Tag: democratic protest

Riot police fire teargas as 250,000 take part in schools protests across France

Jon Henley in Paris Police have fired teargas at ⁠protesters as more than 250,000 pupils, teachers and parents demonstrated across France on the biggest day yet of a campaign for better high school conditions that has been marred by often violent clashes with police. The French prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, said at least 215 teenagers… Read More Riot police fire teargas as 250,000 take part in schools protests across France

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Striking Back

The historic wave of labour unrest that swept India Zaen Alkazi {ONE} MORNINGS ARE TYPICALLY RUSHED at Hosiery Complex NOIDA, a prominent industrial hub in Uttar Pradesh. In the urban village of Yakubpur, thousands of migrant workers wake up in small and windowless rooms, rented from local Gurjar farmers, and get ready for work. They… Read More Striking Back

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‘We want justice’: series of rapes trigger mass protests at Indian universities

Women say nothing has changed since Delhi’s infamous Nirbhaya bus rape case 14 years ago Student activists protest against alleged gang rapes. Photograph: Rajat Gupta/EPA DU की लड़कियों के ये नारे क्यों हैं इतने VIRAL ? Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Aakash Hassan in Delhi The posters, just like the women holding them, were taking no prisoners.… Read More ‘We want justice’: series of rapes trigger mass protests at Indian universities

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta: Election Commission and Court make it harder, not easier, to believe in independent institutions

But think of the implications of this dynamic. It is a way of saying that the rot in the system does not begin and end in politics; it saturates a whole elite and perhaps even a generation of voters and public servants Rarely in the annals of Indian constitutional history have two key institutions, the… Read More Pratap Bhanu Mehta: Election Commission and Court make it harder, not easier, to believe in independent institutions

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Gandhi Jayanti Keynote Address 2026: GenZ’s Gandhi, by Ashutosh Ranka

++++++++++++++++++++ The Oceanic Circle: Talk on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s 155th birthday ગાંધીજીનું સમુદ્રી વર્તુળ गांधी का समुद्री वर्तुल Domination and Chaos: India’s radical conservatism Treason of the Intellectuals So history didn’t end after all Julien Benda: Our age is the age of the intellectual organization of political hatreds Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann – Repetition and rupture: Reinhart Koselleck, theorist of history… Read More Gandhi Jayanti Keynote Address 2026: GenZ’s Gandhi, by Ashutosh Ranka

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Ashutosh Ranka on CJP Detentions, Assam Plans, Mumbai Agitation and ECI Row

LIVE: Ashutosh Ranka Assam से रिहा होते Himanta Biswa Sarma पर फायर, बोले- कॉकरोचों से डर गए CM| CJP Ashutosh Ranka on CJP Detentions, Assam Plans, Mumbai Agitation and ECI Row CJP Co-Founder Ashutosh Ranka speaks from Guwahati on the detention of CJP volunteers, Abhijeet Dipke’s Assam visit, and the organisation’s plans for Assam and… Read More Ashutosh Ranka on CJP Detentions, Assam Plans, Mumbai Agitation and ECI Row

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Mitali Saran: Power and the nothingburger

Halfway through 2024 the world got to an unspeakable, unwritable place. Israel’s orgiastic genocide of the Palestinians. Malignant capitalism. Murderous misogyny. Poisoned politics. It was literally beyond words. The ethical bankruptcy of power everywhere short-circuited my vocabulary into a charred and smoking ruin. Since I process dark, smelly feelings by articulating them, wordlessness only made… Read More Mitali Saran: Power and the nothingburger

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Indore laughter and ECI leaks are signs of breaches in Narendra Modi’s fortress

Humour and knowledge are the two great hopes of civilisation: Konrad Lorenz Bharat Bhushan The Narendra Modi regime, carefully constructed as an unassailable fortress of absolute power, has suddenly begun to look permeable. Two new developments challenge the desired image of seamless centralisation. One is the weakening of social prohibitions against mocking Modi in public,… Read More Indore laughter and ECI leaks are signs of breaches in Narendra Modi’s fortress

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