250 million join general strike as mass movement erupts against new draconian citizenship law
On 8 January, India came to a grinding halt as more than 250 million joined a general strike across the…
Category: Analysis
Climate chaos: capitalism to blame
This summer has been one of freakish weather events the world over. No longer is climate change a thing of…
What is Fascism and is it a threat today?
The election of Donald Trump in the US and the rise of Marine Le Pen in the French presidential elections…
Power Loom Worker’s Strike Back in Punjab State
On 3rd October, striking Power Loom workers from various areas of Ludhiana gathered to demonstrate in front of the Labour…
Notes on the role of the state in the Indian economy
The Indian economy has undergone a long period of high and sustained growth. It remains a country of huge contradictions,…
The Curse of India’s Growth
For more than two decades society has been under a kind of Orwellian spell where almost everything written or said…
Ambedkarism and the aborted slogan of a Dalit party
The dalits, the “untouchables”, of India are not one homogenous bloc. Within them a bourgeois layer has risen and aspires…
The decadence of the Indian film industry
The Indian film industry is the second largest in the world producing about 300 movies a year. Not more than…