Environmentalists warn of irreversible damage to Western Ghats and Lion-Tailed Macaque habitat; urge Union and Karnataka governments to scrap the project. Groundxero | October 24, 2025 A coalition of environmental groups, scientists, and local communities has sounded a stark warning over Karnataka’s proposed 2000 MW Sharavathy Pumped Storage Project (PSP), calling it an ecological […]
The recent US airstrikes in the Caribbean and military threats against Venezuela are a continuation of decades (or even centuries) of US policy on the region, not a departure from it. By Manolo De Los Santos Over the last several weeks, Washington has escalated threats and hostilities against Venezuela, and US President Donald Trump openly […]
Addressing the root of economic systems that oppress Americans is exactly what the Democratic Party leadership, dependent on big corporate donors, has rigorously refused to do. If they continue this refusal, things will only get worse. By Norman Solomon TomDispatch The human condition includes a vast array of unavoidable misfortunes. But what about […]
In this part III & IV of the reportage; Subha Protim Roy Chowdhury shares his experience while visiting communal violence affected areas in Basirhat and Asansol in West Bengal. By Subha Protim Roy Chowdhury Groundxero | Oct 20, 2025 III. It was in the year 2017. Two months after the communal riots in Basirhat6, we […]
The Palestinians have resisted colonisation for 75 years, and have now fought back another 2 years of outright genocide. With their bodies, they have managed to stall one of the world’s most powerful military machines; rally support from around the world; and weaken imperialism itself in the process. Their struggle is far from over. […]
HRF is calling on both the State and Union governments to immediately halt all land acquisition and clearance processes related to the project. They demand full public disclosure of all documents including MOUs, power and water allocation agreements, compensation frameworks and environmental impact reports. Groundxero | October 18, 2025 The Human Rights Forum (HRF) has […]
SKM calls the Draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2025, an assault on federalism and people’s right to affordable power, and announced plans to coordinate with electricity workers’ unions to resist what it termed as “corporate capture of the power sector.” New Delhi | October 18, 2025 Groundxero The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) has sharply condemned […]
Maleka from an Afghan refugee camp in Delhi, and Anwara, Murshida, Tamanna, Ramaiya, Saba, Arifa in a riot victims shelter camp in Uttar Pradesh — each came from a different background. Their perspectives are different, but they face the same reality of insecurity and vulnerability. By Subha Protim Roy Chowdhury Groundxero | Oct 17, 2025 I. […]
While Palestinian blood flows through the streets of Rafah and Khan Yunis, Arab leaders meet in luxurious summits to issue vague statements of “concern” and empty “indignation”. No economic sanctions against “Israel”, no oil embargo, no diplomatic rupture. By Sayid Marcos Tenorio Groundxero | Oct 17, 2025 There is a tragic irony in the Palestinian genocide: […]
Has the defeat of the Naxal movement translated into victory for Indian farmers? For workers? For Adivasi women? No. This is a victory for capitalists; it is a victory for those who impoverish India by plundering its water, forests, and land. By Himanshu Kumar Groundxero | Oct 17, 2025 Today, in the pink cold of […]
A mathematician’s concerns on the assault on education, reason, and freedom in India By Oorna Groundxero | Oct 16, 2025 In The 14 Characteristics of Fascism, political scientist Lawrence Britt observed that “fascist nations tend to promote and to exalt hostility to higher education and academia.” History proves him right. In the 20th century, […]
A report of the TISS students’ meeting to commemorate Prof GN Saibaba Oct 15, 2025 by freespeechcollective The price of political engagement and learning today* Recording the sequence of events and observations on the current events unfolding in TISS, Mumbai, from students’ perspective What is the price of political engagement and learning […]
The young Kerala victim’s posthumous disclosure must become a catalyst for change—not another tragedy we mourn and forget. Tinku Khanna Groundxero | Oct 15, 2025 The recent death by suicide of a 26-year-old IT professional from Kerala, who alleged in a scheduled Instagram post that he was sexually abused as a child by members of […]
