Groundxero | 17th January, 2024 Since December 12, 2023, more than one lakh Anganwadi workers and helpers in Andhra Pradesh have been on strike, demanding that the state government increase their salaries, regularize their jobs, and introduce retirement and pension benefits, and clear pending wage bills, among other demands. Overworked and underpaid, thousands of […]
National Investigating Agency (NIA) has raided the houses of nearly 30 Human Rights, Civil liberties, feminist activists and progressive writers in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. The raids began on 31st March evening and continued until the early hours of the 1st April, for most activists. CO-ORDINATION OF DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS ORGANISATION (CDRO) in a press release issued […]
P. Varalakshmi has served as Secretary of the Telugu Revolutionary Writers Association, VIRASAM, which was founded in 1970, from 2012 to 2018. On a visit to Kolkata for the People’s Literary Festival organised by the Bastar Solidarity Network (15-16 February), she sat down for a conversation with Abhishek Bhattacharyya before the second day’s sessions began. […]