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Statement by CASR against slapping of UAPA cases in the parliament incident.
15/12/2023

Statement by CASR against slapping of UAPA cases in the parliament incident.

The following statement was issued by the CAMPAIGN AGAINST STATE REPRESSION (CASR) yesterday, 14 December 2023 It has come to light that the police have slapped the draconian UAPA on Neelam Verma, …

Detailed ground report by Janahastakshep on Nuh violence. Do read and share.
10/08/2023

Detailed ground report by Janahastakshep on Nuh violence. Do read and share.

Introduction A team of Janhastakshep toured areas of Palwal, Sohna and Gurugram, as also spoke with other people from Nuh district on 3rd August 2023 to do a fact finding regarding the incidents of…

Guest post by C.P. GEEVAN What the farmers’ movement has achieved is nothing short of historic, even if the authoritaria...
22/11/2021

Guest post by C.P. GEEVAN What the farmers’ movement has achieved is nothing short of historic, even if the authoritarian government had not gone back on its intent for uncompromising implementation of the laws meant to reinforce major structural changes for facilitating corporate dominance of the farm sector. The inflexible approach of the government and the massive repression has claimed almost 700 lives since agitation began nearly one and half years back....

http://kafila.online/2021/11/22/historic-triumph-of-the-farmers-movement-a-celebration-tinged-with-grave-apprehensions-c-p-geevan/

Guest post by C.P. GEEVAN What the farmers’ movement has achieved is nothing short of historic, even if the authoritarian government had not gone back on its intent for uncompromising implementatio…

Demonstration in Glasgow during COP26, image courtesy The Herald We are in the midst of a climate emergency - and this i...
13/11/2021

Demonstration in Glasgow during COP26, image courtesy The Herald We are in the midst of a climate emergency - and this is no longer a secret. In fact, in November 2019, 11,000 scientists declared in a signed statement, in no uncertain terms that "planet Earth is facing a climate emergency." "Scientists", they said, "have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat and to 'tell it like it is'.” They noted that even 40 years after the First Climate Conference attended by over 50 scientists (in Geneva in 1979) had agreed that there were alarming trends of climate change that made it necessary to act, the situation has only worsened....

http://kafila.online/2021/11/13/copout26-climate-emergency-and-the-indian-left/

Demonstration in Glasgow during COP26, image courtesy The Herald We are in the midst of a climate emergency – and this is no longer a secret. In fact, in November 2019, 11,000 scientists decl…

Representational image, courtesy Sabrang As the decisive battle of 2024 draws closer by the day and restiveness grows, a...
09/10/2021

Representational image, courtesy Sabrang As the decisive battle of 2024 draws closer by the day and restiveness grows, alignments and realignments will also become more apparent. The tragedy is that while the image of Narendra Modi and his regime has taken a severe beating, there is still no visible alternative in sight. As a matter of fact, the entire opposition seems to be going from one crisis to another....

http://kafila.online/2021/10/09/mission-2024-the-congress-and-beyond/

Representational image, courtesy Sabrang As the decisive battle of 2024 draws closer by the day and restiveness grows, alignments and realignments will also become more apparent. The tragedy is tha…

A Decolonization mural in Oakland, USA, photo HiMYSYeD, Oakland Wiki This post is prompted by a discussion that followed...
11/09/2021

A Decolonization mural in Oakland, USA, photo HiMYSYeD, Oakland Wiki This post is prompted by a discussion that followed some remarks I had made on social media regarding the way in which a certain common sense that we may call 'Hindu Nationalist', had come to dominate the sensibilities of even those intellectuals in the Hindi world who otherwise might stand opposed to the Hindu Right....

http://kafila.online/2021/09/11/decolonizing-thought-beyond-indian-hindu-exceptionalism/

A Decolonization mural in Oakland, USA, photo HiMYSYeD, Oakland Wiki This post is prompted by a discussion that followed some remarks I had made on social media regarding the way in which a certain…

