Operation Samadhan-Prahar is a relatively new initiative of the union government of India, propagated as an effort to “combat Maoist insurgency in the tribal...
In this interview for Communalism Combat, 29 years ago, Dr DR Goyal, a member of the organization in his youth explains why he left and how poisonous RSS propaganda accelerated the movement for Pakistan
Trade unions held spontaneous protests in many parts of the state against amendments to the Factories Act. The meeting of all trade unions gave a call for strike on May 12.
Dear Stan, It is your birthday today here on earth! You would have completed eighty-six years, if you were around. Well, thatwas not to be; onJuly 5. 2021 you were murdered by a brutal and fascist regime, which...
The march, led by intellectuals like P Sainath and others will start from Akola and be be taken to the Loni office of Revenue and Dairy Development Minister Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil.
The Karnataka Janaarogya Chaluvali (Karnataka People’s Health Movement/Struggle) has written a strong critique of the draft Karnataka Right to Health and Emergency Medical Services Bill 2025, questioning its rationale and orientation; the critique points how this draft has been mostly borrowed from the Rajasthan Right to Health Act (2022). Besides, says KJC, while some activists in Karnataka have been clamoring for a replication of the Rajasthan Right to Health Act, this demand has been made without investing too much thought into whether this is what Karnataka requires
Close to a dozen public intellectuals including Hiren Gohain, Harekrishna Deka, former DGP, Assam and author, Dr. Indrani Dutta, former Director, Omiyo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development, among so many others, have in a letter petition to CJ, Gauhati High Court, Justice Vijay Bishnoi drawn attention of the Court to series of inciteful statements by Himanta Biswa Sarma, Chief Minister and urged suo moto cognisance
CJP-led memorandum to the Election Commission documents forged objections, misuse of Form 7, and violations of statutory safeguards meant to protect the right to vote
From Allahabad University to JNU, BHU and Delhi University, students are pushing back against the silencing of caste critique and the suspension of long-awaited equity safeguards
The deaths of Naman Agarwal and several others in recent days reveal a system where inquiries begin only after lives are lost; from IIT Bombay to BITS Goa, a spate of student deaths in just days exposes the hollowness of institutional safeguards and mental-health promises