A group of academics and concerned citizens has condemned the SRM Institute of Science and Technology (SRMIST) for terminating Assistant Professor Lora Santhakumar, calling the move a serious assault on academic freedom, due process, and freedom of conscience within Indian universities. Groundxero | Dec 31, 2025 In yet another chilling instance of policing thought and […]
The continued exemption of marital rape from criminal law exposes how the Indian state prioritises patriarchal order over women’s bodily autonomy, dignity, and right to justice. By Debasree Sarkar Groundxero| December 29, 2025 Despite constitutional guarantees of equality, dignity, and personal liberty, Indian law continues to deny married women protection from sexual violence within […]
More than a century after the Ghadar Party launched one of the earliest internationalist challenges to British colonial rule in India; its revolutionary legacy continues to live on in Punjab. The annual Gadri Mela in Jalandhar is not merely a commemoration of the past but a living political and cultural space that reconnects history with […]
নীতিশ কুমারের মতো স্বনিযুক্ত অভিভাবক হয়ে যান অধিকাংশ পুরুষই পরিচিত, অপরিচিত প্রায় সব মহিলাদের। কেনই বা হবেন না? ‘আদমি হ্যায় না!’ সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তী Groundxero | December 19 “উও ভি তো আদমি হ্যায় না! পিছে নেহি পড় যানা চাহিয়ে। ছু দিয়া নাকাব। কহি অউর ছুতে তো তব কেয়ে হো যাতা?” “তো আপকো কেয়া লগ […]
The appeal by the All India Feminist Alliance (ALIFA) state that the incident cannot be separated from what it calls a growing pattern of demonisation of visible markers of Muslim identity, including hijab, burqa, skull caps and beards etc. Groundxero | December 18 A coalition of feminist activists, lawyers, scholars and researchers under […]
মানবাধিকার দিবসের দিন সাংবাদিক রূপেশ কুমার সিং-সহ ছ’জন রাজনৈতিক বন্দীর জেলের অব্যবস্থা ও অস্বাস্থ্যকর পরিবেশের বিরুদ্ধে প্রতীকী অনশন। সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তীর প্রতিবেদন ১০ ডিসেম্বর মানবাধিকার দিবস। এই দিনেই বিহারের পাটনায় আদর্শ কেন্দ্রীয় কারা, বেউর-এ ছয় দফা দাবি নিয়ে হাই সিকিউরিটি সেল-এর ছ’জন রাজনৈতিক বন্দী এক দিনের প্রতীকী অনশনের ডাক দিয়েছিলেন। এই ছয় বন্দীর মধ্যে একজন সাংবাদিক রূপেশ […]
The Apex Court’s ruling lays bare a deeper, ongoing shift in the state’s approach to natural commons—one that privileges extraction over conservation, and corporate interest over ecological survival. By Tinku Khanna Groundxero | 10 December 2025 Indroduction The Supreme Court’s recent acceptance of a narrow, elevation-based definition of the Aravalli Hills marks a turning […]
The killings of the journalists were deliberate acts intended to silence them. “They weren’t collateral victims. They were killed, targeted for their work … Key witnesses to history have become inconvenient eyewitnesses, bargaining chips, and people to be ‘eliminated’,” said RSF director general Thibaut Bruttin. Groundxero | 9 December 2025 2025 was yet another […]
The scapegoating of farmers for pollution serves a dual purpose for the corporates whose interests the Indian state actively promotes. It lays the groundwork for a future push to corporatise agriculture by portraying farmers’ ‘backward practices’ as in need of modernisation. It also diverts attention from the real culprits —the automobile industry, the rise in […]
“COP30 provides a stark reminder that the answers to the climate crisis do not lie inside the climate talks—they lie with the people and movements leading the way toward a just, equitable, fossil-free future,” one campaigner said. By Olivia Rosane Common Dreams The United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP30, concluded on Saturday in Belém, Brazil with a deal […]
The Supreme Court’s Centre for Research and Planning (CRP)’s groundbreaking new report examines how the Apex Court itself has spoken about caste over the past 75 years. By analysing the language used in major Constitution Bench judgments—from Champakam Dorairajan (1951) to State of Punjab v. Davinder Singh (2024)—the report reveals a judiciary wrestling not just […]
NACEJ strongly condemns the abject failure of the Government in systemically addressing the air pollution crisis and the brazen, arbitrary detention of peacefully protesting citizens, organizing against this public health catastrophe. It said Delhi NCR pollution crisis needs firm policy shifts and institutional action against prime polluters, not citizens. Restore Fundamental Right to Breathe! […]
While the CRI report tells us what has happened in the past, it is not a precise predictor of what will happen in the future. But the report clearly demonstrates global emissions must be reduced immediately; otherwise, we face rising deaths and economic disaster worldwide. Groundxero | November 12, 2025 The recently released Climate Risk […]
The Indian Statistical Institute Bill, 2025, represents a legislative attempt to undermine and dismantle an institution that has contributed immensely to India’s intellectual and scientific growth, erode ISI’s autonomy and its long-standing culture of academic freedom. Shyamoli Jana Groundxero | November 10, 2025 A ghettoised sweatshop is exactly what the name suggests: a workplace, a sweatshop, […]
Rights groups demand arrests and independent probe; call attack a deliberate attempt to silence voices against illegal mining in Tamil Nadu Groundxero | Nov 3, 2025 The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) — both its national and Tamil Nadu–Puducherry units — and the Human Rights Forum (HRF) have strongly condemned the violent assault on […]