ये हिंदुत्व है हिन्दू धर्म नहीं! गुजरात के मुख्यमंत्री नरेन्द्र मोदी शस्त्र पूजा में मग्न. AFP PHOTO/ SAM PANTHAKY यह ले...
27/08/2021

ये हिंदुत्व है हिन्दू धर्म नहीं! गुजरात के मुख्यमंत्री नरेन्द्र मोदी शस्त्र पूजा में मग्न. AFP PHOTO/ SAM PANTHAKY यह लेख पहले जनवादी लेखक संघ की पत्रिका नया पथ के जनवरी-मार्च २०२१ अंक में प्रकाशित हुआ था. आगामी 11-12 सितम्बर को अमेरिका में होने जा रहे Dismantling Global Hindutva सम्मलेन से उद्वेलित हिंदुत्व के प्रचारक अब इस सम्मलेन को रद्द कराने की मुहीम में उतर चुके हैं....

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ये हिंदुत्व है हिन्दू धर्म नहीं! गुजरात के मुख्यमंत्री नरेन्द्र मोदी शस्त्र पूजा में मग्न. AFP PHOTO/ SAM PANTHAKY यह लेख पहले जन....

['Parapolitics' began on 16 January 2020 as a weekly column at the height of the anti-CAA movement. After eight weeks, i...
14/08/2021

['Parapolitics' began on 16 January 2020 as a weekly column at the height of the anti-CAA movement. After eight weeks, it was made into a fortnightly column and now, eighteen months and 44 posts later, as I get involved with a study of Marxisms in the 'Global South', beginning with this post, this column will now appear once a month, on the second Saturday of every month…...

http://kafila.online/2021/08/14/conceptualizing-the-counter-revolution-in-the-seventy-fifth-year-of-independence/

[‘Parapolitics’ began on 16 January 2020 as a weekly column at the height of the anti-CAA movement. After eight weeks, it was made into a fortnightly column and now, eighteen months and…

Guest post by DIPANKAR BHATTACHARYA This piece was originally published in Bangla in the Ananda Bazar Patrika and has be...
13/08/2021

Guest post by DIPANKAR BHATTACHARYA This piece was originally published in Bangla in the Ananda Bazar Patrika and has been translated into English by Arundhati Ghosh The 1857 Revolt, representational image courtesy TheHansIndia “Freedom - you are a room in the garden, the song of the koel, the sun drenched leaves of the old banyan tree, the page of my book of poetry where I can write as I wish.”...

http://kafila.online/2021/08/13/the-subjugated-subjects-of-a-free-country-and-the-creation-of-the-new-colony-dipankar-bhattacharya/

Guest post by DIPANKAR BHATTACHARYA This piece was originally published in Bangla in the Ananda Bazar Patrika and has been translated into English by Arundhati Ghosh The 1857 Revolt, representation…

Guest post by SUMAAN SENGUPTO Data hacking, representational image, courtesy DNA এক গুপ্তচর এসে পড়েছে আমাদের জীবনে, যে ...
02/08/2021

Guest post by SUMAAN SENGUPTO Data hacking, representational image, courtesy DNA এক গুপ্তচর এসে পড়েছে আমাদের জীবনে, যে আমাদের সমস্ত গতিবিধি, কথোপকথনের ওপর নজর রাখছে। আজকে আর নতুন করে নিশ্চিত বলে দিতে হবে না, কে বা কারা এই গুপ্তচরবৃত্তি করেছে এবং তাঁদের এই গুপ্তচরবৃত্তির উদ্দেশ্যই বা কি ? কারণ, সংবাদপত্রের খবরের দৌলতে এই গুপ্তচরের নাম, কিভাবে কাজ করে তা মোটামুটি আজকে বেশীরভাগ মানুষের নখদর্পনে বা বলা ভালো মুঠোফোনের দর্পনে। মুঠোফোন বা মোবাইল ফোনের উল্লেখ করার কেন প্রয়োজন হলো?...

