Centre Wants to Amend the Indian Forest Act Again Despite the Resistance to Past Attempts
The environment ministry is once again attempting to ease rules in favour of the forest bureaucracy and private industries.
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Mining Act: Will the Centre Usurp the Powers of Mineral-Rich States?
The Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill 2021 will enable the Centre to interfere in the mineral rich states, most of which are ruled by non-BJP parties, and parcel off their mines to its favourites, and also usurp other powers so far vested with the State govts.
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Mouse Under the Throne: The Judicial Legacy of Sharad A. Bobde
Evasion, hypocrisy and duplicity marked the 17 month tenure of the outgoing Chief Justice of India, with the central executive ending up favoured each time. On the date of his retirement, not one of the five constitutional matters pending had been substantively heard or decided.
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On Ambedkar Jayanti, Revisiting: ‘The Annihilation of Caste’
On Ambedkar Jayanti, an extract from B.R. Ambedkar’s seminal, unspoken speech.
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Sankha Ghosh – Obituary, and Three Poems
The death of the litterateur ends the generation of post-Independence Bengali poets; also – three of his poems, translated from Bengali.
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In ‘Jalsaghar’, a Stubborn Landlord, a Chandelier with its Own Story, and Haunting Musical Soirees
Ahead of Satyajit Ray’s birth centenary, a reminder of the master director’s period drama, starring Chhabi Biswas in an unsurpassed performance.
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Ambedkar and the Call to Conversion!
If Ambedkar were alive and in Gujarat today, he and his followers would have been hauled up, fined and imprisoned under the provisions of the amendments of the ‘Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act’ which was passed by the Gujarat State Assembly on April 1, 2021.
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Ambedkar’s Legacy Lives on in Anti-Caste Peasants’ Movements
Ambedkarite peasant radicalism of the 1930s provided multiple avenues for Dalits to forge wide-ranging alliances with non-Dalit masses.
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Snapshots from Mahatma Jotirao Phule’s Life, Through the Eyes of His Close Aide
The translation of an essay by Govind Ganapat Kale from the 1981 Marathi book ‘Amhi Pahilele Phule’. The book is a compilation of recollections narrated by Jotirao Phule’s associates and contemporaries, compiled by Pandharinath Patil and edited by Sitaram Raikar.
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Two Reports from the Farmers’ Movement
India’s farm crisis: Mitti of the martyrs, Singhu’s soil of struggle; Ghazipur border: Protesting farmers to celebrate Baisakhi tomorrow, Samvidan Bachao Divas on Wednesday.
