Book Announcement: The Journey of the Farmers’ Rebellion
Temperatures are rising, and so is Hindutva hate. Rainfall is drying up, and so is employment. The people are losing to the corporates and ruling classes on every front, except one: the farmers’ movement of 2020–21 managed to push them back: the anti-people farm laws passed in September 2020 were repealed in November 2021. The…
Decay of Indian National Institutes: A Case Study of CCMB
Many students on Twitter have been talking about the delayed disbursement of stipends. Over the last 12 months, students have reported that they have not received their scholarship nor the funds for their PI projects.1 We spoke to several research scholars at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) to understand this situation better……
Is Depression just Depression?
If you, who is reading this letter can do anything for me, I have to get seven months of my fellowship, one lakh and seventy five thousand rupees. Please see to it that my family is paid that. Even as all of us were moved by the sheer force of Vemula’s last words, this banality…
Dispatches from a Social Work College
This piece is about some events at the Madras School of Social Work (MSSW) in Chennai. In the past, we have covered the unjust dismissal of Prof R G Sudharson from MSSW,1 essentially for speaking up on behalf of social justice. Since then, we have been in contact with some students at the college, who…
Privatisation is Violence: On the Predicament of Medical Students in Ukraine
The last week has seen another addition to the litany of brutal wars ravaging our brothers and sisters on this little planet we call home; Ukraine has joined Syria, Yemen, etc, to the club of countries having to fight off invasions by imperialist superpowers, each one of them invaded for the economic and geopolitical interests…
An Invitation to Ivan Illich’s Tools for Conviviality
— Anirudh Wodeyar I have been looking for books that help me understand our world, and help me articulate my struggles with it for a while now. This is one of those books. Tools for Conviviality laid bare why I find difficulty managing the speed at which the world operates — we’ve opted for a…
NotA Statement on the Hijab Ban
NotA strongly condemns the Hijab ban imposed by the Karnataka state government. We express solidarity with all the students who have been protesting this act of blatant exclusion and bigotry. These students have the good sense, virtue and courage to oppose this assault on their fundamental rights. We stand by them. The ban restricts the…
Embedded Journalism for the Working Class: An Interview with Workers’ Unity
Workers’ Unity (WU) is a news outlet that reports on working class movements in various parts of the country, from Bangalore to Rajasthan to Punjab and Delhi. They go to demonstrations, protests, and events wherever they’re happening, and interview common people and leaders about the problems they’re facing and why they’re out in the streets.…
How A Single Spark Can Ignite A Fire
This article was originally published in The Truth, as the editorial in its January 2022 issue, about the recent protests in Bihar. Yes, it is true. A single spark can set the whole forest on fire. RRB-NTPC-Group D job aspirants’ struggle is one more example of the correctness of this popular idiom. Just see. On…
School Is Cancelled!An Invitation to Deschooling Society
— The NotA Collective Authored by a Croatian who at various times in his life was a Roman Catholic priest, a theologian-philosopher, and a social critic, the author of Deschooling Society comes out swinging and he isn’t pulling any punches: “Universal education through schooling is not feasible. It would be no more feasible if it…
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