Playing with Fire

Comment: Everyday Imperialism

Note: The Delusions of Growth - I Satya Sundaram

Crisis in Tea Industry of West Bengal–1 - Aswini Kumar Pramanik & Nityananda Ghosh

Partha Chatterjee on Kolkata Anthropology - Abhijit Guha

Indian Muslims or High Caste Hindus? -Shamsul Islam

Letters

Modi in Wonderland

Comment: Lineages of Lies and British Politics

Note: China is not the Alternative - Bharat Dogra

Crisis in Tea Industry of West Bengal–II - Aswini Kumar Pramanik & Nityananda Ghosh

Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom - Joydip Ghosal

Diplomatic Hype or What? - Nilofar Suhrawardy

‘Marginalised but not Defeated’ - Amit Sengupta

What Ails Indian Communist Movement? - T Vijayendra

Letters

India vs China

Comment: Climate Issues are Class Issues

Note: Gandhi and Gita Press - Arup Kumar Sen

Uniform Civil Code: Is It Desirable? - I Mallikarjuna Sharma

Opposition: Playing to the BJP’s Script - Yogendra Yadav

Emergency and RSS - Shamsul Islam

‘The Gorakhpur Hospital Tragedy’ - Joydip Ghosal

Expelling Each Other’s Journalists - Ramakrishnan

‘Surfeit of Democracy’ - Nilofar Suhrawardy

Victims of Torture - Kirity Roy

Ever Rising US Military Budget - Bharat Dogra

Letters

Fascism, Bengal Style

Comment: The Coup Is Over

Note: Telangana–A Police State - CASR

Muslim Women’s Quest for Gender–Just Laws - Sabah Khan

The Dilemma of Liberal Muslims - Moin Qazi

Facets of Poverty in America - I Satya Sundaram

A Sleepless Poet - Asok Chattopadhyay

Authoritarianism in Action - Notan Kar

From Bellampalli to Dandakaranya - V Subrahmanyam

Letters

A Show in Vilnius

Comment: Wooing the Dalit Voters

Note: Good Work and Revolutionary Good Work - Bharat Dogra

“Nine Wonderful Modi Years” - Pamela Philipose

‘No Vacancy’ - The Wire Staff

India Will Pay but Micron Will Own - Prabir Purkayastha

“Give Back the Future” - Ardhendu Banerjee

Enquiring the ‘Marriage Question’ - Paloma Chaterji

The Global South is Asserting - Vijay Prashad

‘Bengal Beyond Boundaries’ - Uma Nair

Russian Lawyers against War - Lucy Papachristou

Macron vs the French Workers - John Mullen

Letters

Defending Barbarism

Comment: ‘Friends of Socialist China’

Note: Wrongly Arrested Activists - Bharat Dogra

Manipur: Towards a Just and Peaceful Solution - Vijay Singh

Alliance of 26 Parties - Bhabani Shankar Nayak

Hope and Street Aggregation - Yogendra Yadav

AI and the Fate of the World - Richard Heinberg

Russia Exits Grain Deal - Hanna Duggal

Kuki Women Wanted To Be Heard - Kavita Krishnan

Letters

Many Loose Ends

Comment: ‘Demographic Dividend?’

Note: Keeping Away GM Corn - Bharat Dogra

In Search of ‘Chitrangada’ - Saswati Datta Roy

Communalism Today - Interview

Commemorating 40th Death Anniversary - Harsh Thakor

‘Oppenheimer’: ‘The Father of Atom Bomb’ - Manohla Dargis

Capitalist Dream of AI-Driven Profits - Sonali Kolhatkar

Letters

‘Winds of Change’?

