মূলত গ্রামাঞ্চলে হওয়া এই সমীক্ষার নিরিখে যে বিষয়টি সামনে উঠে আসে তা হল গ্রামীণ পারিবারিক দারিদ্র্যের বোঝা এসে পড়ছে মহিলাদের উপর এবং তারই ফলস্বরূপ বাড়ছে ঋণগ্রস্ততা। এই দারিদ্র্যকে পুঁজি করেই চলছে ‘ক্ষুদ্র ঋণ সংস্থার লুট’। সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তী Groundxero | Oct 31, 2025 সারা দেশের ২১টি রাজ্য, ১০০টি গ্রাম, সর্বমোট ৯০০০ মহিলাদের মধ্যে দীর্ঘ সময় ধরে […]
The genocide in Gaza is not a freakish anomaly. It is a harbinger of what awaits us as the ecosystem disintegrates and governments embrace climate fascism. Chris Hedges Oct 30, 2025 Gaza does not mark the end of the settler colonial project. It marks, I fear, its final phase. Western states, enriched by […]
Behind Gurugram’s latest demolition drive lies a decade-old nexus of corruption, caste, and state neglect. By MOULI SHARMA Groundxero | Oct 31, 2025 On 8th October 2025, in Gurugram’s (Haryana) Sector 12, on Old Delhi Road, homes were razed down after residents were forcibly dragged out by a massive police force, in yet another case […]
তালিবান প্রশাসনের মন্ত্রীর সাংবাদিক সম্মেলনে থাকার অনুমতি না পাওয়া ন্যক্কারজনক, কিন্তু তার থেকেও বোধহয় ন্যক্কারজনক দেশের ভেতরে আগ্রাসী পৌরুষ, পিতৃতন্ত্র, লিঙ্গভিত্তিক বৈষম্য এবং হিন্দুত্ববাদী জাতীয়তাবাদে মহিলা সাংবাদিক, সঞ্চালক সকলেই যেভাবে নিজেদের প্রতিদিন উজ্জীবিত করে চলেছেন তা থেকে চোখ ঘুরিয়ে থাকা। সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তী সম্প্রতি ভারতের মহিলা সাংবাদিকদের সঙ্গে এক বৈষম্যমূলক ঘটনার পরিপ্রেক্ষিতে খুব বিস্তারিতভাবে না […]
In part V & VI of this reportage, Subha Protim Roy Chowdhury shares his experience while visiting communal violence affected areas in Bhatpara in North 24-Pargana district of West Bengal, and the exploitative conditions of women in the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox Bazar in Bangladesh. By Subha Protim Roy Chowdhury Groundxero | Oct 26, 2025 […]
Environmentalists warn of irreversible damage to Western Ghats and Lion-Tailed Macaque habitat; urge Union and Karnataka governments to scrap the project. Groundxero | October 24, 2025 A coalition of environmental groups, scientists, and local communities has sounded a stark warning over Karnataka’s proposed 2000 MW Sharavathy Pumped Storage Project (PSP), calling it an ecological […]
The recent US airstrikes in the Caribbean and military threats against Venezuela are a continuation of decades (or even centuries) of US policy on the region, not a departure from it. By Manolo De Los Santos Over the last several weeks, Washington has escalated threats and hostilities against Venezuela, and US President Donald Trump openly […]
Addressing the root of economic systems that oppress Americans is exactly what the Democratic Party leadership, dependent on big corporate donors, has rigorously refused to do. If they continue this refusal, things will only get worse. By Norman Solomon TomDispatch The human condition includes a vast array of unavoidable misfortunes. But what about […]
In this part III & IV of the reportage; Subha Protim Roy Chowdhury shares his experience while visiting communal violence affected areas in Basirhat and Asansol in West Bengal. By Subha Protim Roy Chowdhury Groundxero | Oct 20, 2025 III. It was in the year 2017. Two months after the communal riots in Basirhat6, we […]
The Palestinians have resisted colonisation for 75 years, and have now fought back another 2 years of outright genocide. With their bodies, they have managed to stall one of the world’s most powerful military machines; rally support from around the world; and weaken imperialism itself in the process. Their struggle is far from over. […]
HRF is calling on both the State and Union governments to immediately halt all land acquisition and clearance processes related to the project. They demand full public disclosure of all documents including MOUs, power and water allocation agreements, compensation frameworks and environmental impact reports. Groundxero | October 18, 2025 The Human Rights Forum (HRF) has […]
SKM calls the Draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2025, an assault on federalism and people’s right to affordable power, and announced plans to coordinate with electricity workers’ unions to resist what it termed as “corporate capture of the power sector.” New Delhi | October 18, 2025 Groundxero The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) has sharply condemned […]
Maleka from an Afghan refugee camp in Delhi, and Anwara, Murshida, Tamanna, Ramaiya, Saba, Arifa in a riot victims shelter camp in Uttar Pradesh — each came from a different background. Their perspectives are different, but they face the same reality of insecurity and vulnerability. By Subha Protim Roy Chowdhury Groundxero | Oct 17, 2025 I. […]
While Palestinian blood flows through the streets of Rafah and Khan Yunis, Arab leaders meet in luxurious summits to issue vague statements of “concern” and empty “indignation”. No economic sanctions against “Israel”, no oil embargo, no diplomatic rupture. By Sayid Marcos Tenorio Groundxero | Oct 17, 2025 There is a tragic irony in the Palestinian genocide: […]
