Voices of Dissent Course Through the Country on September 23
Thousands of people came together to decry anti-labour, anti-farmer and anti-people laws passed by the Centre in recent days.
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Highlights of National Protest Day Called by Farmers’ Organisations on September 25
Protests were organised by farmers across the country in at least 5,000 places on September 25 against the three farm Bills. Farmers organisations have now given a call for Delhi Gherao on Nov. 26-27. Meanwhile, state governments of Kerala, Punjab, Rajasthan and Maharashtra have decided not to implement these farm bills in their states.
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The Many Legacies of Shankar Guha Niyogi
Niyogi and CMSS can offer intellectual and practical ideas on how to counter the normalisation of Hindutva discourse.
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Bhagat Singh Is Not the Man the Right Wants You to Think He Is
Bhagat Singh – who the Hindu Right tends to project as an antidote to the Congress and Gandhi – not only had close relations with Congress leaders, never paid allegiance to Hinduism, but also actually valued non-violence.
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Bhagat Singh Was a Thinking Individual, Not Just a Raw Nationalist
The image of him as a trigger-happy young man was deliberately publicised by the colonial government, which many of us internalised and continue to romanticise.
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New Wings for Socialism
What was missing in the old efforts to build a new socialist society was forgetting that along with building new material foundations, it is necessary to build new human beings; those early attempts tried to fly with things that only looked like wings.
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The Scientist as Rebel in the Indian Cultural Milieu
The dynastic blood relation as a prop for personal advancement is a fundamental theme of our cultural ethos, and it stifles original research and thinking in India.
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Arundhati Roy: Rebel With a Cause
In a world of conformists and cowards, Roy’s courage inspires and kindles hope.
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On Dr. Ambedkar’s Conversion
This is what the former CM of Tamil Nadu wrote while welcoming Dr Ambedkar’s decision to convert to Buddhism.
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Bhopal: A Toxic Tragedy Continues
Thirty-six years after the horrific gas leak, Union Carbide’s defunct pesticide plant continues to contaminate soil and groundwater.
