India is facing an unprecedented economic crisis, heightened by the unplanned lockdowns and policies during the Covid pandemic. The cumulative impact is such that crores of people have slipped into abject poverty and struggle to. . .
To understand the true meaning of the ‘hijab issue’ playing out in Karnataka and other states, one only needs to pay close attention to the way in which it is being invoked in poll-bound states. . .
Two years ago, in the freezing cold of December 2019 in Delhi, people gradually began to notice that Muslim women had come to occupy a corner on a public street at Shaheen Bagh, desperate to. . .
I can never forget that morning of 27 January 2019 when I reached the Ghanta Ghar dharna, my heart full of wonder and eagerness. This dharna had been started by women at Ghanta Ghar in. . .
The passing of the The Election Laws (Amendment) Bill 2021 in the Lok Sabha is a dangerous step towards eroding India’s democracy. This proposed amendment seeks to link voting rights with Aadhaar verification. Like so. . .
(At a glance, Nirbhay shows you how the Modi regime has been undermining parliamentary decision-making.) Use of ordinances – Article 123 of the constitution grants the President law-making powers during recess of the Parliament. The. . .
"I am leaving behind a part of myself in Batukeshwar Dutt" : Bhagat Singh On 16 July 1930 the atmosphere in Lahore Central Jail was gloomy. On that day Batukeshwar Dutt was to be sent. . .
The Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HRA in an earlier avatar) and its youth organisation the Naujawan Bharat Sabha (NBS) are uniquely inspiring elements in India’s freedom movement. Its activists traveled in a very short time. . .
The people's campaign called by historians, intellectuals, cultural activists and civil society to mark 75 years of the country's independence began at the Bharatiya Nritya Kala Mandir in Patna on 18 November 2021 on the. . .
(Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan - RAWA - is one of the oldest Afghan feminist organisations, which has consistently resisted US occupation as well as feudal and fanatic forces in Afghan society including. . .