Has the defeat of the Naxal movement translated into victory for Indian farmers? For workers? For Adivasi women? No. This is a victory for capitalists; it is a victory for those who impoverish India by plundering its water, forests, and land. By Himanshu Kumar Groundxero | Oct 17, 2025 Today, in the pink cold of […]
A mathematician’s concerns on the assault on education, reason, and freedom in India By Oorna Groundxero | Oct 16, 2025 In The 14 Characteristics of Fascism, political scientist Lawrence Britt observed that “fascist nations tend to promote and to exalt hostility to higher education and academia.” History proves him right. In the 20th century, […]
A report of the TISS students’ meeting to commemorate Prof GN Saibaba Oct 15, 2025 by freespeechcollective The price of political engagement and learning today* Recording the sequence of events and observations on the current events unfolding in TISS, Mumbai, from students’ perspective What is the price of political engagement and learning […]
The young Kerala victim’s posthumous disclosure must become a catalyst for change—not another tragedy we mourn and forget. Tinku Khanna Groundxero | Oct 15, 2025 The recent death by suicide of a 26-year-old IT professional from Kerala, who alleged in a scheduled Instagram post that he was sexually abused as a child by members of […]
Prof. G.N. Saibaba memorial lecture on the occasion of his death anniversary on 12th October 2025 was held at HKS Surjeet Bhawan in New Delhi. Groundxero | Oct 13, 2025 G.N. Saibaba (1967 – 12 October 2024) was an Indian scholar, writer and human rights activist from Amalapuram, Andhra Pradesh. He constantly raised his voice for the […]
There will be no peace in Gaza. Only the temporary absence of war. CHRIS HEDGES OCT 11, 2025 There is no shortage of failed peace plans in occupied Palestine, all of them incorporating detailed phases and timelines, going back to the presidency of Jimmy Carter. They end the same way. Israel gets what […]
বিপর্যয় এলে কী হবে সেই আলোচনার চাইতে অনেক বেশি জরুরি বিপর্যয় আটকানো। যে কারণে বিপর্যয় ঘটতে পারে, ঘটছে, তার প্রতিকার। তিথি রায় Groundxero | Oct 09, 2025 কাশ্মীর, হিমাচল, উত্তরাখান্ড, উত্তরবঙ্গ – গোটা হিমালয় জুড়ে বিধ্বংসী বন্যা ও ধস নামার ঘটনা ঘটে চলেছে পালা করে। ধর্মীয় বিশ্বাসে, হিমালয়ে বসবাস ঈশ্বরের। এ জমানায়, পুঁজি-বাজার-মুনাফাকেই আমরা ব্রহ্মা-বিষ্ণু-মহেশ্বরের মত […]
All this killing, maiming, starving, orphaning, and forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian minors has wrought what one mother there called the “complete psychological destruction” of Gaza’s children. A December 2024 study found that nearly all children in Gaza believed their deaths were imminent—and nearly half of them wanted to die. By BRET WILKINS Oct 08, […]
The recent expansion of detention and deportations of immigrants reflects an accelerated criminalisation and punishment of non-citizens, tied to a rising authoritarianism across purportedly liberal Western countries. Andonea Jon Dickson, Cetta Mainwaring and Thom Tyerman Under President Donald Trump, the United States is expanding its efforts to detain and deport non-citizens at an alarming rate. […]
The Samyukt Kisan Morch (SKM) – a platform of farmer unions across the country – has warned of a massive protest if the Narendra Modi led Union government surrender to the USA and demanded exclusion of agriculture and allied sectors from the Free Trade Agreements and WTO. Groundxero | Oct 08, 2025 The National Council […]
I write to say: we are not just numbers in the news; we are human beings who dream, suffer, and resist. Maryam Al-Nimr Groundxero | Oct 08, 2025 I am Maryam Al-Nimr, a student and citizen of Gaza, writing on behalf of every Palestinian seeking safety, freedom, and humanity. In Gaza, the day doesn’t […]
দুর্গাপুজোকে কেন্দ্র করে যদি আজ বাঙালি ধর্মনিরপেক্ষ সংস্কৃতি ভিত্তিক পরিচয় তুলে ধরে, তাহলে ইতিহাসে ফিরে তাকালেই বোঝা যায় কীভাবে সাম্প্রদায়িক পরিচয়ের পরিপ্রেক্ষিতেই গড়ে উঠেছিল দুর্গা পূজোর ইতিহাস। সোহিনী সাহা Groundxero | Oct 08, 2025 বাঙালি ও সাম্প্রদায়িকতার ইতিহাস আলোচনার বিষয়ে হয়ে দাঁড়িয়েছিল কিছু দিন আগেই। ১৯৪৬ এর সাম্প্রদায়িক সংঘর্ষে বাঙালির ভূমিকাকে কেন্দ্র করে উঠেছিল তর্ক। […]
বৃহৎ পুঁজির লাভের জন্য ড্যাম তৈরি হচ্ছে, পাহাড় ফুঁড়ে রেলপথ হচ্ছে। এই আগ্রাসনের বিরুদ্ধে লড়াই হতে হবে বহুস্তরীয়। শুভদীপ মৈত্র “কোই গ্যারান্টি নেহি হ্যায়, বিশ পঁচ্চিশ মিনিট কি বারিষমে সব কুছ রুক যা সকতা হ্যায়…” দার্জিলিং-এর একটা ছোট্ট কন্টিনেন্টাল ব্রেকফাস্টের দোকান – ‘সোনাম’স কিচেন’, সেখানে বসে বসে শুনছিলাম বছর দেড়েক আগের বসন্তকালে। কথা […]
Ironically, while the government claims it has no land to distribute to the landless, it is willing to lease thousands of acres virtually free to one of India’s largest conglomerates. The betrayal could not be starker and more brazen. Groundxero | Oct 03, 2025 The decision to lease 1,050 acres of land in Pirpainti, Bhagalpur […]