The Land Ordinance (now Bill) is Bringing Back the Colonial Legacy: NAPM
The Real Battle is between Farmers and Land Grabbing Corporates and BJP, not between Bharat and Pakistan! Kafila By Nivedita Menon 1 March 2015 Statement from National Alliance of People’s Movements Forcible land…
Kolkata, India: Reflections on the Jadavpur Protests
Unprecedented is too mild an epithet to describe the Saturday rally by Kolkata students. The number is most conservatively [by the police] 80,000 and by watchers 1,10,000 and more because no one can…
Sensex and sensibility, by Peter deSouza
The issue of sensibility should be at the top of the new government’s agenda because its attitude to freedom of expression will determine whether it is truly committed to the wonder that is…
Raj Dharma and Buddhi dharma
There seems to be some anxiety among the intellectual class about doing their duty and being critical of the lapses of the ruling dispensation” Author: Peter Ronald deSouza Source: The Hindu / June…
Aggression of the ascetic, by Shiv Visvanathan
Deconstructing Modi’s semiotic war: Is it the end of Nehruvian India? Open Shiv Visvanathan* considers himself a social science nomad 16 May 2014 I come from a family of scientists who are as…
National Consultation – Mine Labour Protection Campaign (MLPC) in India
Mine Labour Protection Campaign Trust is a NGO based in Rajasthan. We work on Sustainable Mining, Occupational Health and Safety, Economic empowerment of Mine workers and on prevention of child labour, to name…
El Partido del 25 de Abril
Sospecho que tarde o temprano –asegura Boaventura de Sousa Santos en esta crónica– va a surgir en Portugal el partido del hombre y la mujer comunes. Ya tiene nombre y muchos adeptos. Se…
Jaipur Literature Festival – Democracy in discussion
Jaipur is the capital of the Indian state of Rajasthan where every year takes place the biggest free literature festival of the world, known as Jaipur Literature Festival. The seventh edition run between…
In the relief camps of Muzaffarnagar and Shamli
This report was prepared by a group of citizens (whose names are given at the end), and released on 20 September 2013. Kafila A Preliminary Citizens’ Report 20 Sep 2013 A. On September…
Europeans of An Other Colour – Why the Goans are Portuguese
This article serves as a response to Sir Andrew Green’s comment on the alleged misuse of Portuguese citizenship by Indian nationals of Goan origin whom the Daily Star and the Daily Mail have…
