Despite their occasional reformative approach, the judiciary is ultimately the machinery of a patriarchal, casteist State, and hence, by nature patriarchal and casteist – so is the bureaucracy attached to it. By Pritha Paul Shakespeare once wrote, “What’s in a name?” with a certainty only men can afford in this world. A man is […]
The Modi government has been inviting the world’s most toxic industries into India, and lately, the most hyped one has been building data centres that consume an insane amount of water and electricity, creating water crises in regions where they are set up. By Shyamoli Jana It is hard to find another government […]
With two-thirds of all journalist deaths while on duty in 2025 attributed to Israel, a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists exposes a deepening global crisis of press freedom. Groundxero | Feb 25, 2026 A record 129 journalists and media workers were killed in the line of duty in 2025, making it the […]
The coordinated violence in Indian university campuses in February 2026 following the UGC’s notification of new equity regulations in context of caste discrimination in educational institutions reveals the nature of the present moment: a systematic assertion of savarna neo-fascism—an ideological project that seeks to violently erase any challenge to caste supremacy, even when such challenges […]
As India heads towards a nationwide general strike on February 12 against the four labour codes, Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant’s remarks holding trade unions responsible for stopping industrial growth during a PIL hearing in the Supreme Court have sparked a sharp backlash from trade unions and Left political organisations. Groundxero | Jan 29, […]
A Press Statement by the People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) examines how the SC’s order reinforces the political use of anti-terror law to suppress dissent. PUDR notes that while five individuals have secured relief after years of incarceration, the Supreme Court’s order ultimately advances the interests of a State that prefers persecution over prosecution. […]
A group of academics and concerned citizens has condemned the SRM Institute of Science and Technology (SRMIST) for terminating Assistant Professor Lora Santhakumar, calling the move a serious assault on academic freedom, due process, and freedom of conscience within Indian universities. Groundxero | Dec 31, 2025 In yet another chilling instance of policing thought and […]
The continued exemption of marital rape from criminal law exposes how the Indian state prioritises patriarchal order over women’s bodily autonomy, dignity, and right to justice. By Debasree Sarkar Groundxero| December 29, 2025 Despite constitutional guarantees of equality, dignity, and personal liberty, Indian law continues to deny married women protection from sexual violence within […]
More than a century after the Ghadar Party launched one of the earliest internationalist challenges to British colonial rule in India; its revolutionary legacy continues to live on in Punjab. The annual Gadri Mela in Jalandhar is not merely a commemoration of the past but a living political and cultural space that reconnects history with […]
নীতিশ কুমারের মতো স্বনিযুক্ত অভিভাবক হয়ে যান অধিকাংশ পুরুষই পরিচিত, অপরিচিত প্রায় সব মহিলাদের। কেনই বা হবেন না? ‘আদমি হ্যায় না!’ সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তী Groundxero | December 19 “উও ভি তো আদমি হ্যায় না! পিছে নেহি পড় যানা চাহিয়ে। ছু দিয়া নাকাব। কহি অউর ছুতে তো তব কেয়ে হো যাতা?” “তো আপকো কেয়া লগ […]
The appeal by the All India Feminist Alliance (ALIFA) state that the incident cannot be separated from what it calls a growing pattern of demonisation of visible markers of Muslim identity, including hijab, burqa, skull caps and beards etc. Groundxero | December 18 A coalition of feminist activists, lawyers, scholars and researchers under […]
মানবাধিকার দিবসের দিন সাংবাদিক রূপেশ কুমার সিং-সহ ছ’জন রাজনৈতিক বন্দীর জেলের অব্যবস্থা ও অস্বাস্থ্যকর পরিবেশের বিরুদ্ধে প্রতীকী অনশন। সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তীর প্রতিবেদন ১০ ডিসেম্বর মানবাধিকার দিবস। এই দিনেই বিহারের পাটনায় আদর্শ কেন্দ্রীয় কারা, বেউর-এ ছয় দফা দাবি নিয়ে হাই সিকিউরিটি সেল-এর ছ’জন রাজনৈতিক বন্দী এক দিনের প্রতীকী অনশনের ডাক দিয়েছিলেন। এই ছয় বন্দীর মধ্যে একজন সাংবাদিক রূপেশ […]
The Apex Court’s ruling lays bare a deeper, ongoing shift in the state’s approach to natural commons—one that privileges extraction over conservation, and corporate interest over ecological survival. By Tinku Khanna Groundxero | 10 December 2025 Indroduction The Supreme Court’s recent acceptance of a narrow, elevation-based definition of the Aravalli Hills marks a turning […]
The killings of the journalists were deliberate acts intended to silence them. “They weren’t collateral victims. They were killed, targeted for their work … Key witnesses to history have become inconvenient eyewitnesses, bargaining chips, and people to be ‘eliminated’,” said RSF director general Thibaut Bruttin. Groundxero | 9 December 2025 2025 was yet another […]
The scapegoating of farmers for pollution serves a dual purpose for the corporates whose interests the Indian state actively promotes. It lays the groundwork for a future push to corporatise agriculture by portraying farmers’ ‘backward practices’ as in need of modernisation. It also diverts attention from the real culprits —the automobile industry, the rise in […]