Percy Bysshe Shelley: Romanticism and Revolution
During the gloom of the early nineteenth century, Shelley’s rage against injustice and revolutionary ardour burned with an intensity perhaps unmatched in the history of art.
The Uniqueness of India’s Partition
The partition was not simply an accidental episode. It had a long chain of events behind it and leading to it. And the partition story did not end in 1947. The year 1947 was in some ways the beginning of the consequences of the partition.
I Have a Dream
Speech delivered by the renowned anti-racist activist on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963.
How Did the Gates of Hell Open in Vietnam?
‘Kill Anything that Moves’, a new book by Nick Turse, transforms our understanding of what the Vietnam war actually was. Turse discovers that episodes of devastation, murder, massacre, rape, and torture once considered isolated atrocities were in fact the norm.
Debate: Sudheendra Kulkarni on Bhagwat’s Speech of 4 July; and Two Responses
Opinion: Bhagwat’s Glasnost in RSS-Muslim Ties Is Welcome, But Can He Rein in Modi and Adityanath?; Counterview: The RSS’s Age-Old Agenda Is the Same, No Matter What Mohan Bhagwat Says; The Burden of Being ‘Bharatiya’ in Mohan Bhagwat’s Hindu Rashtra.
Marital Rape: Finding the Right to Say No
It cannot be overemphasised that by not criminalising marital rape, the State effectively endorses the view that forced conjugal relations are acceptable. It also implies that women lose their bodily autonomy when they enter into a marriage.
Of Father Stan Swamy, Humans and Other Species
For Stan’s thousands of admirers, the challenge is clearly to join the Adivasi people in their fight to be treated as equal human beings and also upholding their traditions, far superior to those of the ‘civilised’.
For India’s Sake, Stop Destroying Communal Harmony with the Bogey of Love Jihad
The hate-filled and menacing messages on some WhatsApp groups are frightening in their implications.
How Not to Unite a Class: a Response to DSA’s Class Unity Caucus
A response to a debate among socialist activists about the relationship between oppression and class and why getting the answer right is essential to forging a united class struggle.
In Conversation with K. Veeramani
K. Veeramani is perhaps the senior most of the leaders of revolutionary Periyar E.V. Ramasamy’s Dravidian movement. In this wide-ranging conversation, he gives extensive details of the background of formation of Self Respect Movement.