Socialist India

22-year-old Mohammad Saad, Naib Imam of Anjuman Jama Masjid, was sleeping around midnight on the day of the Gurgaon riots. His plan for the day, according to his brother, was to wake up early, recite his morning prayers and return

In a whirlwind week for the prestigious classical academy, accusations of sexual harassment against Kalakshetra faculty in Chennai quickly developed into a massive scandal involving open student protests, a shabby and ham-fisted attempt at a cover-up, and an investigation by

But a genuinely Left alternative is needed to fight the BJP’s agenda    On March 23, Congress Party’s most prominent leader Rahul Gandhi was disqualified as a Lok Sabha MP less than 24 hours after he was convicted and sentenced to

In a shameful and undemocratic fashion the government of Tamil Nadu has passed, then almost immediately retracted, a bill granting big business a victory it has fought long and hard for–the power to impose a 12-hour work day. This policy

Understanding The Political Origins Karnataka was created in 1956 by merging all Kannada speaking regions. Because these regions were overlapping between other regions, even today these differences are visible ideologically. There is large scale wealth concentration in the southern part

Once again it is election season in India. The biggest and most populated state in India, Uttar Pradesh (UP) is going to the polls in what many commentators are calling one of the most polarised legislative elections in decades. Elections

As they have lost major ground against India’s working class in the farmer’s struggle, the right-wing BJP is now making young women’s bodies a battleground. The “Hijab Row” began in the southern city of Bangalore, Karnataka but protests have erupted

After nearly a year long protest by farmers, their largest mobilization in India in over half a century, the right-wing authoritarian government of Modi has finally caved and given in to the demands of the farmers. This momentous achievement shows

India has always been portrayed by capitalist apologists as a success story of capitalism but, in reality, there is a dark underbelly. One element of this is the land grab of tribal and farming areas, a decade ago openly described

As the second wave of the pandemic roars back in India, government mismanagement paired with long term neglect has left the working class in tatters. Ordinary people are forced to run from door to door, hospital to hospital in search