Geography Archives: India

This dossier catalogues the immense cultural production of the Telangana armed struggle in India and how it inspired the people to participate in cycles of protest against colonialism, monarchy, and landlordism, building on the idea that art and culture are both produced by the class struggle and, in turn, produce the class struggle.

The collusion of the mainstream media with this regime has drawn a screen over the real situation our country is in.

In the dialectical spiral of culture, poems, songs, and stories inspire us to act and depict our actions, which in turn inspires others to do the same.

ON Independence Day–August 15th–we generally take stock of the path we have travelled since 1947. Today, I will take a different tack and focus on how or why a handful of European countries end up controlling major parts of the world.

DURING Modi’s visit to Ukraine (why he visited Ukraine at all at the present time remains a mystery), Zelensky asked India not to purchase fuel from Russia in violation of western sanctions, that is, to fall in line with the “unilateral” western sanctions.

Following the the murder of a young female doctor in Kolkata, health workers, medical unions, and women’s movements have mobilised across the country to decry rampant gender-based violence and dangerous working conditions.

Our country must move beyond symbolic representations of women like Kali, Durga, Lakshmi, and Saraswati, and instead offer genuine respect and equality.

The call for the nationwide vigil to “reclaim the night” was given by the left groups following the rape and murder of a medical staff on duty in Kolkata last week.

In this week in 2019, India enforced a communications blackout in Jammu and Kashmir. A new writing project chronicles the crackdown which followed and how its techniques of oppression were borrowed from Israel’s occupation of Palestine.

Global capital through the international finance system has obtained near hegemony and capitalism is projected as the best and most superior system in history.

Disqualified after becoming first Indian women wrestler to enter the finals in Olympics, Phogat along with her colleagues have been waging a protracted battle against the sexual harassment in country’s wrestling federation

There is a problem, fundamentally, in viewing the regime change in Bangladesh as a ‘stand-alone’ event.

Vijay Prashad reflects on the last several weeks in Bangladesh of protests and convulsions, which culminated in the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

The early twentieth century saw a wave of anti-colonial struggles that took the form of the labour strike.

The wedding of Indian billionaire heir Anant Ambani and pharmaceutical heiress Radhika Anant Ambani seems to be never-ending. It’s not just good business sense for the Ambanis, it’s also a way we are socialized into Hindutva-neoliberalism.

There is an expectation that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would prioritise a historic turnaround in India’s relations with China as a legacy of his 15 years in power. Things are indeed moving in such a direction. 

From the 1942 ‘American century’ to Trump’s ‘American carnage’, the U.S. has shifted from a post-WW2 boom to decline, facing political divides, economic crisis, poverty, and social decay.

In his opus ‘The Wealth of Nations’ published in 1776 Adam Smith drew a distinction between the progressive state, the stationary state and the declining state.

The ‘billionaire raj’ of the reform period has emerged to be far more unequal than the ‘British Raj’.

The lodestar of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on July 8-9, it must be the disclosure by the Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration in the Kremlin Maxim Oreshkin that the two leaders discussed the topic of cash payments with the use of cards of national payment systems as an important element of trade support infrastructure and interaction in general.