http://kafila.online/2021/08/02/%e0%a6%ac%e0%a6%bf%e0%a6%97-%e0%a6%ac%e0%a7%8d%e0%a6%b0%e0%a6%be%e0%a6%a6%e0%a6%be%e0%a6%b0-%e0%a6%b8%e0%a6%ac-%e0%a6%a6%e0%a7%87%e0%a6%96%e0%a6%be%e0%a6%b0-%e0%a6%9a%e0%a7%87%e0%a6%b7%e0%a7%8d/

Guest post by SUMAAN SENGUPTO Data hacking, representational image, courtesy DNA এক গুপ্তচর এসে পড়েছে আমাদের জীবনে, যে  আমাদের সমস্ত গতিবিধি, কথোপকথনের ওপর নজর রাখ....

Guest post by CP GEEVAN On June 18 (Sunday evening in India), freedom-loving people across the world were shocked by the...
26/07/2021

Guest post by CP GEEVAN On June 18 (Sunday evening in India), freedom-loving people across the world were shocked by the revelations of how a highly sophisticated and expensive digital technology, named Pegasus, a spyware sold by Israeli company NSO Group, has been systematically abused for years to spy on journalists, human rights defenders, academics, businesspeople, lawyers, doctors, union leaders, diplomats, politicians and even several heads of states....

http://kafila.online/2021/07/26/hacking-indias-democracy-from-monitoring-metadata-to-spying-real-time-c-p-geevan/

Guest post by CP GEEVAN On June 18 (Sunday evening in India), freedom-loving people across the world were shocked by the revelations of how a highly sophisticated and expensive digital technology, …

Guest Post by NABIYA KHAN Our valiant young activists, defenders of democracy, continue to be in prison for almost a yea...
23/07/2021

Guest Post by NABIYA KHAN Our valiant young activists, defenders of democracy, continue to be in prison for almost a year - some a bit more and some a bit less. All under entirely framed charges, while the actual perpetrators of violence continue to roam free, spreading hate. Celebrating the commitment and courage of these activists, here is an offering by Nabiya Khan, courtesy Karwan-e-Mohabbat....

http://kafila.online/2021/07/23/a-poem-for-umar-khalid-saifi-and-other-political-prisoners-nabiya-khan/

Guest Post by NABIYA KHAN Our valiant young activists, defenders of democracy, continue to be in prison for almost a year – some a bit more and some a bit less. All under entirely framed char…

Zapatista (EZLN) 'irregulars' militia (male and female) who receive military training but are mobilized only in emergenc...
22/07/2021

Zapatista (EZLN) 'irregulars' militia (male and female) who receive military training but are mobilized only in emergencies, Courtesy: Anya Briy and OpenDemocracy I am interested in 'Marxism' as a field or a force-field in the sense in which we think of electromagnetic or gravitational fields, where objects and bodies impact on other bodies and objects, and have effects, without necessarily coming into contact....

http://kafila.online/2021/07/22/untimely-explorations-in-a-field-called-marxism/

Zapatista (EZLN) ‘irregulars’ militia (male and female) who receive military training but are mobilized only in emergencies, Courtesy: Anya Briy and OpenDemocracy I am interested in & #8…

[We are publishing below the full response of Concerned Historians to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education,...
18/07/2021

[We are publishing below the full response of Concerned Historians to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, regarding certain proposed changes.] RESPONSE OF CONCERNED HISTORIANS On the CALL FOR REVISIONS IN SCHOOL HISTORY BOOKS IN INDIA To be shared with the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education pertaining to school history books. Date: 15th July 2021 We have recently learnt of representations being collected by the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports with respect to:...

http://kafila.online/2021/07/18/concerned-historians-respond-to-parliamentary-standing-committee-on-education-on-history-textbooks/

[We are publishing below the full response of Concerned Historians to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, regarding certain proposed changes.] RESPONSE OF CONCERNED HISTORIANS On the…

Fr. Stanislaus Lourduswamy aka Stan Swamy, image by Sarah Modak, courtesy Article 14 There are just no words left to exp...
08/07/2021

