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Scrap the Areva Deal: Jaitapur Solidarity Committee
The National Committee in Solidarity with Jaitapur Struggle had written to the PM on August, 2012 that the costly imported Areva reactors would...
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Reclaim the Night on a Bus Ride
Perhaps never before did people who take the last bus home seem so joyful and full of life as the group that boarded the last buses on the night of 7...
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Culture of Censorship in Manipuri Cinema
In the past week, Kamal Hassan’s Vishwaroopam apparently joined the long list of Indian films which have induced either social or political...
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MALI : Analysis by Samir Amin
I am one of those who out of principle condemn all military interventions by Western powers in the countries of the South, these interventions being...
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“There is no political will to work towards gender justice”
In the backdrop of the contradictions between Justice Verma report and Union Government’s ordinance, Newsclick talks to documentary filmmaker...
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Afzal Guru's Execution: A New Low for the Indian State
The execution of Afzal Guru by the Indian state as well as the manner in which it was done, must rank as one of its most shameful acts. That death...
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Open Letter to Delhi Police and Other Authorities Demanding...
We, the undersigned individuals and organizations, are shocked by the reports of sexual harassment and sexual violence perpetrated by the police (in...
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Masters of the Internet
The geopolitics of the Internet broke open during the first half of December at an international conference in Dubai convened by the International...
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Is the World Social Forum of Use for Popular Struggles?
Are the Social Forum Formulas Adequate to that Effect?
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The Poet and Politician: Who was Chokri Belaid?
The assassination of the highly respected opposition figure Chokri Belaid has thrown Tunisia into turmoil and could mark a turning point in...
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The Riddles of Ashis Nandy
“The rearing and guiding of a civilization must depend upon its intellectual class.”B. R. Ambedkar, Ranade, Gandhi and Jinnah, 1943....
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Minamata Convention on Mercury Control
More than 2000 people died and over 10,000 were affected by industrial pollution during the 1950s and 60s in and around the coastal Japanese town of...
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Debate on Zero Dark Thirty
“Zero Dark Thirty”, the American film nominated for the Oscars this year, is based on the American operation to hunt down and kill Osama...
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Disagreeing With Samir on Mali
Samir's Amin has come out with a defence of French intervention in Mali, which has surprised many of his admirers and friends.
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Op-Ed: Women, Rape, and Lack of Toilets
In the aftermath of the gruesome gang rape and murder of the 23-year-old physiotherapist in New Delhi, the Government of India set up a committee...