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  • Walkers in Kochi. | Sivaram V/Reuters

    Going off script: Our front row view of another Kerala story

    Originally published: Scroll.in on August 11, 2025 by Aishwarya Prakash & Rahul Kamal (more by Scroll.in)  | (Posted Aug 13, 2025)

    The state is far from perfect. But it offers a glimpse of what the world could look like when human well-being is prioritised in everyday life.

  • A Palestinian boy at the site of Israeli strikes on a mosque and houses, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on January 25. | Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/ Reuters

    Arundhati Roy on Gaza: N̶e̶v̶e̶r̶ Again

    Originally published: Scroll.in on March 7, 2024 (more by Scroll.in)  |

    The millions of protestors on the streets of Europe and the U.S. are the hope for the future of the world..

  • Arundhati Roy at a press conference in 2020. | Prakash Singh / AFP

    The dismantling of democracy in India will affect the whole world

    Originally published: Scroll.in on September 14, 2023 by Arundhati Roy (more by Scroll.in)  | (Posted Sep 18, 2023)

    The text of the writer’s speech as she received the 45th European Essay Prize on September 12.

  • A file photo of activist Varavara Rao. | IANS

    Bhima Koregaon: Varavara Rao gets bail on medical grounds for six months

    Originally published: Scroll.in on February 21, 2021 (more by Scroll.in)  | (Posted Feb 23, 2021)

    Just as the Bombay HC pronounced the verdict, the additional solicitor general sought a stay on the order for three weeks. However, the court rejected it.

  • A screenshot of the Newsclick logo. | Newsclick.in

    Modi government attacks the media

    Originally published: Scroll.in on February 10, 2021 by Scroll Staff (more by Scroll.in)  | (Posted Feb 11, 2021)

    The Editors Guild of India, The Press Club of India and The Communist Party of India (Marxist) condemned the action against the news portal.

  • Sagar Abraham-Gonsalves takes a selfie with his parents Vernon Gonsalves and Susan Abraham as the police finished a raid on their home in Mumbai on Tuesday. Minutes later, Vernon Gonsalves was arrested. | Sagar Abraham-Gonsalves

    ‘Don’t worry, said father. Mother served the constables tea’

    Originally published: Scroll.in on August 30, 2018 by Sagar Abraham-Gonsalves (more by Scroll.in)  | (Posted Sep 13, 2018)

    Sagar Abraham-Gonsalves writes about his clawing helplessness as his father, Vernon Gonsalves, was arrested on Tuesday in the Bhima-Koregaon case.

  • The ugliness of colonial power in India

    Third World Quarterly row: Why some western intellectuals are trying to debrutalise colonialism

    Originally published: Scroll.in on September 21, 2017 (more by Scroll.in)  |

    Vijay Prashad explains his resignation from the editorial board of Third World Quarterly after it published an apologia for colonialism.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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