Comment: Dragging On

Note: Tribal Uprising in Jammu & Kashmir - NAPM

It Is Not Hindu-Christian Binary - Yogendra Yadav

“Fascism and Big Business” - Prabhat Patnaik

Can the ‘Lower-Class’ Dream? - Swapnanil Mukherjee & Satyaki Dasgupta

Despair among Chakmas in CHT - Rani Yan Yan

Silencing a Sane Voice - Joydip Ghosal

A Mascot of People’s Liberation - Harsh Thakor

Democracy Abroad, Autocracy at Home - Arjun Appadurai

Letters

August 15

Comment: Burning in the Dark

Note: Focus on Millets - I Satya Sundaram

Quit India Movement - Prem Singh

Disinformation Campaigns against China and Pakistan - Ramakrishnan

Demolishing Gandhian Institute of Studies - Chandan Pal

Gaddar–a Legend in his Own Lifetime - Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd

Mourning Samar Bagchi - Asit Roy

Letters

Violence on Campus

Comment: Partition of India

Note: Over to ‘Nuh’ - Ram Puniyani

Of Reality and Political Illusions! - Ranganayakamma

Returning Sahitya Akademi Award - Sandeep Pandey

Threatening Local Businesses and Workers’ Rights - Hannah Ellis-Petersen

Religious Minorities in Pakistan - Imran Ahmed

Potuas of Kalighat - Noor Anand Chawla

Letters

“Sideline Diplomacy”

Comment: BRICS Alignment and the Empire

Note: Singing about ‘Floating in Tears’ - Sonia Sarkar

Vishwa Guru’s Sleuths! - Subhash Gatade

Fried Fish and Flying ‘Cheels’ - Farooque Chowdhury

Big Problems, Small Wins - Sabina Dewan

End of Wagner's Rebellion against Putin - Ellen Knickmeyer, Joe Sommerlad & Jane Dalton

The Kashmir Files Unreported - Deepa Gahlot

The ‘Toilet Man’ of India - Vidya Bhushan Rawat

Letters

Against ‘Communal Fascism’?

Comment: Face Value

Note: A People’s Journalist - Abhay Kumar

On the Dark Side of the Moon - Kamalesh Roy

What about Manual Scavenging? - Ranganayakamma

‘Indian Version of McCarthyism’ - N Ram

Democracy Abroad, Autocracy at Home - Arjun Appadurai

The Rise and Fall of ‘Yatra’ - Sukanta Sarkar

Wildfires and Indigenous People - Bharat Dogra

Letters

The Delhi Declaration

Comment: War and Corruption

Note: Graveyards for Marginalised Students - Pranav Jeevan P

‘One Nation, One Election’ - Dipankar Bhattacharya

Remembering Sthabir Dasgupta - Jayanta Bhattacharya

Denigrating Hindu Women - Shamsul Islam

Himachal: ‘Development’ Leads to Destruction - Bharat Dogra

Fight for Fair Wage - Atanu Chakravarty

Patidars of Bengal - Sonia Sarkar

The Ghosts of the Disappeared - Lucia Newman

Letters

Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency

Comment: Journalism and Journalists

Note: Distress in the Sahel and Imperialism - Bharat Dogra

“Final Speech” Salvador Allende (1973)

Arundhati Roy on G20 and Minorities

ASHA Workers of Bihar Win - By a Correspondent

‘The Present as History 2021’ - Somenath Guha

Janajati–Heading Towards Extinction? - Sukanta Sarkar

A Poignant Account on Pandemic - Joydip Ghosal

Extras will be Replaced by AI - Bobby Allyn

Letters

Resurrecting Khalistan

Comment: Integration of Hyderabad

Note: RTI–Is Transparency Decreasing? - Bharat Dogra

Ignoring Alarm Bells

One Nation, One Election - Ajit Ranade

Meitis are Fighting for Lost Identity - Notan Kar

BJP Is Echoing Jinnah - Ram Puniyani

Assam CM Contradicts RSS Archives - Shamsul Islam

‘Khalistan is a Business’ - Archana Masih & Nikhil Lakshman

Three Unforgettable UNGA Moments - By Al Jazeera Staff

Stifling Niyamgiri Voice - NSS

Letters

Activity sans Action

Comment: Rethinking Aadhaar Judgement

Note: Italian Anarchists on Ukraine War - Tridnivalka

Women’s Reservation Bill - Sukla Sen

Politics of Freebies - Sukanta Sarkar

Reinforcing the Varna System - Shanvar V

Recent Discourses on Tamil Nationalism - Solomon Victus

Born Dalit: Always In and Out - Rajesh Chavda

Remembering Thana Singh - Harsh Thakor

Letters

Genocide in Gaza

Comment: Demand for Caste Census

Note: Devastating Gaza - Rudra Sen

Marx’s Reflections on the Arab World - Marcello Musto

Why Peace in Israel Failed - Thomas Fazi

Time Puzzle for Marxist Practitioners and Revolutionary Unity - Arup Baisya

India, Israel and Palestine - Shamsul Islam

Letters

CORRECTION

The Empire’s Declining Authority

Comment: A ‘Graveyard of Children’

