2025

10 December 2025
We, concerned Indian citizens and organisations, are alarmed to note that efforts are being made to promote biometric identity systems similar to Aadhaar in other countries.
Aadhaar is India

* Manufacturing Steel, Manufacturing Chaos: On the Capitalist Pressure to Extract in Odisha - Part 1 | Ranjana Padhi
* Obituary: James Watson (1928-2025) | Jos Chathukulam
* Occupational Health | Arun Mitra
* So Long As the Father Is the Law, Mothers Must Be Outlaws | Sarah Harpy

Letter to the readers:
The dismantling of the secular republic of India began 33 years ago, when a mob of thousands of Hindu extremists associated with Vishwa Hindu Parishad, the Rashtra SwayamSevak Sangh (RSS) demolished the Babri mosque in Uttar Pradesh on December 6, 1992, in full public view. It was a high point of a political campaign by Hindu fundamentalists, along with the BJP leaders, to construct a temple to Lord Rama at the site of the 15th-century Babri mosque in Ayodhya. The mosque

A few doctors from the Kashmir valley have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the recent Red Fort bomb blast case. The entire doctor community in J&K is now suspect in the eyes of the Indian State. Very recently, The Indian Express reported (November 28, 2025):

Introduction:
The Armed Forces Special Powers Act of 1958 has been the most controversial component of the internal security apparatus in postcolonial India. In this essay we explore the application of this act with regard to its prolonged use in the state of Manipur, marked by profound ethnic diversity and a long history of armed movements. Although this was ostensibly a temporary provision for the restoration of public order, the continued enforcement of the AFSPA, particularly its (…)

After the Congress no-show in the November 2025 Bihar assembly election, Rahul Gandhi has become the punching pad for his friends and foes alike.
Everyone, irrespective of their political standing, is blaming him for the disastrous performance of not only the Congress, but INDIA bloc. The common refrain is: he did not handle the assembly election as it ought to have been. However, no one is pointing a finger at themselves or is ready to actually underline what should have been the correct (…)

04.12.2025
Occupational Health and safety has been an issue of serious concern of health personnel as well as the workers

Allegations of large-scale

(This article is in two parts. Part One gives an overview of how steel production has scaled new heights in Odisha as India becomes the second largest steel producer in the world. It is almost twenty years since the infamous killing of 13 Adivasis in Kalinganagar, which is the steel hub of Odisha. This part shows how mass steel production is accompanied by ecological degradation, unemployment, migration and a sharp rise in health hazards. It also traces the condition of workers in steel (…)

Nobel Prize- winning American scientist James Dewey Watson, the man who unravelled the