From late nineteenth century onwards, India’s national struggle against British imperialism had been quite responsive to international political currents. There is a lot of evidence to show that enlightened Indians were aware, though rather vaguely. . .
This paper was presented at the International Seminar on The Future of Marxism, Democracy & Socialism (18-20 December 2024), organized by the EMS Chair for Marxian Studies and Research, University of Calicut. The communist movement. . .
With several demands seeking a better and just Bihar, the Badlo Bihar Nyay Yatra was undertaken across several zones in the state. While the yatra struck a chord with the common people, students and youth. . .
In the distance, 70-year-old Raghunath Das saw red flags marching and heard slogans for a just Bihar. Barefoot, he sprang from his field and ran, heart pounding. He knew it was the padyatra taken out. . .
[Towards the 25th Memorial Day of Comrade Vinod Mishra - 18 December - we are reproducing this article, originally appeared in The Telegraph and from Liberation, January 1999.] Other than politics which to me means. . .
Was Nupur Sharma’s speech “free speech” that is being threatened by the protests demanding her arrest for “hate speech”? The iconic African-American writer James Baldwin said, “We can disagree and still love each other unless. . .
Confronted by a flood of condemnations by a wide range of nations, of a piece of Islamophobic hate speech about Prophet Mohammed by a prominent spokesperson of the ruling Bharatiya Janta Party, the Modi Government. . .
(Excerpts from statement by All India Lawyers’ Association For Justice (AILAJ)) The protests (by Muslims against Islamophobic hate-speech) that were witnessed in nine states and union territories, were followed by numerous reported instances of arbitrary. . .
From hate speech to state-led terror, resist the trajectory! The storm triggered by the Islamophobic bigotry and derogatory remarks against Prophet Muhammad by well-known BJP national spokesperson Nupur Sharma and the party's Delhi media head. . .
(Today, Hindu-supremacist fascists are in power in India, and are busy trying to write themselves into the history of India’s freedom movement; while distorting the role of the movement’s actual key actors. In this feature. . .