Note: Destroying Palestinian Livelihoods - Bharat Dogra

No Money, No Vote - Yogendra Yadav

Mohan Bhagwat and Ambedkar - Ram Puniyani

Palestine National Liberation Movement - Firas Sarhan

Cruelty and Compassion - Prem Singh

‘Mujib: The Making of a Nation’ - Deepa Gahlot

Forum against Fascism - Shatabdi Das

One Bikraman Nair - Nityananda Ghosh

Press and Registration of Periodicals Bill - CJP

Letters

Stop World War 3

Comment: Indians Replacing Palestinians?

Note: COP 28 - Bharat Dogra

Remembering Subhas Ganguly - Dipak Piplai

Workers out of NREGA - Siraj Dutta

Plight of Migrant Workers of Bengal - Atanu Chakravarty

Reviving Chattisgarhi ‘Nacha’ Tradition - Sameera Iyengar

Why isn’t the World Listening? - Raz Segal

The Gaza Strip: A Brief History - Jackson Graham, Angus Holland & Matt Wade

So Many Palestinian Prisoners

Comment: Patnaik’s Fiefdom–Odisha Today

Note: COP 28–New Approach Needed - Bharat Dogra

Revisiting Ambedkar’s Democratic Legacy - Dipankar Bhattacharya

Silence on Caste Inequality - YogendraYadav

‘Shadow Armies’ - Joydip Ghosal

Israel’s War on Journalists - Jonathan Shamir

The Story of ‘AALO’ - Sukanta Sarkar

Letters

Whither ‘INDIA’?

Comment: Oil Barons Run the Show

Note: Babri Mosque: 31 Years Later - Shamsul Islam

Back from the Silkyara Tunnel - Atanu Chakravarty

Days and Nights of ‘Kalitala’ - Sumedha Dey

What Kissinger Wrought - Dylan Matthews

Constitution Day and Ambedkar - I Mallikarjuna Sharma

Is Palestine Considered a State? - Clare Roth

Manthan (Churning) 1976 - Sobhika Vasanthan

Letters

‘Where We Will Go Now?’

Comment: Voice of Gadchiroli

Note: COP28: Declaration on Climate and Health - Sagar Dhara

The Crux of Palestinian Politics - Ben Judah

Impact of Militarisation on Climate Change - Arun Mitra

Feminist Climate Justice Approach - UN Women

Labour Survey Report - Atanu Chakravarty

Yerawada Prison Diary - Joydip Ghosal

Plight of DU Ad-Hoc Teachers - Johanna Deeksha

Mandela 10 Years After His Death - Ashley Montgomery

Letters

Article 370 is Dead

Comment: COP 28: ‘A Litany of Loopholes’

