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महिला पहलवानों का सुबकता चेहरा – राष्ट्र अपने अंतरात्मा के दर्पण में : माया जॉन kafila.online/2023/05/17/%e0…
महिला पहलवानों का सुबकता चेहरा – राष्ट्र अपने अंतरात्मा के दर्पण में : माया जॉन

महिला पहलवानों का सुबकता चेहरा – राष्ट्र अपने अंतरात्मा के दर्पण में : माया जॉन

Guest post by MAYA JOHN यह लेख डेक्कन हेरल्ड में लिखे गए लघु लेख का हिन्दी रूपान्तरण है। रात के अंधेरे में महिला पहलवानों से दिल्ली पुलिस की हालिया हाथापाई के बाद उनका आँसुओं से भरा  चेहरा दिख…

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Decoding Jan Shakti at National Gallery of Modern Art -There is no Schindler’s List! Sandip K Luis kafila.online/2023/05/17/dec…
Decoding Jan Shakti at National Gallery of Modern Art -There is no Schindler’s List! Sandip K Luis

Decoding Jan Shakti at National Gallery of Modern Art -There is no Schindler’s List! Sandip K Luis

This post originally appeared on social media and refers to the on-going Jan Shakti exhibition at National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Delhi, which according to its description, displayed “…

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75th year of Nakba – In solidarity with the Palestinian struggle kafila.online/2023/05/16/75t…
75th year of Nakba – In solidarity with the Palestinian struggle

75th year of Nakba – In solidarity with the Palestinian struggle

Yesterday, May 15, 2023 marked the 75th anniversary of Nakba or the dispossession of the people of Palestine by the Zionist state of Israel. This is the text of a talk delivered at an event organiz…

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Israeli Apartheid and Palestinian Resistance I – Nakba and Sumoud kafila.online/2012/10/25/isr…
Israeli Apartheid and Palestinian Resistance I – Nakba and Sumoud

Israeli Apartheid and Palestinian Resistance I – Nakba and Sumoud

[In September 2012, Aditya Nigam and I had the incredible good fortune to visit Palestine. This post is the first of a series in which we reflect on our experience and what we learnt there. We stay…

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Hindutva Brigade Must Break Silence Over Espionage Allegation kafila.online/2023/05/16/hin…
Hindutva Brigade Must Break Silence Over Espionage Allegation

Hindutva Brigade Must Break Silence Over Espionage Allegation

The list of people associated with Hindutva outfits caught in damning revelations keeps growing. Recent revelations involving alleged espionage involving Prof Pradeep Kurulkar at the Defence Resear…

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How the Jayanagar Vote was Stolen – What Does Not Add Up: Amandeep Sandhu kafila.online/2023/05/15/how…
How the Jayanagar Vote was Stolen – What Does Not Add Up: Amandeep Sandhu

How the Jayanagar Vote was Stolen – What Does Not Add Up: Amandeep Sandhu

Guest post by AMANDEEP SANDHU [This post is a report on what went on in Jayanagar, a constituency in the southern parts of Bangalore, in the Vidhansabha Elections, May 2023] Yesterday, 13 May, by 2…

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The Kerala Story, Hindutva, and Malayali Women kafila.online/2023/05/06/the…
The Kerala Story, Hindutva, and Malayali Women

The Kerala Story, Hindutva, and Malayali Women

The movie called The Kerala Story is hate-speech against a whole people, but our courts are great upholders of free speech. Of course, unless people with the surname ‘Modi’ are said to …

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भारत में अंतर्राष्ट्रीय मजदूर दिवस के 100 साल – तब और अब : माया जॉन kafila.online/2023/05/02/%e0…
भारत में अंतर्राष्ट्रीय मजदूर दिवस के 100 साल – तब और अब : माया जॉन

भारत में अंतर्राष्ट्रीय मजदूर दिवस के 100 साल – तब और अब : माया जॉन

Guest post by MAYA JOHN यह लेख इंडियन एक्सप्रेस में मई दिवस 2023 पर लिखे गए लघु लेख का हिन्दी रूपान्तरण है। वो दिन ज़रूर आएगा जब हमारी खामोशी उन आवाज़ों से ज्यादा ताकतवर होगी जिनको आज तुम दबा रहे ह…

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Why I will go to the DHRM’s Meetings kafila.online/2023/04/26/why…
Why I will go to the DHRM’s Meetings

Why I will go to the DHRM’s Meetings

Someone just asked me why I would ‘still be soft on’ the Dalit Human Rights Movement — why I would speak at their meetings. For those who have not heard of them, the DHRM is a mas…

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B 32 to 44: Body Politics or No Body/Politics? kafila.online/2023/04/13/b-3…
B 32 to 44: Body Politics or No Body/Politics?

