kerala. This was also one of the earliest encounters in independent India. Arikkad Varghese was the man who was brutally murdered fifty-three years ago, a man who was part of the revolutionary struggle in Kerala and who had led the Adivasis in…
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नियोगी का ट्रेड यूनियन आन्दोलन नेतृत्व में महत्व और वर्तमान आन्दोलन को सीख
“अन्याय के खिलाफ, दमन के खिलाफ, जनता की हिंसा भड़क उठना अस्वाभाविक नहीं है। जब तक एक वर्ग द्वारा दूसरे वर्ग को दबाया जायेगा तब तक यह सब वर्ग संघर्ष के चालू नियम से ही होता रहेगा।” – शंकर गुहा नियोगी मध्य भारत में जब मजदूर आन्दोलन की बात होती है तो छत्तीसगढ़ के एक…
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Defeat the Ruling Class Prop of Post-Modernist Identitarian Thoughts Through Active Ideological Struggle!
Introduction: Imperialism On the Offensive At times when the world imperialist crisis advances towards its apex, revolutionary conditions also objectively emerges in various parts of the world. The capitalists’ failing imperialist economy has given rise to mass hunger, destitution, and deaths due to lack of health facilities, job losses and highly entangled social lives. The…
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Imperialism in the Air: Political Economy of Airports in India
Airports and the ability to fly have always been considered one of the hallmark emblems of so-called development. In the current regime’s bid to march towards what is being branded as ‘New India’, the airport policy requires a key scrutiny in the direction where this supposed development is rapidly taking place. Of particular interest should…
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क्या सिर्फ मतदान ही लोकतंत्र का सम्मान है?
क्या आपने पहले कभी दिल्ली नगर निगम के चुनाव को इतने–ताम झाम से होते हुए देखा है?अगर नहीं, तो यह सवाल उठता है कि इस बार ये चुनाव देश भर में क्यों चर्चित रहा ?सिर्फ कूड़े के पहाड़,यमुना सफाई अभियान,हाउस टैक्स माफ़ी,फैक्ट्री के लाइसेंस की माफी,पर्यावरण ही नहीं बल्कि जेल में भ्रष्टाचार के आरोप में…
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Quarterly Overview of Global and Regional Situation: September to December 2022
Across The World The crisis of imperialism is sharpening with an impending global recession that is all but guaranteed. Economic crisis in the imperialist centres is causing untold suffering to the toiling masses across the world. Food and fuel prices have pushed the rate of inflation in the United States1 and the United Kingdom to…
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Political Economy of New Forest Conservation Rules in India
The Indian state has actively supported the encroachment of the imperialist capital in collaboration with feudal elements on the lands of marginalized communities and the natural resources of India. The latest amendment to the rules of the Forest Conservation Act of 1980, called the Forest Conservation Rules 2022, is a legal vehicle to ensure that…
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Movie Review: The White Tiger (2021)
Balram Halwai’s life turned upside down when he finally decided to leave his grandmother’s house and dreamt of a new journey with Ashok, the fancy non-resident Indian son of the local landlord. The film The White Tiger (2021) is based on the Man-Booker prize winning eponymous novel by Arvind Adiga. The book continuous to be…
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Hindus vs Muslims: Manufacturing Communal Violence at the Service of Fascism
As elections are about to ramp up in Bangladesh, an old tape that is common in all of South Asia plays its record once again. Stories of violence against the minorities become more and more prominent and political dissent is actively attacked in the garb of preserving “communal harmony.” Currently, members of the Bangladesh Nationalist…
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Lachit Borphukan, Tipu Sultan and the Making of Heroes and Villains Through Brahmanical Hindutva Fascist Propaganda
During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their…
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Imperialism at the Wheels: Re-evaluating the Indian Queer Movement
In 2014, the Indian Supreme Court passed a verdict in favour of recognizing the legal right to gender self-determination, legally recognizing for the first-time rights of transgender persons in the Indian context.1 Subsequently in 2018, the same court overturned various other jurisprudence to declare Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code unconstitutional for its parts…
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Kishau Dam: Another Story of Dispossession
Geographical phenomenon impacts the life far beyond the physical boundaries of geography alone. To understand this, it is important to highlight that the categorisation of subjects into separate disciplines and the notion of specialization of work are predicated on the targets of the modern market based supply and demand economy. This disciplinary division has created…
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Lessons From Ngugi Wa Thiong’o For Us
Amnesty International declared Ngugi Wa Thiong’o as ‘the Prisoner of Conscience’.1 He is an intellectual who firmly took a stand against his own governing system which was working in the interest of imperial capital . It is monopolistic in nature. In 20th century, when most of the developed capitalist countries accumulated immense surplus and advanced…
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How Do We Break The Bonds of Caste?
We are living in an age where democratic demands and assertions by the people are seen as a crime against the state by the state. For the people these demands are necessary for a dignified life. But what demands are democratic? Is it a homogeneous concept for everyone? Usually, our practice comes from our class…
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The Inevitability of Revolution
Over a century ago, a 25-year-old trade-union leader in Italy made an earnest appeal to the workers. He asked them to reject bourgeois newspapers, to boycott them. He reminded every worker that, “he must always, always, always remember that the bourgeois newspaper (whatever its hue) is an instrument of struggle motivated by ideas and interests…
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Perspective of Nazariya
The deepening crisis of imperialist capital in the underdeveloped countries of the world has seen an astonishing spread of anti-intellectualism alongside post-modern identitarian trends in the intellectual sphere. In addition, the current climate of the onslaught of Brahmanical Hindutva Fascism has brought with it religious and regional chauvinism, caste supremacy and deepened petit-bourgeois cynicism. Most…
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