Soni Sori is an adivasi schoolteacher from the state of Chhattisgarh in India. On October 2011, she was arrested by the state police under several false charges. During police custody, she was beaten, tortured and sexually assaulted. As of the writing of this post, she remains in prison with no court date set for her [...]
I. Commonalities At the time of their casting off of colonialism—India gaining independence from Britain in 1947, China putting an end to a century of imperialist domination in 1949—the two largest countries in Asia shared many common characteristics. Each possessed an enormous continental landmass with a population in the hundreds of millions, the most populous [...]
In 1876, Lord Lytton, who was then Viceroy of India, decided to arrange a massive celebration in Delhi to mark the accession of Queen Victoria as the Kaiser-i-Hind, Empress of India. The feasting, with all rajas and maharajas in attendance, went on for a week and has been described by one historian as the biggest [...]
Film And Discussion Sunday May 9 @ 1:30 p.m. Cinema Room 1800 SFU Harbour Centre, 515 W. Hastings, Vancouver Join us for a film screening of the acclaimed film Lal Salaam, a fictional account based on the ongoing social, political, and economic realities that are affecting Adivasis (“tribal people”) and fueling Naxalite movements. Cast includes [...]
Interview on Al Jazeera’s Faultlines, the author and activist Arundhati Roy speaks on international politics. [youtube gnTS9gHCZoI]
The Empire is alive and well, doing its best to try and suffocate the last vestiges of resistance, but hell we know that already. Investigative journalist and award winning documentary filmmaker, John Pilger, takes us into lives of these bold resistors of The Empire in his book Freedom Next Time: Resisting The Empire. Pilger takes [...]
Spotted via BusinessWeek earlier this week, on the heels of a recent Naxalite strike against India military and corporate forces: The deadliest attack on Indian security forces in four decades of left-wing conflict underscores the challenge companies including ArcelorMittal, Posco and NMDC Ltd. face in investing in mineral-rich states. Maoist rebels killed 76 officers in [...]
By Meera Velayudhan Since the mid-1990s, Dalit women’s groups and platforms have expressed three concerns: impact of state policies, patriarchal bias of Dalit movements, and upper-caste/middle-class leadership of the women’s movement. Since then concerted efforts have been made to highlight these through common actions and other forms of engagement. These have led to wider alliances [...]
By Wilhelm Langthaler G.N. Saibaba is Assistant Professor of literature at Delhi University, India’s one of the most prestigious institute. He is one of the most vocal voices of the democratic opposition and plays an outstanding role in bringing together the most diverse trends against the ruling elite. He represents the Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF). [...]
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