একটি গ্রাউন্ডজিরো প্রতিবেদন। গত ১২ তারিখ রাত ১১:৩০ টা নাগাদ, বকুলতলা থানার অন্তর্গত জীবন মণ্ডলের হাটের কাছে একটি বাড়ি থেকে তিন জন গণআন্দোলন ও সমাজকর্মীকে গ্রেফতার করে পুলিশ। ওই তিন জনের একজন যাদবপুর বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের বাংলা বিভাগের ছাত্র তীর্থরাজ ত্রিবেদী, আরেকজন পলিটেকনিক ইন্জিনিয়ার আলফ্রেড ডিক্রুজ। তাদের সাথে থাকা আরেকজনও পলিটেকনিকের ছাত্র রাকেশ আলি। পরেরদিন অর্থাৎ […]
Activists in West Bengal are at this point pondering over, debating and discussing the adverse impacts of the much touted mega open-cast coal mining project in Deocha-Pachami in the Birbhum district of West Bengal. While the adivasi villagers in the area are expressing their opposition to the mining project on their ancestral lands, and many […]
Farmers and Farm Unions struggle has achieved an historic victory. The union government have accepted most of their demands, including the complete withdrawal of the three contentious farm laws. The farmers have left for their homes vacating the borders of Delhi, which they have been occupying for over a year. But this historic victory means […]
Villagers are opposing the setting up of a 13.2 million tonne per annum(MPTA) capacity integrated steel project by JSW Utkal Steel Limited by Sajjan Jindal on land previously acquired for the South Korean steel major POSCO. A 900-MW captive power plant and a 10 MPTA cement unit are also proposed to be set up near […]
This is the second part of a two-part article by Prof. Amit Bhaduri. The articles were originally published at gaurilankeshnews.com The brightness has faded. The next election in UP, the most populous state in the country with maximum representation is around the corner. The BJP has lost badly state elections in West Bengal in […]
This is the first part of a two-part article by Prof. Amit Bhaduri. The articles were originally published at gaurilankeshnews.com A monster of not an entirely known shape has recently been injured, but how badly is not fully known. That only the future will tell. The monster, they say is a creation of Indian […]
4 December 2021: Another cyclone is approaching Odisha. Most of the people in coastal Odisha are hurrying into shelter homes. But the people of Dhinkia cannot sit at home. They are in panic. Jindal Steel Works wants to acquire their land for setting up a steel plant. The villagers fear that the police will enter […]
A statement endorsed by a part of the Indian academic community against the unscientific analysis of the ‘Uttar Pradesh model’ battling COVID 19, authored by IIT Kanpur faculty member Manindra Agarwal and others, that became a blanat propaganda of the UP Government. This statement is meant to be read in conjunction with a detailed […]
কৃষক আন্দোলনের বর্ষপূর্তিতে গ্রাউন্ডজিরো-র তরফে সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তী কথা বললেন আন্দোলনের সঙ্গে এমন কয়েক জনের সঙ্গে যাঁরা আন্দোলনের সঙ্গে সরাসরি যুক্ত এবং পর্যবেক্ষক। ভারতীয় কিষাণ ইউনিয়ন একতা উগ্রাহান-এর সভাপতি যোগীন্দর সিং -এর বক্তব্য, “দেখুন, মোদী সাহেব কৃষি বিল প্রত্যাহারের যে ঘোষণা দিন কয়েক আগে করলেন তাতে তো অনেক দেরি করে ফেললেন তিনি, এ তো আরও […]
Farmers’ struggle to continue for remaining demands in victorious spirit. Farmers will continue to occupy the protest sites. The unity achieved through this struggle needs to be strengthened further so that a cross country movement can be built to achieve pro-peasant solution of the agrarian crisis, said Joginder Singh Ugrahan, while addressing a huge rally […]
Today, the Farmers’ movement to repeal the three farm laws completed one year of its historic struggle. In nationwide protest programs held on the occasion — tens of thousands of farmers assembled at protest sites on Delhi borders — at Singhu, Tikri, Ghazipur and Shahjahanpur. Lakhs of farmers took part in the solidarity rallies, marches, […]
কৃষক আন্দোলনকে কাছ থেকে চাক্ষুষ দেখবেন বলে টিক্রি বর্ডার-সিংঘু বর্ডারে পৌঁছে গেছেন কোয়েল সাহা ও সন্দীপ সাহা। এই আন্দোলন তাঁদের কাছে ‘হট্টমেলার দেশ’ হয়ে ধরা দিয়েছে। সরকার ও পুঁজির মিলিত শোষণ, জাত-ধর্ম-লিঙ্গের নানা অসাম্যের বিপরীতে এক সমতার দুনিয়া যেন। আন্দোলনের নানা চরিত্র তুলে ধরার পাশাপাশি তাঁরা আন্দোলনকারী কয়েকজন মানুষের কথা বিশেষ ভাবে বলেছেন – কৃষক, […]
Groundxero report Farmers’ unions, mass organizations and left political parties across the country are observing this 26 November by holding solidarity programs in the form of rallies, demonstrations, blockades etc. to mark the completion of one year of the farmers’ movement on the Delhi borders, demanding repeal of the three pro-corporate farm laws enacted […]
Srinagar (22 November, 2021) : The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday evening arrested prominent Kashmiri human rights activist Khurram Parvez after raiding his residence and office in Srinagar earlier in the day. Parvez has been booked under Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) and on other multiple charges. Parvez is the chairperson of the […]
361st day, 22nd November 2021: A massive Kisan Mahapanchayat was held today at Lucknow. Family members of martyrs of Lakhimpur Kheri Massacre attended the Mahapanchayat and were felicitated on stage by SKM leaders. In Lucknow today, the SKM’s Kisan Mahapanchayat was a grand show of strength of the farmers. Dozens of SKM leaders were […]