Fr. Stanislaus Lourduswamy aka Stan Swamy, image by Sarah Modak, courtesy Article 14 There are just no words left to express the anger and helplessness that overcame hundreds and thousands of people like me when they heard of the custodial murder of an ailing, frail, octogenarian, Fr Stanislaus Lourduswamy, known to the world as Stan Swamy. The various issues that arise from the virtual judicial abdication of responsibility has been…...

http://kafila.online/2021/07/08/stan-swamys-custodial-murder-joining-the-dots-from-santhal-hul-to-the-pathalgadi-movement/

Fr. Stanislaus Lourduswamy aka Stan Swamy, image by Sarah Modak, courtesy Article 14 There are just no words left to express the anger and helplessness that overcame hundreds and thousands of peopl…

Poster in Santhali language for the Convention We had reported earlier on the call for a convention to commemorate the a...
01/07/2021

Poster in Santhali language for the Convention We had reported earlier on the call for a convention to commemorate the anniversary of the historic Santhal Rebellion associated the immortal names of Sidhu and Kanu. The convention was organized by the recently constituted forum in West Bengal, Ekusher Dak - Call of 21 - which was formed in the run up to the recently held elections in the state....

http://kafila.online/2021/07/01/hul-dibosh-convention-by-ekusher-dak-call-of-21-marks-anniversary-of-santhal-rebellion/

Poster in Santhali language for the Convention We had reported earlier on the call for a convention to commemorate the anniversary of the historic Santhal Rebellion associated the immortal names of…

Guest post by RAJINDER CHAUDHARY पंद्रह दिन एक व्यस्क मरीज़ के साथ कोरोना वार्ड में गुज़ार के जब मैं अपने शहर पहुंचा तो ...
01/07/2021

Guest post by RAJINDER CHAUDHARY पंद्रह दिन एक व्यस्क मरीज़ के साथ कोरोना वार्ड में गुज़ार के जब मैं अपने शहर पहुंचा तो पाया कि मेरे सैक्टर को ही कन्टेन्मन्ट ज़ोन बना रखा था. कन्टेन्मन्ट ज़ोन यानी ऐसा इलाका जिस में आने-जाने के रास्ते बंद किये हुए थे ताकि कोरोना पीड़ित इस सैक्टर में आवाजाही न हो सके. यह दावा कि मैंने 15 दिन कोरोना वार्ड में अपने मरीज़ के साथ गुज़ारे उन लोगों को अविश्वसनीय लग सकता है जो बड़े शहर के बड़े हस्पताल में दाखिल अपने कोरोना पीड़ित मरीज़ से संपर्क करने को तरसते रहे हैं....

http://kafila.online/2021/07/01/%e0%a4%95%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%af%e0%a4%be-%e0%a4%87%e0%a4%b8-%e0%a4%a4%e0%a4%b0%e0%a4%b9-%e0%a4%ad%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%b0%e0%a4%a4-%e0%a4%ae%e0%a5%87%e0%a4%82-%e0%a4%95%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%b0%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%a8/

Guest post by RAJINDER CHAUDHARY पंद्रह दिन एक व्यस्क मरीज़ के साथ कोरोना वार्ड में गुज़ार के जब मैं अपने शहर पहुंचा तो पाया कि मेरे सैक...

We publish a document 'Demands of the People' adopted by a novel campaign Ekusher Dak in West Bengal that has the potent...
29/06/2021

We publish a document 'Demands of the People' adopted by a novel campaign Ekusher Dak in West Bengal that has the potential to emerge as the nucleus of a new Left formation in the state. The draft document in Bangla is appended at the end of this post. Tomorrow, 30 June, Ekusher Dak or the Call of 21 will be organizing a programme, recalling the great Santhal Hool or the revolt of 30 June 1855....

http://kafila.online/2021/06/29/the-call-of-21-%e0%a6%8f%e0%a6%95%e0%a7%81%e0%a6%b6%e0%a7%87%e0%a6%b0-%e0%a6%a1%e0%a6%be%e0%a6%95-a-novel-campaign-and-a-nucleus-of-the-new/

