“দলিত ও ‘পিছড়ে বর্গ’-এর ‘বিহারী’রা ভোটাধিকারটা অর্জন করেছেন বহু প্রজন্মের ঘাম-রক্তের বিনিময়ে। ফলে সে অধিকার তাঁরা একটা কলমের খোঁচায় চলে যেতে দেবেন না। প্রবল প্রতিরোধ হবে। এবং সত্যি কথা বলতে কি বিহার সেই প্রতিরোধ করে দেখাচ্ছে।” পাটনায় গান্ধী ময়দানে ১ সেপ্টেম্বর ইন্ডিয়া জোটের ভোটার অধিকার যাত্রার পরিসমাপ্তি জমায়েত অংশ নওয়ার অভিজ্ঞতা লিখলেন মানস ঘোষ। রাত্রি প্রায় সাড়ে দশটায় ৩১শে […]
Nepal’s youth uprising is part of a broader pattern of Gen Z revolts across the postcolonial world. These uprisings are born of genuine frustration at corruption, unemployment, authoritarianism, and betrayal. Yet they also expose the fragility of protest without politics, the dangers of depoliticization, and the ever-present threat of co-option by imperialist and regional powers. […]
“We pledge not to screen films, appear at or otherwise work with Israeli film institutions—including festivals, cinemas, broadcasters and production companies—that are implicated* in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people,” declared the filmmakers, actors, and film industry workers. Groundxero | Sep 10, 2025 In a historic action, Oscar, BAFTA, Emmy, Cannes, Berlin, Venice, César, […]
The genocide in Gaza has exposed the weaponization of the Holocaust as a vehicle not to prevent genocide, but to perpetuate it, not to examine the past, but to manipulate the present. Chris Hedges Sep 10, 2025 Nearly all Holocaust scholars, who see in any criticism of Israel a betrayal of the Holocaust, […]
By Scott Lucas, University College Dublin Israel launched an unprecedented airstrike on the Qatari capital of Doha on September 9, the first time it has directly attacked a Gulf state. The “precision strike”, as Israel has called it, targeted a building in which Hamas officials were reportedly discussing a peace proposal brokered by the […]
The hosting of Smotrich by New Delhi is not simply a diplomatic faux pas. It is a deliberate act that aligns India’s domestic trajectory of majoritarian authoritarianism with Israel’s colonial occupation. Arkadeep Goswami Groundxero | Sep 9, 2025 On 8 September 2025, New Delhi became the stage for a moment of profound moral abdication. India’s […]
The selective targeting of public representatives, particularly from marginalized backgrounds, under sweeping security laws like the PSA casts a long shadow over the claims of “normalcy” and democratic restoration in the region. By Ishtiaq Hussain Groundxero | Sep 9, 2025 The already fragile democratic system in Jammu and Kashmir, deeply embedded within centrally controlled frameworks, […]
In this age of AI, there is an effort to separate teachers from the act and practice of teaching itself by reducing them to human objects in classrooms. Sohini Saha Groundxero | Sep 8, 2025 With an emerging market of AI and a push simultaneously towards making “classrooms” AI equipped, a rising debate has centered […]
In those hours, religion, politics, and borders faded. What remained was a quiet, unwavering solidarity with the land and those who live by it. By Jaspreet Kaur Groundxero | Sep 8, 2025 A couple of weeks ago, when the Ravi River overflowed and unleashed devastation, the pain was felt equally on both sides of the border. […]
The protests are a genuine outburst of long-simmering grievances against the political elite, guided by grassroots civil society organisations. Tim Lindsey, The University of Melbourne For many Indonesians, the violent riots currently wracking Jakarta and other cities across the archipelago are eerily reminiscent of the riots of 1998 that accompanied the fall of […]
