Corporates in India are celebrating World Environment Day with much fanfare while they are destroying the environment by encroaching on water, forests and land.
The Chhattisgarh Maoist attack has again placed the ongoing civil war in central and eastern India’s tribal belt at the front row of public discourse. The question is why the government is avoiding peace with the ultras?
What is the purpose of Amit Shah’s West Bengal visit if not to set the BJP’s house in order and desperately woo the tribal people and Matuas?
The media showed Constable Sunaina Patel fighting Maoists in Bastar despite being eight-month-pregnant but none asked why she didn’t get maternity leave.
The Jharkhand assembly election results shouldn’t be considered a final seal on the fate of the BJP in Jharkhand. Victory for the tribals is still far away.
Maoist leader Sudip Chongdar was killed in a cold-blooded state murder at Kolkata’s Presidency Jail and MR Bangur Hospital under the direction of the TMC.
What made the Modi regime introduce 10 per cent reservation for the “economically weaker” upper-caste Hindus? Poll compulsion or carefully carved strategy?
Seven members of the Shabar tribe died due to hunger and malnutrition in the tribal-dominated Lalgarh area of West Medinipur (Paschim Medinipur) district of West Bengal in the month of November. The victims are Mangal Shabar (28), Kishan Shabar (38), Lebu Shabar (46), Sudhir Shabar (63), Savitri Shabar (51), Paltu Shabar (33) and Laltu Shabar … Read more
Ever since the Narendra Modi-led BJP government was formed, everything that the previous governments and the Indian state’s own propaganda credited as the quintessential binding factors holding the country together as a united nation, started falling apart, quite unequivocally, paving way for new fissures to appear and widened the crack in the pot called India. … Read more
The Pathalgadi movement of Jharkhand is gradually manifesting itself as the largest tribal movement of India in the 21st century. The movement that started with the demand of recognising the special status granted to the residents of the Fifth Scheduled Areas by the Indian Constitution is now turning into a serious battle between the Hindutva … Read more
The Soil of Chhattisgarh is crimsoned again in the blood of the tribal people resisting the aggression of the corporate houses on their land, water and forests. According to reports, 10 (12, according to unofficial estimate) hapless tribal people, four men and six women, were killed in a fake encounter at Pujari Kanker of Bijapur … Read more
The narrow victory of the BJP in Gujarat and its bagging of Himachal Pradesh from the control of the Congress will provide a breather to the RSS-led Hindutva fascist camp for the time being, however, the massive mass discontent that became visible in the citadel of Amit Shah and Narendra Modi, signalled that all is … Read more
The session court of Gadchiroli, Maharashtra has convicted Prof. Dr G.N. Saibaba, JNU student Hem Mishra, former freelance journalist Prashant Rahi, Mahesh Tirki, Vijay Tirki, and Pandu Narote of being “Maoists” and sentenced all to life imprisonment, except Vijay Tirki, who was awarded a 10-year jail term. The case in which these six were convicted … Read more
(This article was first published in February 2016 in the previous version of People’s Review. Due to an incident of hacking the old website was pulled down and we could only restore the old articles in this section) While the entire gamut of the media had been focused on the assault of the fascist saffron block … Read more