As an Indian Muslim, Here’s Why I Object to Dhannipur Complex Being Built in Lieu of Babri Masjid
By accepting land in lieu of justice, Muslims have sanctified their secondary status as a community that does not need justice.
The Techfare State: The ‘New’ Face of Neoliberal State Regulation
Neoliberalism has yielded specific forms of state intervention to discipline and normalize the surplus population and to regulate social insecurity – workfare, debtfare, and prisonfare. They have also enormously benefited the growth and profitability of Big Tech.
Stan Swamy’s Endurance Has Left a Message for the World
The Archbishop, who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011, writes that 84-year old Father Stan Swamy who had spent decades serving the tribal people of Jharkhand, has been arrested on trumped up charges and confined to jail for nearly a year now. As he battles illness, his endurance has left a message for the world.
‘Release the Bhima Koregaon 16 Immediately’: Nobel Laureates, EU MPs Write to Indian Authorities
The signatories, including Noam Chomsky and Olga Tokarczuk, sought that the temporary order to release prisoners in light of COVID-19 be applied to these political prisoners as well.
Remembering Birsa Munda, the Social Reformer and Revolutionary Leader
For the Hindutva movement, Birsa Munda is an icon only because he and his followers attacked missionaries and the church. But this is a deliberate misreading of history and a willful deception.
Academic Freedom Is at Stake. We Must Stand in Solidarity With Professor Gilbert Sebastian.
Teachers have a right to have their opinion. They do not have to set aside their political opinions and ideologies before entering a classroom.
Appointment of Justice Arun Mishra as Chairperson, NHRC: Another Move to Subvert & Destroy Democratic Institutions
We, the members of various Human Rights Organisations and Concerned individuals, condemn the appointment of former SC Judge, Shri Arun Kumar Mishra, as the next Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of India by the selection Committee headed by the PM.
Flickering Flame: The Battle Against Sedition Is Far From Over
It’s the systemization of harassment and the weaponization of every possible piece of law to persecute opponents and critics of the government that are extenuating individual freedoms and civil liberties. So, while the Supreme Court’s decision to review the constitutional validity of Section 124A is welcome, it is not enough.
Understanding Peru’s Elections from the Peasant Patrols to Fujimorism
Interview with Santos Saavedra Vásquez, the president of the National United Center of Rural and Urban Peasant Patrols of Peru, on the upcoming second round of presidential elections in Peru, and they mean for the rural, peasant and Indigenous communities of the country.
UP Assembly Elections: What’s in Store
An analysis of the recent UP panchayat election results and 2017 election results indicates that it is possible for a SP-led Opposition alliance to defeat the BJP in the coming UP assembly elections, even without the support of the BSP.