‘Collateral Murder’: Post Script
Before he killed himself, 30-year-old Iraq veteran Danny Holmes would often sit in front of his computer screen looking at photographs of the children killed by the US army during the Iraq war.
Revolutionary Black Resistance has a Long Tradition
Today when we say “Black Lives Matter!” we are echoing the calls of countless warriors before us – starting from the uprising led by Nat Turner – and claiming that tradition as our present and future.
Prashant Bhushan and the Gandhian Response to an ‘Illegitimate Law’
By evoking Gandhi in the Supreme Court’s contempt proceedings, the lawyer has contextualised the need to ‘test’ all laws to see if they further the quest for justice instead of simply being etched in stone.
When the Powers That Be Are in Contempt of the People
In the past year, we have seen such blatant disregard of freedom of expression, and such bias in the application of law, that it is difficult not to wonder if the right to dissent is restricted to a select few.
How – and Why – ‘Jana Gana Mana’ Became India’s National Anthem
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, who was instrumental in making it the anthem of the INA, particularly appreciated its pan-India and secular reach.
Don’t be Hoodwinked by Trump’s UAE-Israel “Peace Deal”
It is nothing more than a scheme to give an Arab stamp of approval to Israel’s status quo of land theft, home demolitions, and other abuses of Palestinian rights.
COVID-19, Marxism, and the Metabolic Rift
Marx’s groundbreaking work on the relationship between human society and nature can help us understand the destructive dynamics underlying the Covid pandemic.
‘Kya Hum Sachh Mein Azaad Hai?’
As feminists committed to democratic values, we ask, ‘where is the real independence, the real freedom for citizens to think, speak, write, educate, agitate, organize, resist, dissent or question?’
Milords on the Bench Have a Choice: To Serve Colonial Law or Constitutional Precept
The law was born out of subjugation in empire and the constitution conceived in the struggle against subjugation. They sit uneasily on a bench etched with the Ashokan emblem of the state.
Jammu & Kashmir: One Year after Abrogation of Article 370 – Increasing Alienation, Relentless Repression, Simmering Conflict
PUCL appeals that the Government of India urgently listen to the people of J&K, initiate dialogue and restore peace.