The open letter by the farmers said, “… with unending hypocrisy, your government is succumbing to imperialist US pressures and putting India’s sovereignty at stake,” and instead of building a vibrant domestic economy ensuring enhanced purchasing power of the working people through “agriculture led development under the aegis of the state,” the government is surrendering […]
Beyond spectacles of formulaic festivities, Tij Raja’s children have taught me that the will to resist oppression and fight for one’s rights is more contagious than the fear invoked by the oppressor. Srijan Dutta Groundxero | Sep 3, 2025 A week before India’s 79th Independence Day, this year’s 9 August marked the 30th anniversary of […]
Addressing the rape-culture through a feminist lens would allow the survivors to breathe and the women to lead the bekhwaaf azaadi. Pritha Sarkar Recently, a gang-rape incident in Puri shook the states of West Bengal and Odisha. However, soon, there were the same questions: “What was the girl wearing? Why was she with […]
The decision by the West Bengal Urdu Academy to postpone Javed Akhtar’s program under religious pressure is yet another blow that deserves lamentation. It undermines the Academy’s credibility and its stated purpose: to promote and preserve the Urdu language. This surrender to the religious bodies represents a failure of institutional responsibility, which is the norm […]
The landless Dalits in villages of Punjab, for the past decade are mobilizing under ZPSC (Zameen Prapti Sangharsh Committee) to assert and claim their right to ownership of land. They are not only asserting their legal right to get Panchayati common land on lease but are also demanding distribution of the surplus land beyond the […]
“We believe that it is our responsibility to extend solidarity and support to those facing violence and dispossession in whatever way we can. The successful petition to suspend Israel from the IOAA is a small step in that direction,” wrote two of the signatories to the petition. Groundxero | Sep 1, 2025 Hundreds of […]
Western reporters are full partners in the genocide. They amplify Israeli lies, which they know are lies, betraying Palestinian colleagues who are slandered, targeted and killed by Israel. CHRIS HEDGES 31 Aug, 2025 There are two types of war correspondents. The first type does not attend press conferences. They do not beg generals […]
Large-scale, corporate-run, and heavily subsidized dairy production system of the US could devastate India’s marginal farmer-led dairy industry. Debasis Mithiya India and the United States are locked in a tense standoff over tariffs on agricultural and dairy products. To protect its domestic market, India has imposed high tariffs on import of specific goods, […]
“যেভাবে আমার ভিডিও করছিল, আমি যদি স্বীকার করতাম আমি বাংলাদেশী, তাহলে আমাকেও উঠায়ে ফালায়ে দিত বাংলাদেশে,” শীতলকুচির ২২ বছর বয়সী পরিযায়ী শ্রমিক মোমেন মিঁঞা। সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তী “পাও দিয়ে, হাত দিয়ে, প্লাস্টিকের পাইপ দিয়ে মারছিল। হাতে, ঠ্যাং, পেটে ব্যথা ছিল। এখন মাথায়। ডাক্তার এখন তো ওষুধ দিয়েছে। শিলিগুড়িতে দেখাতে বলছে আরো। ব্লাডের জমাট যদি না […]
নৃশংতার জয়োল্লাসের বাইরে গিয়ে ফ্যাসিবাদ-বিরোধী রাজনৈতিক সংস্কৃতি ও নন্দনতত্ত্ব নির্মাণ করতে না পারলে, কোনোদিনই ওদের বিরুদ্ধে আমাদের প্রতিবাদ প্রতিরোধ জমাট বাঁধবে না। নন্দিনী ধর গত ৩১শে জুলাই, ২০২৫ সালে, একটি খবর ছড়িয়ে পড়ে সামাজিক গণমাধ্যমে। পশ্চিম বর্ধমান তথা দুর্গাপুর অঞ্চলে হিন্দুত্ববাদী গো-রক্ষকদের হাতে নিগৃহীত হয়েছেন দুই মুসলমান গরু ব্যবসায়ী বৃদ্ধ ও তাঁদের সহযোগীরা। […]