Prof. G.N. Saibaba memorial lecture on the occasion of his death anniversary on 12th October 2025 was held at HKS Surjeet Bhawan in New Delhi. Groundxero | Oct 13, 2025 G.N. Saibaba (1967 – 12 October 2024) was an Indian scholar, writer and human rights activist from Amalapuram, Andhra Pradesh. He constantly raised his voice for the […]
There will be no peace in Gaza. Only the temporary absence of war. CHRIS HEDGES OCT 11, 2025 There is no shortage of failed peace plans in occupied Palestine, all of them incorporating detailed phases and timelines, going back to the presidency of Jimmy Carter. They end the same way. Israel gets what […]
বিপর্যয় এলে কী হবে সেই আলোচনার চাইতে অনেক বেশি জরুরি বিপর্যয় আটকানো। যে কারণে বিপর্যয় ঘটতে পারে, ঘটছে, তার প্রতিকার। তিথি রায় Groundxero | Oct 09, 2025 কাশ্মীর, হিমাচল, উত্তরাখান্ড, উত্তরবঙ্গ – গোটা হিমালয় জুড়ে বিধ্বংসী বন্যা ও ধস নামার ঘটনা ঘটে চলেছে পালা করে। ধর্মীয় বিশ্বাসে, হিমালয়ে বসবাস ঈশ্বরের। এ জমানায়, পুঁজি-বাজার-মুনাফাকেই আমরা ব্রহ্মা-বিষ্ণু-মহেশ্বরের মত […]
All this killing, maiming, starving, orphaning, and forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian minors has wrought what one mother there called the “complete psychological destruction” of Gaza’s children. A December 2024 study found that nearly all children in Gaza believed their deaths were imminent—and nearly half of them wanted to die. By BRET WILKINS Oct 08, […]
The recent expansion of detention and deportations of immigrants reflects an accelerated criminalisation and punishment of non-citizens, tied to a rising authoritarianism across purportedly liberal Western countries. Andonea Jon Dickson, Cetta Mainwaring and Thom Tyerman Under President Donald Trump, the United States is expanding its efforts to detain and deport non-citizens at an alarming rate. […]
The Samyukt Kisan Morch (SKM) – a platform of farmer unions across the country – has warned of a massive protest if the Narendra Modi led Union government surrender to the USA and demanded exclusion of agriculture and allied sectors from the Free Trade Agreements and WTO. Groundxero | Oct 08, 2025 The National Council […]
I write to say: we are not just numbers in the news; we are human beings who dream, suffer, and resist. Maryam Al-Nimr Groundxero | Oct 08, 2025 I am Maryam Al-Nimr, a student and citizen of Gaza, writing on behalf of every Palestinian seeking safety, freedom, and humanity. In Gaza, the day doesn’t […]
দুর্গাপুজোকে কেন্দ্র করে যদি আজ বাঙালি ধর্মনিরপেক্ষ সংস্কৃতি ভিত্তিক পরিচয় তুলে ধরে, তাহলে ইতিহাসে ফিরে তাকালেই বোঝা যায় কীভাবে সাম্প্রদায়িক পরিচয়ের পরিপ্রেক্ষিতেই গড়ে উঠেছিল দুর্গা পূজোর ইতিহাস। সোহিনী সাহা Groundxero | Oct 08, 2025 বাঙালি ও সাম্প্রদায়িকতার ইতিহাস আলোচনার বিষয়ে হয়ে দাঁড়িয়েছিল কিছু দিন আগেই। ১৯৪৬ এর সাম্প্রদায়িক সংঘর্ষে বাঙালির ভূমিকাকে কেন্দ্র করে উঠেছিল তর্ক। […]
বৃহৎ পুঁজির লাভের জন্য ড্যাম তৈরি হচ্ছে, পাহাড় ফুঁড়ে রেলপথ হচ্ছে। এই আগ্রাসনের বিরুদ্ধে লড়াই হতে হবে বহুস্তরীয়। শুভদীপ মৈত্র “কোই গ্যারান্টি নেহি হ্যায়, বিশ পঁচ্চিশ মিনিট কি বারিষমে সব কুছ রুক যা সকতা হ্যায়…” দার্জিলিং-এর একটা ছোট্ট কন্টিনেন্টাল ব্রেকফাস্টের দোকান – ‘সোনাম’স কিচেন’, সেখানে বসে বসে শুনছিলাম বছর দেড়েক আগের বসন্তকালে। কথা […]
Ironically, while the government claims it has no land to distribute to the landless, it is willing to lease thousands of acres virtually free to one of India’s largest conglomerates. The betrayal could not be starker and more brazen. Groundxero | Oct 03, 2025 The decision to lease 1,050 acres of land in Pirpainti, Bhagalpur […]
What Trump and Netanyahu have engineered is not just a cynical maneuver, but the continuation of a deeper structure of thought: the colonial idea that the empire knows best, that natives cannot govern themselves, that “peace” can only be conferred by those who hold power. Arkadeep Goswami Introduction: The Spectacle of Peace […]
The latest wave of recognitions of Palestine is not a genuine peace initiative but rather an attempt to whitewash genocide. By Biljana Vankovska The Palestinian question predates the United Nations, which is now celebrating its 80th anniversary. The roots of the Palestinian conflict lie in the deep wounds and scars inflicted across the Middle […]
Trump’s newest presidential memoranda criminalizes critics of empire, capitalism, Christian nationalism, abuses by the state and those who fight racism and gender discrimination. CHRIS HEDGES SEP 29, 2025 Fascists, historically, are surprisingly candid about the world they intend to create. Those they target, despite this transparency, are surprisingly obtuse about what is coming. […]
রাষ্ট্রদ্রোহীর তকমা দিয়ে এই পরিবেশকর্মীকে গ্রেফতার করা হয়েছে। একদা কেন্দ্রীয় সরকারের ‘ব্যবহারযোগ্য’ ব্যক্তি এখন হয়ে পড়েছেন দেশদ্রোহী! রাষ্ট্রীয় নিরাপত্তা লঙ্ঘনকারী! দেবোপম গঙ্গোপাধ্যায় যে সময়ে এই লেখা, সেই মুহূর্তে বাংলা তথা ভারতবাসীর কাছে নতুন করে জানানোর কিছু নেই – লাদাখ এখন শিরোনামে। নতুন করে জানানোর কিছু নেই সোনাম ওয়াংচুক কে, তাঁর পরিচয় কী, লাদাখে […]
