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Open Letter by Cotton Farmers to the Prime Minister of India
  • Agriculture
  • September 3, 2025

The open letter by the farmers said, “… with unending hypocrisy, your government is succumbing to imperialist US pressures and putting India’s sovereignty at stake,” and instead of building a vibrant domestic economy ensuring enhanced purchasing power of the working people through “agriculture led development under the aegis of the state,” the government is surrendering […]

Witnessing Tij Raja’s Children Roar: How Odisha’s Adivasis Resist Corporate Mining
  • Peoples' Movements
  • September 3, 2025

Beyond spectacles of formulaic festivities, Tij Raja’s children have taught me that the will to resist oppression and fight for one’s rights is more contagious than the fear invoked by the oppressor.   Srijan Dutta Groundxero | Sep 3, 2025   A week before India’s 79th Independence Day, this year’s 9 August marked the 30th anniversary of […]

Institutional Paternalism, Utopian Patriarchy, Victim Shaming, and Victim Guilt: The Unaddressed Rape Culture
  • Gender
  • September 2, 2025

Addressing the rape-culture through a feminist lens would allow the survivors to breathe and the women to lead the bekhwaaf azaadi.   Pritha Sarkar   Recently, a gang-rape incident in Puri shook the states of West Bengal and Odisha. However, soon, there were the same questions: “What was the girl wearing? Why was she with […]

Who Owns Urdu? Javed Akhtar, Religion, and the Fight for a Shared Language
  • Commentary
  • September 2, 2025

The decision by the West Bengal Urdu Academy to postpone Javed Akhtar’s program under religious pressure is yet another blow that deserves lamentation. It undermines the Academy’s credibility and its stated purpose: to promote and preserve the Urdu language. This surrender to the religious bodies represents a failure of institutional responsibility, which is the norm […]

Investigation of the issue of Panchayati land by landless Dalits in Punjab by PUDR
  • Agriculture
  • September 1, 2025

The landless Dalits in villages of Punjab, for the past decade are mobilizing under ZPSC (Zameen Prapti Sangharsh Committee) to assert and claim their right to ownership of land. They are not only asserting their legal right to get Panchayati common land on lease but are also demanding distribution of the surplus land beyond the […]

“Our humanity is not negotiable,” says two signatories to the petition to suspend Israel from the IOAA
  • Palestine
  • September 1, 2025

“We believe that it is our responsibility to extend solidarity and support to those facing violence and dispossession in whatever way we can. The successful petition to suspend Israel from the IOAA is a small step in that direction,” wrote two of the signatories to the petition.   Groundxero | Sep 1, 2025   Hundreds of […]