This article, in Bengali, analyzes the demand of the separate state of Gorkhaland from a working class perspective. This was originally published in the magazine "Radical".
Bhangor Movement: The future of the struggle for land and democracy
This is an article, in Bengali, on the Bhangor peasants' movement against the high tension power grid and power sub station forcibly constructed on agricultural land, raising questions about the dynamics of land acquisition, economics of the power sector, democracy…
Our Gauri avows
Who is this Gauri? Gauri is not just a name. Gauri is not just another person. Gauri represents principled political journalism. Like many others before her Gauri symbolises the spirit to counter the terror of the most retrograde and repressive…
E-IR interview Bernard D’Mello
Source: E-International Relations (E-IR) Bernard D’Mello is a senior journalist with the Economic & Political Weekly and a civil-liberties activist with the Committee for the Protection of Democratic Rights, Mumbai. His works include What is Maoism and Other Essays (Cornerstone…
Nine months of Notebandi
Nine months after the Central Government withdrew the legal tender status of 86% of Indian currency, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has delivered a report. It was speculated that notebandi has produced zilch. The report confirms that fear. It…
The Crisis faced by Sameeksha Trust
During all the past months, since the resignation of the EPW editor Paranjoy Guha Thakurta (brought about through an unceremonious way), I had reluctantly abstained from going public and joining the debate that is going on. Instead, I appealed in…
50 Years of Naxalbari: A Path for Alternative Development
In November, 2008 just as the people’s movement against state repression began in Lalgarh, a Peoples' Committee against Police Atrocities was formed, comprising of five male and five female members representing each village, which soon spread from village to village.…
मजदूर आन्दोलन के समक्ष चुनौतियां
This article in Hindi is an updated version of the Kedar Das memorial lecture, delivered by the author in Kedar Das Institute, Patna. In this article, the author elaborately mentions the history, context and challenges in front of the working…
UID – The Greatest Trick Yet, By The Greatest Prestidigitator
The Italian Kautalya, Niccolo Machiavelli, is supposed to have said that ‘Politics is the art of deception’ (or maybe it was the Indian Machiavelli, Kautilya, himself). Whoever it was, he has an able student in the Indian prime minister (PM)…
Decorating tree’s branches while cutting off its roots
Govt’s welfare schems are the branches, adivasi land is the roots Decorating the branches: it is almost a dream-world perusing the long list of developmental and welfare schemes meant for SCs and STs. There are 49 schemes jointly undertaken by…