Note: Khurram Parvez - Gursimran Kaur Bakshi

Dress Rehearsal for 2024? - Ram Puniyani

The Children of Gaza - Richard Hall & Ariana Baio

Recalling Central Assembly Bombing - Dipankar Bhattacharya

Why Isn’t the World Listening? - Bharat Dogra

Ecology and the Entropy Law - Saral Sarkar

Of War and Class War - Tridni-valka

Letters

10 Years of BRI

Comment: Nepalis in Russian Army

Note: Lick Your Wounds - Farooque Chowdhury

Why Unemployment Keeps Rising in India - Amit Bhaduri

Towards a Demographic Catastrophe? - Bruno Kern, Saral Sarkar & Ernst Schriefl

‘Bhopal’: Continuing Health Nightmare - Nicholas Muller

‘The Group of Four’ - Julio Ribeiro

Making the ‘Deaf Hear’ - Ram Puniyani

Subhas–An Argumentative Person - Vir Bharat Talwar

Criminal Tribes and Denotified Tribes - B K Lodhi

Letters

Old Wine, New Bottle

Comment: From Manipur to Mumbai

Note: Mao Zedong 130 - Sylvie Zhuangin

Marx on Liberation of the Arab People - Marcello Musto

Towards a Presidential Tyranny? - Dipankar Bhattacharya

‘Gaddar–the Communist Guerrilla’ - K Y Ratnam

John Pilger is No More - Al Jazeera Staff

Pilger On Russia And China

Gambhira–the Martyr of Champaran - Arup Kumar Sen

How to Save Media Freedom - Newsclick

Left Apologias for Hamas - Franklin Dmitryev

Letters

Farewell to Arms?

Comment: Militarisation of Bastar

Note: Conflict in Middle East - Bharat Dogra

Politicisation of Central Agencies - Ahmed Raza

Cost of Israeli War on Gaza - V Subrahmanyam

A Journalist’s Cry from Gaza - Rana Sabbagh

India and China in the Same Boat - Sagar Dhara

Of ‘Burning Pyres and Mass Graves’ - Joydip Ghosal

Award and Degrees Returned - Sandeep Pandey

Mosque to Temple–A Long Journey - Ram Puniyani

Feudalism beyond the Farmland - Azeefa Fathima

Odisha under Naveen Raj - Bhabani Shankar Nayak

Letters

Vote matters

Comment: The Epidemiological War on Gaza

Note: Areas of Acute Hunger - Bharat Dogra

‘Staying Alive is Luck’ - V Subrahmanyam

Validity of The AI Hysteria - Tamoghna Mitra

A Landmark Judgement - Madhu Bhaduri

Pregnant Bilkis Raped, Her Family Murdered - Kirtivardhan Mishra

Saffron Flag as the Unifying Flag - Shamsul Islam

Subhas is No More - T Vijayendra

‘Born Criminals’ - Mahasweta Devi

Letters

Continuing Conflict

Comment: Money Matters

Note: Survival Issues - B D

Riddles of Ram Temple at Ayodhya - Shamsul Islam

Invisible Workers - Joydip Ghosal

From Marx to Mao - Harsh Thakor

Constitutionalism in the Context of Fascism - Rivera

Living in Harmony with Nature - Bharat Dogra

Revolution Finally Came to Zoila - Alejandra Garcia

Letters

‘Land is Costlier than Gold’

Comment: Refugees Everywhere

Note: Leprosy in India - T Vijayendra

‘Much Ado about Nothing’ - Jayakhosh Chidambaran

Red Hammer and One ShyamSundar Ray - Abhijit Guha

Denying Dignity to Anti-British Rebels - B K Lodhi

Lenin Is Still Not Dead - Harsh Thakor

Women At War - Abdul Basit

More than 50 Million Cases are Pending - Sameer Yasir

Letters

Israel on Trial

Comment: ‘The Paradox of Power’

