Veterans Statement on India – China Stand-Off
144 Armed Forces Veterans write to the Government of India saying that the incident at Galwan could only have happened because of failure at one or more levels.
Save Country and Constitution from the Current Government
In a call to all progressive lawyers, Justice P.B. Sawant says that the powers that be are inimical to the Indian Constitution that is a culturally and socially transformative document
Athirappally Project: Lessons for Kerala from the Silent Valley Movement
Long before India understood the concept of ecology, a group of scientists and intellectuals saved a forest. Here’s how they did it and how it can be done again.
When Will India’s Educational Institutes Have Their ‘Dalit Lives Matter’ Moment?
Even as students at Princeton force a debate around diversifying faculty and student bodies, elite Indian institutions continue to be in a state of studied denial about Brahmanical supremacy.
Why Deaths Occur in Police Custody Everyday in India?
Our police is very cruel, authoritarian and law breaking: there are 5 deaths every day in custody in India.
Withdrawal from Galwan Valley Puts Indian Troops Further from LAC
Details of the mutual troop disengagement in the contested Galwan River valley illustrate that the Line of Actual Control (LAC) — the de facto border — has been effectively shifted by a kilometre into India.
Backstory: ‘Emergency’ by Any Other Name Cuts as Deep
It’s the death of irony when those who are taking state repression to a whole new level, passionately condemn state repression during the Emergency.
A Reminder That People Do Not Dissolve, Governments Do: Three Articles
The govt is trying to dissolve that very section of the people who are asserting their citizenship rights. But people do not dissolve except in moments of poetic irony, governments do. Two articles. And a statement by concerned civil servants on assault on Article 19 of the Constitution.
No Holy Cow in a Democracy
Sankara Narayanan There is a general tendency to name anyone questioning the activities of the armed forces engaged in war with an enemy nation as anti-national. This labelling also extends to the reporting of commission and omission of the armed forces operating against native Indian combatants in conflict zones such as Jammu & Kashmir, North-East…
How China and India Came to Lethal Blows
Beijing saw a threat in New Delhi’s steady improvement of borderland infrastructure and renewed Indian claims on disputed territory.