Category: Current
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The G20 Story: India’s War Against People on Public Display
“Many developing countries are struggling with unsustainable debt, while trying to ensure food and energy security for their people. They are also the ones most affected by global warming caused by richer countries. This is why India’s G20 Presidency has tried to give a voice to the Global South. No group can claim global leadership…
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Wrestlers’ Protest: An Arena for Brahmanical Patriarchy
Wrestlers in India who have won acclaim across Indian and international platforms have been protesting at Jantar Mantar, Delhi from 5th April. The protests started when allegations of sexual harassment against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) President and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of Parliament (MP) Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh went public in January 2023,…
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Mann Ki Baat: Nazi Propaganda of the Indian Type
In the age of neo-colonial tactics, tactical and strategic advancement of mass propaganda of fascist ideology goes hand-in-hand. Every class-based society uses different propaganda mechanisms to justify their moral and ideological positions along with cohesive forces. A state cannot purge the entirety of its class of enemies and therefore opt for using the contradiction of…
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Manipur is Burning: Possibilities and Solutions
Manipur is burning, and the oil fuelling this hellfire is an enemy we know all too well. Over the past couple of years, the Meiteis in the plains have been demanding a Scheduled Tribe (ST) categorization in the state, much to the chagrin of the minority tribals, the Kuki community, who dwell largely in the…
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Revisiting Political Prisoners Question: Building the United Struggle Against Fascism
Judiciary is dubbed as one of the 4 pillars of democracy. When all hope is lost, we are told to put faith in the judiciary’s ability to deliver the right democratic justice. I remember the words of Justice Krishna Iyer, “If every saint has a past, every sinner has a future, and it is the…
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Joshimath: The Battlefield of Imperialism’s War on Earth
Geography and space are not merely about physical features. It is not just the things that we can feel, see or touch; it also occupies a space in human relations. The dialectic of ecological colonialism is intricate, weaving the death and destitution of both the people and environment with the imperial project of valorisation of…
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Imperialist Development: The RSS Economic Model
“I wrote more than 12 articles within 3 months against Ambani in 1986. I tried to expose the shell companies functioning and the bank credit crisis, which was rising at that time,” Swaminathan Gurumurthy, in an interview with the Caravan magazine. But when the journalist inquired about Gurumurthy’s thoughts regarding the recent Hindenburg report which…
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Rahul Gandhi’s Disqualification from the Parliament: Intensification of Fascism?
“One of the most crucial questions was whether Asian democracy could compete with Asian Communism unless it, too, organized its village efforts on a massive scale…. [Jawaharlal] Nehru said that history had selected India as one of the democracy’s testing grounds. This was a contest which he and India welcomed, a challenge which must be…
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