We publish a document ‘Demands of the People’ adopted by a novel campaign Ekusher Dak in West Bengal that has the potential to emerge as the nucleus of a new Left formation in the state…

Job seekers at a job-fair in Chinchwad, 2019, Image courtesy Reuters/ Danish Siddiqui The 'unemployment' question, let u...
24/06/2021

Job seekers at a job-fair in Chinchwad, 2019, Image courtesy Reuters/ Danish Siddiqui The 'unemployment' question, let us put it bluntly, is not just an innocent and neutral question today but a key arena of class war - the war of Capital on society at large. Capital has its plans but does "society" have one? Enter the Post-Employment World It was reported last week that top IT sector companies like TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCL, Tech Mahindra and Cognizant…...

http://kafila.online/2021/06/24/joblessness-in-the-post-employment-world-urgent-need-for-paradigm-change/

Job seekers at a job-fair in Chinchwad, 2019, Image courtesy Reuters/ Danish Siddiqui The ‘unemployment’ question, let us put it bluntly, is not just an innocent and neutral question to…

Supporters of Left Presidential candidate Pedro Castillo take to the streets, image courtesy BBC and Reuters It seems qu...
10/06/2021

Supporters of Left Presidential candidate Pedro Castillo take to the streets, image courtesy BBC and Reuters It seems quite clear from the latest reports coming in from Peru that the Left-wing candidate Pedro Castillo is all set to win in what has been described as the most polarized election till date. With over 99 percent of the ballots counted, Castillo had taken a lead of approximately 80, 000 votes (50....

http://kafila.online/2021/06/10/no-more-poor-people-in-a-rich-country-what-will-left-victory-mean/

Supporters of Left Presidential candidate Pedro Castillo take to the streets, image courtesy BBC and Reuters It seems quite clear from the latest reports coming in from Peru that the Left-wing cand…

Guest post by SANKAR RAY History apparently allows freaks, whims and hypocrisy, but only temporarily. After all, Hegel a...
31/05/2021

Guest post by SANKAR RAY History apparently allows freaks, whims and hypocrisy, but only temporarily. After all, Hegel as very succinctly stated, ‘History is a slaughter house’. It spares none, not excluding India’s once most powerful Leftist party in the parliamentary arena, Communist Party of India (Marxist) that once had 44 MPs in the lower house of Indian parliament, Lok Sabha....

http://kafila.online/2021/05/31/cpi-ms-history-of-moving-away-from-committed-leftism-from-its-birth-sankar-ray/

Guest post by SANKAR RAY History apparently allows freaks, whims and hypocrisy, but only temporarily. After all, Hegel as very succinctly stated, ‘History is a slaughter house’. It spares none, not…

Farmers observe 'Black Day' as struggle completes six months on 26 May, image courtesy Economic Times The farmers' strug...
27/05/2021

Farmers observe 'Black Day' as struggle completes six months on 26 May, image courtesy Economic Times The farmers' struggle at the Delhi borders completed six months yesterday, the 26th of May. The day was observed as a Black Day all over the country, at the call of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM). Braving unprecedented cold, followed by rains and storm, the struggle has now moved into the cruelest part of Delhi's summer....

http://kafila.online/2021/05/27/six-months-of-the-farmers-struggle-looking-ahead/

Farmers observe ‘Black Day’ as struggle completes six months on 26 May, image courtesy Economic Times The farmers’ struggle at the Delhi borders completed six months yesterday, th…

Guest post by IRSHAD RASHID Bodies in the sand, courtesy Evening Standard and AP ‘Something is rotten in the s...
25/05/2021

Guest post by IRSHAD RASHID Bodies in the sand, courtesy Evening Standard and AP ‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’, laments Hamlet, the Prince in the eponymous play by Shakespeare. Today everything seems rotten in the Indian State. The way lives are being lost amidst this raging pandemic - with the wilful indifference and callousness of the Indian State and its appendages—calls our attention to what looms over the helm of the affairs of the state....

http://kafila.online/2021/05/25/image-management-and-rhetoric-indias-tale-of-pandemic-catastrophe-irshad-rashid/