“সরকারের তো এ বিষয়ে কোনো সদিচ্ছা নেই। … একমাত্র আন্দোলনের চাপেই সরকারকে ন্যায্য দাবি-দাওয়া পূরণে বাধ্য করা যায়। এই ধরনের আন্দোলন তো রয়েইছে, সেইসঙ্গে আরো বৃহত্তর আন্দোলনের ডাক দিতে হবে, একেবারে রান্না বন্ধ করে দেওয়ার মতো।” সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তীর প্রতিবেদন। ২৬ অগাস্ট ২০২৫ সমগ্র পশ্চিমবঙ্গ থেকে প্রায় চার হাজারেরও বেশি মিড-ডে মিল কর্মী কলকাতার […]
The current killing of reporters, photographers and other media professionals in Gaza is part of a longer history of Israeli attempts to silence Palestinian journalists. Maha Nassar, University of Arizona Five journalists were among the 22 people killed on Aug. 25, 2025, in Israeli strikes on the Nasser Hospital in the Gaza Strip. […]
Farmer’s access to markets, price fluctuations, and government support policies, such as Minimum Support Price (MSP) operations, play a vital role in cotton production and farmers’ income. Analyses by SKM indicate that a farmer cultivating cotton on one acre of land in India likely suffered potential loss of Rs.31500 in the year 2024-25 due to the Minimum Support Price […]
The recent targeting of journalists by the BJP-ruled Assam state government is aimed at creating a chilling effect on press freedom, and to intimidate independent voices and silence criticism. August 24, 2025 Right-wing fascists and authoritarian rulers dislike free media, critical and rational voices. They love cheerleaders, hate dissent, and hence weaponise law […]
A US-brokered peace deal between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda binds the two African nations to a worrying arrangement: one where a country signs away its mineral resources to a superpower in return for opaque assurances of security. By Hanri Mostert and Tracy-Lynn Field Via The Convservation A US-brokered peace deal […]
“পরিষেবা বন্ধ করতে আমরা কোনো পরিস্থিতিতেই চাই না, কিন্তু শেষ পর্যন্ত দাবি পূরণ না হলে আমরা কাজ বন্ধ করার পথে হাঁটতে বাধ্য হব,” বললেন আশাকর্মী আন্দোলনের সর্বভারতীয় নেত্রী ইসমাত আরা খাতুন। সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তীর প্রতিবেদন। সমগ্র পশ্চিমবঙ্গের আনুমানিক ৪০ হাজার আশাকর্মী গত ২২ অগাস্ট স্তব্ধ করে দিয়েছিলেন কলকাতার রাজপথ। সাম্প্রতিক সময়ে শ্রমজীবী মহিলাদের এই মাপের […]
Israel’s razing of Gaza is not only about ethnic cleansing. It is about the erasure of a people, a culture and a history that expose the lies used to justify the Israeli state. Aug 22, 2025 By CHRIS HEDGES As Israel ticks off its list of Nazi-like atrocities against the Palestinians, including mass […]
The overwhelming evidence placed before the Tribunal lays bare the gruesome and systemic nature of the violence, the role of the radical groups, the failure of state institutions and the failure of the Central government to fulfil its constitutional responsibility to ensure that Manipur remained under the regime of both rule of law and the Constitution. […]
SKM called eliminating the 11% duty on cotton imports a death warranty to cotton farmers and accuses PM Modi of duplicity and betrayal. Groundxero | Aug 19, 2025 The Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), a platform of farmer unions, has strongly protested the union government’s decision to withdraw the 11% import duty on cotton with immediate […]
Photographs coming out of Gaza since October 2023 have communicated the severity of the destruction: collapsed buildings, bodies in shrouds, dead and maimed children, and bombed-out hospitals and shelters. But none of these galvanised the public as much as the photographic evidence of Israel’s systemic starvation of Gazans. Sara Oscar and Cherine Fahd The […]
