Beware the Gujarat Model in India’s Covid-19 Recovery
Modi’s Gujarat reconstruction model, combining muscular Hindu nationalism with hi-tech modernity and neoliberal privatized development, threatens India’s COVID recovery.
Kamala Harris’s “American Journey”: Caste, Global Mobility & State Power
As the Democratic VP nominee Kamala Harris is celebrated by South Asian communities, Kohli reflects on intertwined caste, class and imperial forces fueling her ascent to global power.
Spaces of Resistance: From Indian Coffee House to Tihar Jail
With an alarming rise in political prisoners in BJPs India, a reflection on the historic use of prisons and other urban spaces in resisting authoritarianism.
Pakistan’s First Climate Prisoners: Baba Jan & Affectees of the Attabad Disaster
Baba Jan and his comrades, Pakistan’s first climate prisoners, have led the charge for climate justice, ecological protection, and self-determination for over a decade.
The Discolouration of “Green Growth” in Pakistan
As “Green Growth” gains popularity among a range of political actors, a critique of the agenda’s growing currency in Pakistan and its worrying alliance with capitalist “development”.
Green, Green Rocky Road: The Perils of Greenwashing Pakistan
By rendering it a “technical problem”, Pakistan’s “greening” initiatives only exacerbate the country’s environmental crisis.
COVID-19 and Disaster Capitalism in India
India’s COVID-19 pandemic has become an opportunity for the BJP government to unleash privatization, implement neoliberal policies, and crush dissent.
More than an Assassin: Revisiting Shaheed Udham Singh on His 80th Martyrdom Day
Udham Singh is widely revered for assassinating Michael O’Dwyer in order to avenge the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh. But by focusing solely on this deed, we obscure the wider politics that shaped it.
Tagore Street, Tel Aviv: Against Normalizing Bangladeshi—Israeli relations
The normalization of the Israeli apartheid-state by liberal Bangladeshis calls for a revival of revolutionary solidarities and a South Asian politics that champions the Palestinian cause.
Pollution and Patriarchy in Tribal India
In tribal India, violence against the environment and women are connected and part of the country’s dispossession-driven capitalism.
There are No Win-Win Solutions
Indian conglomerates rushing to invest in renewable energy obscure dirtier practices of ecological damage and labour injustice.
The Romance of Revolution in Emergency-Era Delhi
As many today struggle against an undeclared BJP-led Emergency in India, a reflection on the fight against Indira Gandhi’s Emergency — and the role of love.