Guest post by IRSHAD RASHID Bodies in the sand, courtesy Evening Standard and AP  ‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’, laments Hamlet, the Prince in the eponymous play by S…

A shorter version of this article appeared in Bangla earlier in Sahomon. The question of federalism and Centre-State rel...
13/05/2021

A shorter version of this article appeared in Bangla earlier in Sahomon. The question of federalism and Centre-State relations has been on many people's minds lately, given that the Centre in the Modi dispensation has been hell bent on usurping the powers of the states while slyly thrusting all responsibility on to their shoulders. As a matter of fact, it was precisely during the outbreak of Covid19, when there should have been maximum cooperation between the Centre and the States, that…...

http://kafila.online/2021/05/13/why-federalism-must-become-the-fulcrum-of-politics-in-coming-days/

A shorter version of this article appeared in Bangla earlier in Sahomon. The question of federalism and Centre-State relations has been on many people’s minds lately, given that the Centre in…

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8 नवंबर नोटबंदी के 4 साल "राष्ट्रीय आर्थिक आपदा दिवस"- इस देशव्यापी अभियान के अवसर पर हम भारत के लोग द्वारा आयोजित ऑनलाईन वेबिनार 🛑 भारतीय अर्थव्यवस्था पर अभूतपूर्व संकट 🛑 शनिवार, 31 अक्टूबर 2020 ⏳ शाम 5 से 7:30 बजे ● नोटबंदी से तालाबंदी तक अर्थव्यवस्था पर असर 🎙प्रो. अरुण कुमार (अर्थशास्त्री) ● खेती पर संकट और किसान आंदोलन 🎙 डॉ. दर्शनपाल (किसान नेता, अखिल भारतीय किसान संघर्ष समन्वय समिति) ● नए श्रम कानूनों का असर 🎙 विश्वास उटगी (पूर्व सचिव, महाराष्ट्र राज्य बैंक कर्मचारी संगठन) ● बेरोजगारी का बढ़ता संकट और उपाय 🎙 नीरज जैन (अर्थशास्त्री, सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता, लोकायत) ● केंद्र सरकार की आर्थिक नीतियों का समाज पर प्रभाव 🎙 मेधा पाटकर (सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता, जनआंदोलनों का राष्ट्रीय समन्वय) 🔸वेबिनार हिंदी में होगा । 📞 गुड्डी: 7738082170 📞 अनिता पगारे: 8080940920 📞 श्रध्दा: 9270478335

जाति और जेंडर की जुगलबंदी | सतीश देशपांडे
जाति और जेंडर की जुगलबंदी | सतीश देशपांडे

📣 अभिव्यक्ती आयोजित ऑनलाइन व्याख्यान 🟣 जाति और जेंडर की जुगलबंदी 🎙️ वक्ता: सतीश देशपांडे (लेखक, प्राध्यापक दिल्ली विश्वविद्यालय) दोस्तों, भारतीय समाज में आप भले ही जाति की मौजूदगी न जानें, लेकिन जाति सबको जानती है. हाथरस की घटना ने पुरे देश को यह दिखा भी दिया. हमारे समाज में जब महिलाओं पर अत्याचार होते हैं तब हम पुरुषी अहंकार, पितृसत्ता की बात करते हैं. लेकिन जब किसी दलित महिला पर अत्याचार होता हैं तब उसमें जातीवाद भी होता हैं. हिंसा केवल महिलाओं पर नियंत्रण करने का साधन नहीं बल्कि जाति व्यवस्था बरकरार रखने का भी एक साधन है. हमारे भारतीय समाज में जातिवाद और पितृसत्ता का समीकरण जब तक हम नहीं समझेंगे, तब तक एक न्यायपूर्ण, समतामूलक समाज बनाना मुश्किल है. इस व्याख्यान को सुनने के लिए आप आमंत्रित है. 🔸व्याख्यान हिंदी में होगा. 👍🏾लाइक और शेअर किजीए 🖋️ अभिव्यक्ति

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