2023

FILM REVIEW
by Raj Kumar Thakur *
The movie, Avataar: The Way of Water (2022) is a dive into the lifeworld of the refugees. While in the previous movie, i.e., Avataar (2009), the director James Cameron gave us an overview of how the imperialist zeal of human beings took them to the Navi tribe, this movie shows a revival of their zeal for minerals and a disguised attack on the Navi’s by posing as Navi. In the process, the movie gives us a vivid picture of how refugees are made. If one (…)

by Chetna Trivedi *
The rising incidents of violence in the modern-day context speak to us in multiple ways. It forces society to question and revisit its discourse on morality. Do we have a moral ground to hold anymore? Or morality has become subjective to the extent that it has been relegated to the individual sphere to decide whether a particular action has an ethically warranted consequence. The barbaric murder of a 26year old woman in Delhi by her live-in partner unveiled in the month (…)

The capitalist model of development based on neo-liberal ideology since 1990s privileged an integrated global market economy that became crucial to conquer economic inflation, remove imbalances in payment, increase economic growth rate and secure stabilization of the economy. Often referred to as the second-generation reforms, economic liberalisation saw a paradigm shift from closed economy to open economy that liberalised trade, interest rates, competitive exchange rates, and fiscal flow of (…)

by Rushikesh Gawade *
Technology and the enhanced scope for money have reshaped cricket and the way people interact with it. But will the game’s essence be lost in the process?
Cricket is famously revered in India. Sometimes referred to as a ‘religion’ because of its huge popularity, for many years when the national team played, people in villages across the country would crowd around televisions to watch. If a TV was not available, people would carry transistor radios to listen to the (…)

by Archishman Raju *
It is one of the extraordinary stories of the 20th century that the civil rights movement in the United States adopted and advanced the ideas of the Indian Freedom Struggle. What allowed the Gandhian ideas of ahimsa and satyagraha, which derived from ancient Indian philosophy, to be so readily accepted and so successfully applied by Afro-American people? The story of this connection extends across time and space, with African American intellectuals like W.E.B Du Bois (…)

Nachiketa Desai
(26. 10. 1951 – 5.02 2023)
Nachiketa Desai a journalist passed away on in Ahmedabad on Sunday, 5th February after a fall at his house. Why should a journalist’s death, make news when the entire profession has been dealt a dying blow by massive lay-offs, corporate takeover, dissolution of the Working Journalists’ Act and destroying the profession that was once held as the Fourth Estate?
Nachiketa Desai was a special person; while he was courageously battling cancer and (…)

by Lee Shevek *
For far too long have radical communities and their discourses treated domestic violence and abuse as external from the considerations of revolutionary struggle. Abuse is seen as simply an interpersonal issue, springing from individual pathology which we must address by correcting certain behaviors and teaching better communication skills. The intervention tools of choice are frequently limited to restorative or transformative justice practices, with the ultimate aim of (…)

Right To Nationality and Citizenship Network
January 31, 2023
On 27 January 2023, India’s biggest detention centre was opened in Matia, Goalpara district, Assam. 68 persons were shifted to the centre, with more expected to be shifted soon. Sanctioned in 2018 by the Ministry of Home Affairs for Rs 46 crores, the 25 bigha centre can house between 3000 to 3,500 persons. The camp at Matia will replace the six detention centres operating out of jails in Goalpara, Kokrajhar, Silchar, (…)

All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
09th February 2022
Press Release
The appeal of Animal Welfare Board of India to mark February 14th as ‘cow hug day’ is shocking and outrageously appalling. The fact that the appeal comes with the approval of the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying is all the more deplorable. Such an unscientific balderdash, reportedly accepted and approved by a government department is absolutely unconstitutional, for, the Indian constitution (…)

MUMBAI PRESS CLUB PRESS STATEMENT February 8, 2023
MAHARASHTRA GOVERNMENT MUST INITIATE IMMEDIATE AND SERIOUS ACTION AGAINST THE KILLERS OF JOURNALIST SHASHIKANT WARISHE
The Mumbai Press Club is shocked at the brutal, public murder of journalist Shashikant Warishe near Rajapur, in the Konkan Region of Maharashtra. The killing in broad daylight brings to the fore once again the plummeting standards of civil liberties and free speech in the country and the brazen attempt by both state (…)