Should Netanyahu’s actions succeed in normalizing genocide in the 21st century, this horrific crime could become a sanctioned political strategy for tyrants and regimes worldwide. By RAMZY BAROUD Sep 27, 2025 Common Dreams Every day brings new indictments for Israel. The early accusations of genocide by South Africa are now quickly becoming an accepted legal definition […]
NAPM held the Union government accountable for lives lost to police bullets in Ladakh, as a result of brutal State response to a democratic struggle and turning the rightful demand for Sixth schedule and statehood as ‘anti-national’. Groundxero | Sep 27, 2025 The National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) has strongly condemned the arrest of […]
Colonial reclamation practices, coupled with postcolonial urban development, treated wetlands as wastelands to be controlled and commodified, ignoring their vital ecological significance. By Salini Saha In the early hours of 23rd September 2025, a few hours of very intense rainfall submerged large parts of Kolkata. Streets turned into rivers, neighbourhoods were waterlogged for days […]
The Ganges is more than a river. It is a lifeline, a sacred symbol, and a cornerstone of South Asian civilisation. But it is drying faster than ever before, and the consequences of inaction are unthinkable. Mehebub Sahana, University of Manchester The Ganges, a lifeline for hundreds of millions across South Asia, is […]
Western recognition of Palestine may have been a symbolic victory, but in the absence of enforcement, it changes nothing on the ground. Strongmen like Trump ensure that such gestures remain hollow, easily dismissed, and politically inert. Ronny P Sasmita Donald Trump’s 23 September speech at the United Nations General Assembly was never going […]
As a scholar of media and democracy, I see the spread of the Jolly Roger of the Straw Hats Pirates – which has gone from manga pages to protest squares – as an example of how Gen Z is reshaping the cultural vocabulary of dissent. Nuurrianti Jalli, Oklahoma State University From Paris and […]
জীবন-জীবিকা নিয়ে একদিকে চরম অনিশ্চয়তা, অন্যদিকে নিজেদের ভাষা ও জাতিসত্তা নিয়ে পরিচিতির উপর নেমে আসা প্রাণঘাতী আক্রমণ ও বাংলাদেশে পুশ ব্যাক-এর আতঙ্কে অনেকেই স্পষ্টত দিশাহারা। সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তীর রিপোর্ট উৎসবের মরশুম শুরু হয়ে গেছে। বাড়ি ফিরছেন প্রবাসে কাজেকর্মে, পড়াশোনায় ব্যস্ত থাকা মানুষজন। কিন্তু সব ফেরা এক হয় না। যেমন হয় না, হচ্ছে না পশ্চিমবঙ্গের […]
Chomsky stands as a model of putting a progressive face on collaboration with state power. Shyamoli Jana It is hard to come up with a name other than Noam Chomsky who has been praised as much for his ‘anti-establishment’ stances – by establishment outlets themselves. A superstar academic who, along with a fellow […]
This is the first time in Brazil’s long history of political instability that a coup attempt has led to a conviction. Marieke Riethof, University of Liverpool Four out of five members of Brazil’s supreme court have voted to convictthe former president, Jair Bolsonaro, for plotting a military coup after losing the 2022 election […]
The working class will not remain silent in the face of the atrocities committed by the Israeli state. Groundxero | Sep 14, 2025 The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), representing over 110 million workers in 134 countries, has called on workers around the world, to intensify their solidarity this week (15-22 September, 2025) with demonstrations, […]
For the past two years, Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank have continued Indigenous practices in the face of deprivation and foreign occupation. Samar Awaad Sep 12, 2025 Food—and the denial of it—has come into sharp focus with the Israeli occupation’s mass starvation and genocide in Gaza and the increasing violence against Palestinians in […]
নানান জেলা থেকে প্রায় ২০০০ অস্থায়ী কর্মী এদিনের মিছিল ও জমায়েতে যোগদান করেন। মিছিলের মাঝপথে তুমুল বৃষ্টিতেও মিছিল আটকায়নি। স্থায়ীকরণের দাবিতে মুষল্ধারায় বৃষ্টি মাথায় নিয়েই কলকাতার রাজপথ স্লোগানে মুখরিত হয়ে ওঠে। সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তীর রির্পোট ব্যাঙ্কের শাখায় উপভোক্তা ও কাউন্টার-এর কর্মীর মধ্যে বাদানুবাদ প্রায় হাতাহাতির পর্যায়ে পৌঁছায়। রক্ষী এসে উপভোক্তাকে ব্যাঙ্ক থেকে বের কোরে […]
Martyrs are used by messianic movements to sanctify violence. To show any mercy or understanding toward the enemy is to betray the martyr and the cause the martyr died defending. CHRIS HEDGES SEP 12, 2025 The assassination of Charlie Kirk presages a new, deadly stage in the disintegration of a fractious and highly […]