Israel is not the only government in history to cut off access to food and water as a tool of war. As an Indigenous scholar who studies Indigenous history, I know that countries – including the United States and Canada – have used starvation to conquer Indigenous peoples and acquire their land. Rosalyn R. LaPier, University of […]
এই উপমহাদেশে হিন্দুত্ববাদী ও মুসলমান মৌলবাদীদের প্রচারে ইতিহাসের এক ধরনের সহজপাচ্য সহজপাঠই বরাবর গুরুত্ব পেয়ে এসেছে, তার সহজ কারণ হল শত্রুপক্ষকে স্পষ্টভাবে চিহ্নিত করে লোক জড়ো করার রাজনীতিতে এর কাটতি প্রচুর। বলাই বাহুল্য যে ইতিহাসের এই সহজপাঠের সঙ্গে ইতিহাসের পাথুরে সাবুদের দুস্তর ফারাক। কাজেই ১৯৪৬-৪৭-এর একচোখো ইতিহাসে গোপাল পাঁঠা যদি (কোনও ভয়ঙ্কর শত্রুর বিরুদ্ধে লড়াইয়ে) পশ্চিমবঙ্গের রক্ষাকর্তা হয়ে […]
Gaza is infinitely small when judged by its geography, economic worth, or political import. Yet, it has proven to be the most significant global event defining this generation’s political consciousness. By Ramzy Baroud August 17, 2025 Via Common Dreams The consequences of the Israeli genocide in Gaza will be dire. An event of this degree of […]
Why such political vendetta by the state government against a student activist; is it the person Hindol who is being targeted or the real target is the institution – Jadavpur University? Is Mamata copying the playbook of Amit Shah of criminalizing protestors and trying to make Umar Khalid out of Hindol? The answers are not […]
আসামে বাংলাভাষী মুসলমানদের “অবৈধ অনুপ্রবেশকারী” হিসেবে চিহ্নিত করে তাদের বিরুদ্ধে একজোট হয়ে ঘৃণা প্রচার চালাচ্ছে রাষ্ট্রযন্ত্র, হিন্দু জাতীয়তাবাদী গোষ্ঠী এবং স্থানীয় অহমিয়া উগ্র-জাতীয়তাবাদী সংগঠনগুলি। এই বিষয়ে ইন্ডিয়া হেট ল্যাব (আইএইচএল) -এর একটি প্রতিবেদন (গ্রাউন্ডজিরো দ্বারা বাংলায় অনুবাদিত) আমরা প্রকাশ করছি। Groundxero | Aug 16, 2025 চলতি বছরের জুন মাস থেকে উত্তর-পূর্বের আসামে বাংলাভাষী সংখ্যালঘু মুসলমান মানুষদের বিরূদ্ধে ধারাবাহিকভাবে চলছে ঘৃণা ও বিদ্বেষপূর্ণ উসকানিমূলক […]
Sanitation workers in Chennai faced a major police crackdown just two days ago, but today they are back in large numbers with their indomitable collective resolve to resist outsourcing of their services to a private company by the DMK-led state government. Groundxero | Aug 15, 2025 As the country celebrated 79th anniversary of its freedom […]
যেদিন ছত্তিশগড়ের জনজাতির মানুষের আর পুরুলিয়ার আদিবাসী মানুষের অধিকার স্বর মিলে যাবে, যেদিন কাশ্মীরের সংখ্যালঘু মানুষদের কেবলই উগ্রপন্থী বলে দেগে দেওয়ার প্রতিবাদে শামিল হবেন উত্তর-পূর্বের রাষ্ট্রীয় নিপীড়নের শিকার মানুষেরা, যেদিন আসমুদ্র হিমাচলের নারীরা জোট বাঁধবেন হিংসার বিরূদ্ধে, যেদিন জাতপাতের রাজনীতি আর শুধু সংরক্ষণ ঠিক না ভুলের বিতর্কে আটকে না থেকে রোহিথ ভেমুলার চিঠির প্রতিটি শব্দকে […]
Over three dozen people’s democratic organizations from Punjab united in a powerful rally and protest march in Moga to condemn the ongoing brutal massacre of Adivasis and their ally resistance forces. By Boota Singh Mehmoodpur Groundxero | Aug 10, 2025 On August 8, 2025, over three dozen people’s democratic organizations from Punjab united in a powerful […]
We have endured more suffering and psychological pain than mountains could bear. By Muhammad Jihad Ismael Aug 08, 2025 Via Common Dreams Since this war began, I am living a life like Robinson Crusoe’s. He faced an existential ordeal on his island, but fought brilliantly for his survival: Here in the ruins of Gaza, […]
Eight women and three men from a small Adivasi village in Odisha are languishing in jail. The women have been arrested as accused in the killing of a 60-year-old man from the same village. Most of these women had been victims of sexual assaults by the man, and they seem to have taken this extreme step to put an […]