Note: “Agriculture for Profits” - Bharat Dogra

Ambedkar and Du Bois - MC Staff

Musical Chair in Bihar - Ahmed Raza

76th Anniversary of Gandhiji’s Assassination - Shamsul Islam

The Question of Sovereignty - Prem Singh

China and DRC - Charles Andrews

Ukraine is Losing the War - John Wojcik

Alternative Publishing Space - Asma Hafiz

Letters

Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency

Budget and Confusions - Bharat Dogra

Women Writing Resistance - Sohini Sengupta

Appropriating Icons for Political End - Prem Singh

Bicycle: The Rider is its Engine - Farooque Chowdhury

China and Taiwan - I Mallikarjuna Sharma

Budget 2024 and Sanitation Workers - Ayanabha Banerjee

Violation of Human Rights in India in 2023 - MASUM

Letters

Israel’s March of Genocide

March to Delhi Again - M N Ravunni and Shantol

Samar Sen Memorial Discussion - Sohini Sengupta and Sourav Chattopadhyay

An Illusion of Prosperity - Sunil Ray

Indian Health Budget 2024 - Jayanta Bhattacharya

Scrapping Electoral Bonds Scheme - I Mallikarjuna Sharma

The Return of Agrarian Question - Atanu Chakravarty

Subhas Ganguly–My Life Teacher - Sudipta Bhattacharya

Letters

Farmers Defy Bullets and Pellets

Defaming Protesting Farmers - Prem Singh

The Rise of Neo-Fascism - Arup Baisya

Elimination of Poverty by Measurement - Ashok Nag

Remembering Rabindranath Majumdar - Sabyasachi Chatterjee

Russia’s Tradition of Repression - Sumanta Banerjee

When the Homeless Reclaimed a Building -Bharat Dogra

HAF’s Ram Temple Narrative - Shamsul Islam

Letters

Political Violence in Bengal

PM Awas – Many Questions - Bharat Dogra

Redefining Imperialism - Arup Baisya

Dispatches from a War - Joydip Ghosal

Mockery of Primary School Education - Paran Amitava and Kanika Sharma

Report on Communal Violence - CSSS Team

Nazi Germany, Saffron India -Javed Malick

Bangladeshi Cinema is Coming of Age - Ishita Sengupta

International Women’s Day

‘Save the University of Madras’ - SPCSS-TN

Between Life and Death -Jyoti Punwani

Politics of Unemployment - Yogendra Yadav

ASHA and MDM Workers - Atanu Chakravarty

Memories of ‘MAMA’ - Chandramouli Sengupta

Taiwan: Another Ukraine in the Making? - Ramakrishnan

Pabitra Saha's Paintings - Atanu Basu

A Tale of Prof Nitasha Kaul - Asok Chattopadhyay

Letters

Starvation Haunts Gaza

How to Protect the Planet - Bharat Dogra

Burying Democratic Secular Constitution - Shamsul Islam

Sketch of a Rebel - Mihir Chakraborty

Achin Patua’s 41st Annual Exhibition - Atanu Basu

Fahmida Riaz-the Voice of Resistance - Saif Mahmood

Eco-Socialism or “Green” Capitalism? -Farooque Chowdhury

Letters

CAA, NCR and NPR

UN Combats Islamophobia - Haaretz

The Meaning of Aadhaar De-Activation - Suman Sengupta

A Letter to UIDAI

‘One Nation, One Election’ - Dipankar Bhattacharya

Loneliness and Capitalism - Bhabani Shankar Nayak

Emergency Then and Now -Joydip Ghosal

‘Parks and People’ -Bharat Dogra

The Double-Edged Sword -Jonathan Shamir

Letters

UN Resolution

EB and Corporates - Haaretz

“The Incarcerations” - Harsh Thakor

‘One Nation, One Election’ - Bibhudatta Pradhan

How to Make People Stateless - Atanu Chakravarty

Plight of Denotified Tribes - B K Lodhi

Pro-Modi Films Flood Market -Hannah Ellis-Petersen

‘It’s a Death Zone’ -Taj Ali & Daisy Schofield

Journalists are Killed -Caroline Houck

Letters

War Will Continue

NATO Celebrates 75th Anniversary - Bharat Dogra

It is an Elected Autocracy - Syed Ali Mujtaba

Too Little, Too Late - Atanu Chakravarty

A Painful Tale of Suru Bindhani - Durgaprosad

Veiled Threat to Judiciary - Maitreyi Krishnan & Clifton D’ Rozario

Hindu Mahasabha, not Congress Colluded with Muslim League -Shamsul Islam

Saffronising Sainik Schools -Astha Savyasachi

Swatantraveer Savarkar - Ram Puniyani

Letters

Business As Usual

Defeating a Dictator - Bhabani Shankar Nayak

Karl Liebknecht to Ben Arad - Yorgos Mitralias

In Defence of Prabir Purkayastha - Antonio Martins & others

Riddles Remain Unresolved - Manas Bakshi

The ‘Kerala Story’ - Dr. Kochurani Abraham, Kerala & others

Corruption is Highly Profitable - Arun Kumar

Haran Chandra Chakladar - Abhijit Guha

Drinking Milk With Closed Eyes - Subhash Gatade

Letters

The ‘Colonial Question’ Returns

Revival of Planning Commission - B D

Bring Back Ballot Papers - Sandeep Pandey

Nuclear Winter - Bharat Dogra

‘The Great Nicobar Betrayal’ - Pankaj Sekhsaria

Legal Points Regarding Aadhaar - I Mallikarjuna Sharma

They Are ‘Standing Together’ - Jon Wiener

Misinformation is a Strategy - Bhabani Shankar Nayak

Of Drug Prices and Super Profits - Arun Mitra

Letters

‘Infiltrators'

