Contemporary Protest Music: Rahul Ram at TEDx Mehrauli Rahul N Ram was born in Delhi in 1963. His personal acquaintance with protest music started off in his childhood with songs of the Indian People’s Theatre Association. He first encountered contemporary protest music during a trip to Garhwal in 1980 with songs sung by the Chipko Andolan. He heard several international protest songs during his years … Continue reading Contemporary Protest Music: Rahul Ram
Soni Sori and Linga Kodopi have been granted bail by Supreme Court today. Linga Kodopi is an Adivasi journalist. He was thrown in a dungeon of a Chhattisgarh prison. To force him to become a police spy, Chhattisgarh police officials had locked him up for forty days in a Police station toilet. However, Linga Kodopi’s aunt Soni Sori was able to free … Continue reading Who are Soni Sori and Linga Kodopi?
Across the country, the common wealth of the people, like land and water, is being sold off to big capital, leading to environmental degradation and loss of livelihoods for communities. By DIVYA TRIVEDI THE COMMONS ARE UP FOR GRABS. The shared wealth of communities created and enjoyed by generations, the commons include the wind, water, resources below and above the earth, the grass, the leaves … Continue reading Natural resources Vanishing Commons
Journalists of Bastar are often exposed to serious security threats by Maoists who want to release a statement or by the police who want to gather information Sometime in the early summer of 2013, while preparing for a motorbike ride in the forests of Bastar, the State administration came up with a request to this correspondent — to mediate with left-wing rebels to recover the … Continue reading Whose journalism is it anyway? – Suvojit Bagchi
NAPM demands legal recognition of the natural right to life and love of lakhs of gender diverse individuals New Delhi, December 14 : As lakhs of individuals and groups across the country, celebrated the 4th anniversary of the historical judgement by Justice (Retd). A.P. Shah and Justice (Retd). Muralidharan of the Delhi High Court, recognizing the natural right to life and life of gender diverse … Continue reading Apex Court verdict re-criminalizing consensual same sex relationships unconstitutional and inhuman
In the second of a three-part series, Suvojit Bagchi meets the ‘eyes and ears’ of the Maoist and state militias. During my stay in Dandakaranya’s Maoist-dominated areas that lasted five weeks, I saw hundreds of young boys and girls with staleness in their eyes and an indifferent demeanour. One of them, Suklu, a man in his early 20s, accompanied me to Mettagaon, a village dominated … Continue reading ‘I don’t know how many Naxals I’ve killed’ – Suvojit Bagchi
After walking for eight hours in a forest that possibly had more hillocks and rivulets than trees, without any long pause, by early evening we entered a narrow barren table of land bounded on either side by two separate ridges. At the far end stood a few blue and yellow tents. Somji, one of the men who had met me at the edge of the … Continue reading 34 days with Maoists inside the forest (Part 1)- Suvojit Bagchi
At least 16 Muria Gond tribals have been arrested in the last 48 hours in Bijapur district of south Chhattisgarh for allegedly acting as cultural activists of the outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoist). The arrested alleged activists are aged between 18 and 22 years and were influencing the locals against the administration through song and dance, a release from Bijapur police said. Local court … Continue reading 16 alleged Maoist cultural wing activists arrested – Suvojit Bagchi
आज हम सब जानते हैं की राक्षस असुर और दानव आदिवासी दलित और भारत के मूल निवासी थे । जिन्हें आर्यों ने मारा था। लेकिन आपको क्या बताया गया है ? यही ना कि राक्षसों, दानवों और असुरों को इसलिए मारा गया क्योंकि वो काले होते थे , उनके सींग होते थे , उनके बड़े बड़े दांत होते थे। वो क्रूर होते थे , वो … Continue reading राक्षस – Himanshu Kumar
The Chhattisgarh government has asked for an unprecedented 1,500 companies of central paramilitary force, for the forthcoming polls in addition to the existing battalions in Maoist-controlled tribal districts of South Chhattisgarh. At least half of the additional forces will be placed in South Chhattisgarh, senior officials in the State administration told The Hindu. The State asked for nearly 860 companies during the last Assembly election, … Continue reading Democracy Under The Gun In Chattisgarh – Suvojit Bagchi
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