The song of a caged bird: A tribute to Fr Stan Swamy
His death is institutional murder by the Indian criminal justice system.
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Stan Swamy, the Guardian Angel of Social Movements in Jharkhand
One can find hundreds of committed and fearless activists, scholars and lawyers in the state who drew their inspiration from him.
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Stan, Now Part of the Adivasi Folklore of Resistance – Judicial and Jail Systems Guilty in ‘Death by Default’
Fr Stan Swamy, the Jesuit, has now become part of the Adivasi folklore of resistance. He is also a martyr to their cause of protecting their heritage, their ‘Jal, Jangal, Zameen’ from the lusting eyes of the men in political power and their crony corporate friends.
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Killing Him Softly With His Song: A Requiem for Father Stan Swamy
The entire episode leaves behind a feeling that Stan Swamy was virtually thrust a sentence of death without charges being framed against him and without a trial.
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Father Stan Swamy – Two Poems
Father Stan Swamy; Swamy and Friends: A Poem.
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Former Bureaucrats, Civil Society Express “Deep Anguish” on Violations and Breakdown of Governance in UP
In their open letter, they condemn the ‘complete breakdown’ of governance and blatant violation of the rule of law in Uttar Pradesh, and say that the Yogi Adityanath government has “ushered in a model of governance which swerves further and further away from the values of the Constitution”.
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A Young Farmer Leader on how Seven Months of Protests Created Democratic Spaces
Rajinder Singh Deepsinghwala, the vice president of the Kirti Kisan Union, says that despite their core demands not being met, the past seven months of protests had won a major victory in how they had democratised politics in northern India.
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Why Gandhi’s Use of Oxygen as a Metaphor during the Freedom Struggle has Resonance for India Today
Freedom of opinion and freedom of association are ‘the two lungs that are absolutely necessary for a man to breathe the oxygen of liberty’, he wrote.
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In the Time of Legitimate Despair, India Needs Unreasonable Hope
It is imperative to ‘be unreasonable’ in a dark time! Not only does it keep hope alive in oneself, but it also inspires it in others, too. Despair may be contagious, but courage is much more so.
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India’s Farmers and the Neoliberal Playbook
In Mexico, as transnational companies have seized control of the country’s agriculture, the loss of food sovereignty has induced catastrophic changes to the nation’s diet and many small-scale farmers lost their livelihoods. It should serve as a warning to India, as that is what the three farm laws will lead to.
