The legal establishment of Right to Food began in 2001, in the context of deaths of 47 Sahariyas of starvation during a drought in Baran district of Rajasthan. Similar reports in 2004, 2009 and 2011 triggered a Public Interest Litigation…
Jitendranath Mohanty, one of the most distinguished philosophers of our time, chose the hard path of thinking without closure as his life’s mission, profession, source of enjoyment and liberation. Like a master draftsman, he has left for posterity several blueprints…
Text of the message read out by Gulammohammed Sheikh at the memorial meeting for Vivan Sundaram in Delhi on 17 April 2023.
A slightly expanded version of the message Tapati Guha-Thakurta read out at the memorial meeting for Vivan Sundaram in Delhi on 17 April 2023.
Comrade Suneet Chopra left all of us the way he had lived his life. One day before the mega Kisan–Mazdoor march to Parliament on 5 April 2023, he collapsed at a metro station on his way to meet his comrades…
6 December 2022 marked the completion of thirty years since the demolition of the Babri Masjid, which heralded a major transformation of India’s polity with a former right-wing fringe rising to dominance riding on a majoritarian and communal agenda. That…
Three domes were brought down at Ayodhya on 6 December 1992, with a profound impact on the national psyche. As violence engulfed parts of the country, fears of a catastrophic collapse of the constitutional order did not seem unwarranted. Much…
Three decades of a 75-year-old nation’s existence is just a little less than half of our existence as a constitutional republic.1 Barely five months into our bloodied birth, racked by the divisions and hate that led to violence and Partition,…
The officer guided me to a room to the side of the main police station. When he opened the door I was not prepared for the scene I witnessed inside. The small dark room was packed to the rafters with…
