The song of a caged bird: A tribute to Fr Stan Swamy
His death is institutional murder by the Indian criminal justice system.
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.
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.
Father Stan Swamy – Two Poems
Father Stan Swamy; Swamy and Friends: A Poem.
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.
In Modi’s India, Being a Tribal Woman Is an Act of Resistance
Adivasi communities continue heroically to fight to protect their lands. In doing so, they’re protecting all our futures. Because, more than anyone, activists like Hidme Markam are keeping the forests standing and the coal in the ground.
National Strike in Colombia Completes Two Months
The national strike, which began in rejection of a tax reform bill, has transformed into a national struggle against the far-right government of President Ivan Duque and his neoliberal and oppressive policies.
Bharat Bhushan Babasaheb
The unique life of Bharat Bhushan Ambedkar has become a new source of inspiration for devotees. From it has emerged a new deity and the lamp that will be burning in its temple in this land of temples will be seen from all sides of the nation and from distant corners of the world.
Lakshadweep: The New Administration’s Call and the Impending Ecological Crisis
This article is an attempt to bring forth the ecological and environmental disasters that await over a fragile ecosystem, as a consequence of the new rules and regulations of the recently appointed administrator of Lakshadweep, Praful Khoda Patel.
The New Cold War on China
Just as the USA declared a Cold War against the Soviet Union and China in the 1940s-50s, as part of a grand strategy to secure its global hegemony in the immediate post-Second World War era, today it is declaring a New Cold War on China in the interest of maintaining that same imperial hegemony.