2026

Abstract
Wildlife attacks across the country are no longer isolated incidents, but a natural disaster now sweeping across the rapidly expanding highly policed enclaves of wildlife preserves, the Tiger Reserves, National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries. Increasing outrage at the governance failure resulting in wildlife being forced out into the surrounding human habitations seek to address the cause even while providing expeditious acceptable just relief to the victims. Forests and its (…)

The Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan (VBSA) Bill marks a critical turning point in India

by Franz Mehring from The Communist. Vol. 8 No. 7. July, 1929.

January 21, 2026
India Should Not Join US Constituted Board of Peace
The following is the joint statement issued by the five Left Parties

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Perfect Storm: The History and Anatomy of 26/11
by Prabhakar Aloka and Nikhil Ravi
Ebury Press/Penguin Random House
Pages: xxxi + 220; Price: Rs 499
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If former Intelligence Bureau officer Prabhakar Aloka is to be believed, Pakistan

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The Caste Con Census
by Anand Teltumbde
Navayana Publishing, New Delhi
2025
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Reviewed by Srinivasulu Karli
There is a strong association made out in the existing discourse on caste in which caste data collected through the census is shown to be critical to the pursuance of social justice politics. This, of course, is sharply articulated by Rahul Gandhi with the slogan of ’jitni abadi, utna haq’ (rights proportionate to one

* Tributes to Prof. Satish Jain
* Call for General Strike on Feb 12, 2026

For long years from the 1950s to the early 1980s, India was much respected among countries of the Third World and had a position of near leadership in the non-aligned movements. But those days are long gone, particularly after the collapse of the soviet union. From the early 1990s globalisation integrated India in the world economy in ways unknown in the past and gave it a new prominence in economic terms and as a market. This new emerging India had opened a door, giving it a space on the (…)

When Hugo Chavez was elected as the president in 1998, a movement swept through Venezuela, embarking on a journey that would emerge as the Bolivarian Revolution. The movement sought to reassert sovereignty over political decision-making, natural resources and regional alliances.
Hugo Chavez named the movement after Simon Bolivar, the 19th-century Venezuelan leader who played a key role in the Latin American war of independence, and whose legacy was invoked as a symbol of sovereignty and (…)

7 Jan, 2026
A 3.2% conviction rate, years of pre-trial imprisonment, and a legal architecture designed to deny bail