Population ‘Explosion’ to Low Fertility: India’s Demographic Anxieties Play Out on Women’s Bodies
Women continue to be treated as instruments to serve demographic goals rather than as individuals who have personal freedom.
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India’s Migrants: Exclusion by Design
Migrant workers fuel India’s growth yet remain excluded from its rewards. Policy silences and regional inequalities sustain their exploitation, and caste hierarchies have been reconfigured within neoliberal urban economies to normalise their exclusion from the nation’s systems.
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Have We All Forgotten Sanjiv Bhatt?
We speak of democracy, freedom, and justice—but sometimes nations betray their bravest voices. Sanjiv Bhatt, once a senior police officer who dared to speak uncomfortable truth about the 2002 Gujarat carnage, sits in prison. His crime? Not murder. Not corruption. But refusal to bow before power.
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Faux Welfare
India has replaced genuine welfare—education, health, justice, and environmental care—with short-term handouts that buy loyalty but stunt progress.
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Grieving the Loss of Zubeen Garg, Assam’s Che – Two Articles
‘Zubeen Garg and His All Embracing and Inclusive Interpretation of Assam’: He did not want to be boxed into any particular identity, calling himself a socialist. Also: ‘Grieving the Loss of Zubeen Garg, Assam’s North Star’.
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“Sorry, Stan!”
On 9 August, St Xavier’s College Mumbai was scheduled to hold ‘The Annual Stan Swamy Memorial Lecture’. On 4 August, representatives of the ABVP met the college authorities and demanded its cancellation. Very sadly, the Jesuit management and other officials cancelled the lecture. For this, “Sorry, Stan!”
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Living in the Shadow of Jail, Torture: The Account of Two Muslims Acquitted of Terror
Over the past decade, a series of ‘terrorism’ cases have crumbled. The ‘terror innocents’ who walk free only face a life of unfreedom.
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Release Umar Khalid; On Recent Events in the Tijmali Region, Odisha – 2 Press Releases
160 artists and scholars have issued an open letter seeking the release of Umar Khalid, a student activist and former research scholar at the JNU. Also: Adivasi and Dalit communities of Kashipur and Thuamal Rampur blocks in Odisha protest against the proposed bauxite mining project of Vedanta Ltd.
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This Once Great Country Has Lost Its Soul
Like the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s macabre novel 1984, PM Modi’s regime has waged war on truth, doctoring statistics and other indices of performance; even going to the extent of lobbying international agencies to bump up India’s position in the global rankings.
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Remembering Madhu Limaye, the Socialist Stalwart
Madhu Limaye (1st May 1922-8th January 1995) was a committed socialist, a distinguished parliamentarian, champion of civil liberties, a prolific writer and dedicated to the cause of the common man of the country. He played a pivotal role in the freedom movement and later in the liberation of Goa from the Portuguese.
