Freedom, Justice and Privacy: What Is At Stake Behind the Jargon Of Data Protection

Our government and technocrats tell us data is the new oil. This is a lie. At the root of this narrative is the erasure of the central power of information. Who holds it. And over whom.

SREEMOYEE MUKHERJEE

The People’s Agenda Won Bihar Elections

What Bihar saw during the polls in early October was the beginning of a politics driven by the upsurge of progressivism. Public discourse was centered around the welfare and safety of jobs, education and health

N Sai Balaji

The Farmer Protests and the Importance of Mandis

By passing the three new agriculture-related laws in September, the Centre has enacted its vision of an agricultural sector tending to the economic interests of large corporates, and the erosion of the mandi system, which is India’s primary agricultural marketing infrastructure.

SHIVANI GUPTA

The Law Is Casteist: Part 2

Lawyers Disha Wadekar and Nikita Sonavane give deep and searing insight into their personal and intellectual understanding of the inherent casteist bias of the Indian legal system.

DISHA WADEKAR and NIKITA SONAVANE

The Law is Casteist

Lawyers Disha Wadekar and Nikita Sonavane give deep and searing insight into their personal and intellectual understanding of the inherent casteist bias of the Indian legal system.

DISHA WADEKAR and NIKITA SONAVANE

Caste and Gender: A Systemic Obliteration of Justice

The legal system, rather than effectively and actively working to hold those who commit caste-based crimes acocuntable for their actions, has instead become a space for further discrimination.

SANTVANA KUMAR

We Must Call It What It Is: Caste-Based Violence

A nineteen-year-old girl who belonged to a Dalit community was brutally raped and killed by four upper caste men. This is not just a case of rape. It’s a caste atrocity.

JYOTSNA SIDDHARTH

‘A silk weaver can only weave silk, he cannot wear it.’

The Tamil film, Kanchivaram, explores the exploitation of weavers in Tamil Nadu through the story of its protagonist Vengadam, who belongs to the traditional silk weaving community, and is set within a period that saw weavers struggling with economic inequality and rapidly rising suicide rates.

SAACHI D'SOUZA

Biden-Harris are not the Real Winners

The historic contours of the 2020 US Presidential election are not something we take lightly. Yet, it is our experience as residents of this historic American city, Philadelphia that local, grassroots efforts and sustained organising are the only path toward an equitable future in this country.

Tausif Noor and Chip Sinton

The Women, The System, The Struggle: The Story of ASHA Workers

What do a million women, who connect remote parts of this country to healthcare, do when a system insists on deflating their worth?

SAUMYA KALIA

What We Get Wrong About Drug Abuse

Drugs and addiction are fundamentally intertwined, and yet the word ‘addiction’ does not appear in the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (1985) of India.

RONNY SEN