Hindutva and Ethno-Nationalism - Bhabani Shankar Nayak

‘Muslims Against Partition’ - Shamsul Islam

Columbia Protests Now and in ’68 - Jonah Raskin

Weaponsing Music - Joydip Ghosal

The Conundrum of Elections in India - Maya John & Mudita Singh Kushwaha

Modi’s ‘Make in India’ Didn’t Make Jobs - Anchal Vohra

Israel's War on Healthcare - Taj Ali & Daisy Schofield

Letters

‘There are no Jobs’

‘The Hindu is in Danger’ - John Dayal

A $5 Trillion Economy Soon? - Neeraj Jain

RSS Deceit on Reservation - Shamsul Islam

Kudmis Quest for Scheduled Tribe Status - Shamayita Sen

Territorialisation of Land - Bhabani Shankar Nayak

Millions in Informal Sector are at Risk - Atanu Chakravarty

Wars End in Frozen Conflicts - Bharat Dogra

Letters

‘Bond’ and Business

‘Manipur’–One Year Later - FACAM

‘We are all Opportunists’ - Sumit Bhaduri

The Great Nicobar Project - Sumit Mukherjee

Territorialisation of Space - Bhabani Shankar Nayak

Futility of ‘INDIA’ - Harsh Thakor

October 7 in Historical Perspective - Gilbert Achcar

‘History is Speaking with Gusto’ - JVP

Europe, Russia and NATO - Bharat Dogra

Letters

‘Nothing is Left’

NewsClick Editor on Bail - A J

The Making of a Majoritarian State - Neshat Quaiser

A Kashmiri Muslim Boy’s Journey - Joydip Ghosal

The Sam Pitroda Controversy - Abhijit Guha

The 1974 Railway Strike - Harsh Thakor

‘All Is Not Lost’ - Asis Ranjan Sengupta

Territorialisation of Knowledge - Bhabani Shankar Nayak

The NewsClick Verdict - Bharat Dogra

Letters

A State without Legitimacy

Electronics, Quality of Life and Bicycle - T Vijayendra

Notes from Prison - Gautam Navlakha

School Recruitment Scam in West Bengal - Nityananda Ghosh

NHRC May be Downgraded to ‘B’ Status - Aritra Bhattacharya

Hindus in Danger - Ram Puniyani

Misleading Claims, Mischievous Politics - Dipankar Bhattacharya

UN Resolution–One Step Forward - Farnaz Fassihi

The EVM-VVPAT Judgement - Sandeep Pandey

Letters

Growing Democratic Deficit

NATO is at War against Russia - Farooque Chowdhury

Rethinking Marxism - Arup Kumar Sen

The Beginning of the End for Modi Raj? - Meneka Doshi

Minority Status: A Hoax? - Ardhendu Banerjee

WHO and Its Transformatory Journey - Jayanta Bhattacharya

Narendra Modi and ‘God Complex’ - Ram Puniyani

Muslim Vote, Hindu Vote - Nilofar Suhrawardy

Merchants of Death Matter - Bharat Dogra

Modi is on the Move

Grieving the Loss of Sher Singh - Sanjeev Kumar

Reclaiming Democratic Space - T Navin

Promises and Counter Promises - Neshat Quaiser

End of Navin Raj in Odisha - Bhabani Shankar Nayak

Gandhi Film - Ram Puniyani

Protests in PoK - Iftikhar Gilani

Cold Facts that Changed Indian History...! - Robert Clements

Why Modi Underperformed - Ravi Agrawal

Letters