At a press conference held at the Press Club of India on Monday, concerns were raised over large-scale deletions from electoral rolls in West Bengal just ahead of the Assembly elections, with speakers alleging that the exercise reflects a grave assault on federal democratic processes by the ECI. Organised by the Association for Protection […]
Demonstrations held in cities across UK against escalating state violence under “Operation Kagar” in central-eastern India. Groundxero | April 4, 2026 Protests were held across Britain on March 28, as internationalist and progressive groups mobilised against what they described as escalating state violence under “Operation Kagar” in central-eastern India. Demonstrations were held in London, Manchester, […]
সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তীর প্রতিবেদন পশ্চিমবঙ্গে এসআইআর বিরোধী আন্দোলনের অন্যতম হিসাবে গত ৪ মার্চ ২০২৬ থেকে কলকাতার পার্ক সার্কাস ময়দানে অনির্দিষ্টকালের জন্য ধর্ণা শুরু করেছে ভোটাধিকার রক্ষা মঞ্চ। ৪ মার্চ একটি গণ কনভেনশন থেকে স্বতঃস্ফূর্তভাবেই এই অবস্থান বিক্ষোভ শুরু করেন এই মঞ্চের সদস্যরা। ধর্ণা মঞ্চের এক মাস পূর্ণ হওয়ায় গত ৩ এপ্রিল পার্ক সার্কাসের ধর্ণা মঞ্চ […]
Despite official denial, sanitation workers and activists say caste-based sewer deaths in Modi’s Swachha Bharat continue unabated —“every 2–3 days, one Indian dies in a gutter.” Mouli Sharma Groundxero | 26 March, 2026 | New Delhi “I joined [the movement] in 2015,” says Mangal, a 29-year-old from Delhi orphaned after his father drowned to death in […]
The targeted attacks by pro-company people or hired goondas and the active connivance of the district administration with the company is coming down heavy on the movement. Even then, the adivasis and Dalits opposed to mining are fighting it out legally in the courts and through large mobilization on the ground. Groundxero | 23 March, […]
What does it mean to be reduced to a name on a list—one that can be erased by the State at its will? On International Working Women’s Day, women opposing the SIR process gathered at Park Circus Maidan in Kolkata, and answered that question not through slogans alone, but by reclaiming identity as something lived, […]
রাষ্ট্র যত নির্দিষ্ট কাগজে বেঁধে ফেলতে চায় মানুষের নাগরিক হওয়ার অধিকার, ততই স্মৃতিতে জেগে ওঠে দেশের, পরিবারের, সমাজ-প্রতিবেশীর, বন্ধুর আখ্যান, যার মধ্যে জেগে থাকে নাগরিক হওয়ার অধিকারের যাবতীয় প্রমাণ। সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তী গত চার মার্চ থেকে ভোটাধিকার রক্ষা মঞ্চ থেকে কলকাতার পার্ক সার্কাস ময়দানে চলছে এসআইআর বিরোধী গণ অবস্থান। শুধুমাত্র মঞ্চের সদস্যরাই নন, এখানে […]
Groundxero | March 5, 2026 By Mouli Sharma Fifty-one JNU students were detained and 14 arrested by the Delhi Police on February 26 over a students’ protest march to the Ministry of Education, demanding implementation of the recently stayed UGC guidelines for the prevention of caste discrimination in higher education institutions, alongside condemning the casteist remarks […]
Celebrate the 77th Republic Day on 26 January 2026 with “People’s March”; Defend Democracy, Secularism and Federalism; Repeal all pro-corporate legislations; Call for Tractor Parade, Vehicle/Motorcycle Rally & Mass Demonstrations At State/District/Block headquarters Groundxero | Jan 24, 2026 As the Indian state prepares to observe the 77th Republic Day with military spectacle and official ceremony, […]
১৫ জানুয়ারি (১লা মাঘ) পূজা-সমাবেশের মধ্য দিয়ে সাঁওতাল সমাজ আবারও তুলে ধরেছে তাদের অটুট সম্পর্ক – দেবতা, পাহাড়, সংস্কৃতির সঙ্গে। গ্রামসভা ও আদিবাসী সমাজের সম্মতি ছাড়া কোনো প্রকল্প নয় – এই দাবি। উন্নয়নের নামে দেবস্থান ধ্বংস হলে বৃহত্তর আন্দোলনের পথে যাবেন তাঁরা। Groundxero | 16 January 2026 পৌষ মাসের শেষ আর পয়লা মাঘ; এই সময়ই […]
More than 125 lawyers, legal professionals (faculty), and law students from all over the country have called on the Governor of Odisha to urgently intervene to stop state repression on protesting villagers and take steps to halt all illegal administrative actions aimed at handing over community-managed forest land to Vedanta for bauxite mining in Sijimali. […]
Kamaljit, Research Scholar and Doctoral Candidate, Department of Philosophy, Punjab University (PU), talks on the ongoing student-led struggles to protect PU’s autonomy and democratic structure under attack from the Central government. Groundxero | November 17, 2025 During the past several weeks, Punjab University has become the site of one of the most significant student-led democratic […]
The Adivasi and Dalit communities of Tijimali continue to actively resist Vedanta’s proposed bauxite mining project in the region. An update on the struggle. Groundxero | November 8, 2025 Since mid-2023, Adivasis and Dalits from Tijmali, Kuturumali, and Majhingmali—located in the Kashipur and Thuamul Rampur blocks of Rayagada and Kalahandi districts, respectively—have been actively resisting […]
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 […]
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 […]