B 32 to 44: Body Politics or No Body/Politics?

B 32 to 44 is the title of a movie — it refers to the bra sizes of the protagonists of director and scriptwriter Sruthi Sharanyam’s debut film, which has been generating highly positive…

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Statement by Historians and Concerned Scholars on Recent Changes Made by NCERT in Textbooks kafila.online/2023/04/09/sta…
Statement by Historians and Concerned Scholars on Recent Changes Made by NCERT in Textbooks

Statement by Historians and Concerned Scholars on Recent Changes Made by NCERT in Textbooks

Received via Maya John, the following statement was issued by over 250 historians and concerned scholars, protesting against the blatantly ideologically driven agenda of the present government in d…

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Turning a Blind Eye: Power and the Intellectual in Kerala Today kafila.online/2023/04/08/tur…
Turning a Blind Eye: Power and the Intellectual in Kerala Today

Turning a Blind Eye: Power and the Intellectual in Kerala Today

Today someone who is an absolute darling of the post-socialist oligarchy in Kerala and their army of hanger-ons told me, without a tinge of irony, with the most endearing innocence, that they were …

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The Goba of Ladakh – Current Relevance of a Traditional Governance System: Shrishtee Bajpai and Ashish Kothari kafila.online/2023/03/27/the…
The Goba of Ladakh – Current Relevance of a Traditional Governance System: Shrishtee Bajpai and...

The Goba of Ladakh – Current Relevance of a Traditional Governance System: Shrishtee Bajpai and...

Guest post by SHRISHTEE BAJPAI and ASHISH KOTHARI Abstract: Indigenous and other local communities across India have had traditional systems of local governance as unwritten or sometimes written co…

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Can we go back to practicing love? Thoughts on safety and feminism from Kerala kafila.online/2023/03/26/can…
Can we now practice some love? Thoughts on safety and feminism from Kerala

Can we now practice some love? Thoughts on safety and feminism from Kerala

Around two weeks back, just about a week after the ritual of Women’s Day celebrations in Thiruvananthapuram, a 49-year-old woman decided to go get herself some pain medication at 10 30 at nig…

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G-20 – A Brutal Beautification of the City:  Glory Rose Roy kafila.online/2023/03/16/g-2…
G-20 – A Brutal Beautification of the City: Glory Rose Roy

G-20 – A Brutal Beautification of the City:  Glory Rose Roy

GUEST POST by GLORY ROSE ROY The Delhi Durbar of 1911 has great significance in the history of India in terms of hosting King George V, along with the Queen and other guests. Undoubtedly, the entir…

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Science as a Cultural Ideal – Ravi Sinha kafila.online/2023/03/16/sci…
Science as a Cultural Ideal – Ravi Sinha

Science as a Cultural Ideal – Ravi Sinha

Theme : Science as a Cultural Ideal Despite frequent misgivings about universal claims of modern science and despite it being taken often as an accomplice of western imperialism, it is impossible f…

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Water vs. Fire in Kerala kafila.online/2023/03/12/wat…
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When Does Democracy Undermines Itself : Dr Ravi Sinha kafila.online/2023/03/06/whe…
When Does Democracy Undermines Itself : Dr Ravi Sinha

When Does Democracy Undermines Itself : Dr Ravi Sinha

Dear Friends New Socialist Initiative ( NSI) South, recently organised two lectures by one of its senior Comrades Dr Ravi Sinha in Hyderabad.  First lecture was on ‘Fascism and Democrati…

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Rewriting Biopolitics? The Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishat and the Left kafila.online/2023/02/27/rew…
Rewriting Biopolitics? The Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishat and the Left

Rewriting Biopolitics? The Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishat and the Left

[This is a response to many who ask me why I chose to be part of the KSSP’s ongoing Kerala Padayatra, which seeks to highlight crucial issues in development and governance in Kerala.]

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Fascism and Democratic Polity : How Did India Land in This Crisis ? – Dr Ravi Sinha kafila.online/2023/02/23/fas…
Fascism and Democratic Polity : How Did India Land in This Crisis ? – Dr Ravi Sinha

Fascism and Democratic Polity : How Did India Land in This Crisis ? – Dr Ravi Sinha

New Socialist Initiative ( NSI) South, recently organised two lectures by one of its senior Comrades Dr Ravi Sinha in Hyderabad.  First lecture was on ‘Fascism and Democratic Polity : Ho…

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