Visakhapatnam police suppress public scrutiny of the city’s rapidly expanding data-centre projects as land displacement and environmental costs come under scrutiny. Groundxero | 11 August 2026 A peaceful campaign against the rapid expansion of hyperscale data centres in and around Visakhapatnam was disrupted by the police on Sunday (August), with the authorities first […]
The indefinite hunger strike against the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) in Chennai entered its seventh day on Saturday, August 8. The agitation, led by the Anti-NEET Federation and the Joint Movement Against NEET, is demanding not merely reforms to the examination but its complete abolition, along with greater state control over education. Chennai, August […]
“As Prime Minister, ackowledge this failure, make a national apology and take immediate action”, Safai Karmachari Andolan said in a memorandum to the Prime Minister. New Delhi, August 4: Hundreds of sanitation workers from more than 10 states, families of those killed while cleaning sewers and septic tanks, Members of Parliament, students, writers, and […]
PM SHRI is the newest chapter in a much older argument about who gets to decide what do India’s children learns, an argument that, fifty years after the 42nd Amendment, still doesn’t have a settled answer. by C. Mujeebu Rahman For all the debate around PM SHRI in Keralam since the last Assembly […]
Unless the movement’s objectives expand beyond the resignation of an individual minister toward structural reforms, such as increased public investment in education, ending the coaching-dependent education model, and ensuring meaningful employment opportunities, changing the ruling party or replacing the Education Minister alone will bring no fundamental change to the lives of India’s students. By […]
Rape culture and its critique from the educated middle classes remains restricted to urban contexts rendering the marginalized cases of non-urban, non-dominant sections outside the framework of rape culture and so outside the realm of protests. By Sohini Saha Groundxero | July 14, 2026 Incidences of rape and the protests that have followed from them have […]
The real concern is not primarily about eggs or ISKCON but about the transformation of rights into charity and citizens into beneficiaries. by Tinku Khanna There is a particular kind of politics that hides inside a child’s plate. We are trained to see the noon meal in a government school as charity — […]
That is not investigation; it is intimidation wearing an investigation’s clothes — a counter-terror agency turned into a tool against dissent. Groundxero | June 22, 2026 At 4.30 in the morning on 18 June, a dozen National Investigation Agency (NIA) officers walked into the south Kolkata flat of Jhelum Roy — a scholar, […]
A looming crisis is threatening the lives and livelihoods of Adivasi communities across the Eastern Ghats. The biodiversity, nature, and environment of the Eastern Ghats are hurtling towards destruction. Yet, the struggle of the indigenous communities to save the Eastern Ghats continues. Update: 20 June, 2026 The brutal police crackdown on Kantamal village […]
A viral comedy show clip with the “₹370 biryani” remarks has now turned into a police case. What followed was called a “controversy.” It actually should be called a revelation. It is not coincidental that we are living through this biryani moment in a political climate where rape threats are a standard tool of silencing […]
টিংকু খান্না ‘Towards Equality’ থেকে ২০১০-এর অচলাবস্থা পর্যন্ত ১. গণপরিষদ থেকে পঞ্চায়েত পর্যন্ত ১৯৪৬-এর ডিসেম্বরে গণপরিষদের অধিবেশন যখন শুরু হল, মঞ্চের সামনে প্রথম সারিতে আসীন একমাত্র মহিলা ছিলেন সরোজিনী নাইডু। প্রায় তিনশো সদস্যের সেই পরিষদে সংবিধান রচনায় অংশ নিয়েছিলেন মোট পনেরো জন মহিলা। সেই সময় সিদ্ধান্ত নেওয়া হয়েছিল — মহিলাদের জন্য আসন সংরক্ষণ নয়, বরং […]
কেন্দ্রের বিজেপি সরকারের রূপান্তরকামী মানুষদের (অধিকার সুরক্ষা) সংশোধনী আইন, ২০২৬ নিয়ে আসা এবং পশ্চিমবঙ্গে ভোটের মুখে এসআইআর, যাতে যে লক্ষ লক্ষ মানুষের নাম ভোটার তালিকা থেকে বাদ গেছে, সেখানে আপাতত কোনোও পরিসংখ্যান পাওয়া না গেলেও এক বড় সংখ্যক মানুষ আছেন ট্রান্সজেন্ডার সম্প্রদায়ের – এই দু’টি বিষয় স্পষ্টতই পশ্চিমবঙ্গের ২০২৬-এর বিধানসভা নির্বাচনে রূপান্তরকামী সম্প্রদায়ের ভোটের ক্ষেত্রে […]
Press Release 27-4-2026 Visakhapatnam The Human Rights Forum (HRF) demands the immediate suspension of the Environmental Clearances (ECs) granted on 18 April 2026 by the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) to two hyperscale data-center parks – in Tarluvada (Vizag Mega Data Center Park Limited) and Rambilli (Vizag Rambilli Data Center Park Limited). […]
As residents of a nation-state focused on undermining gender justice through concerted and choreographed action of all its functionaries, how do we resist? By Samata Biswas The last month and a half in India have been singularly detrimental to all the strides that the country has made towards gender justice. On 13th […]
When the government’s top lawyer tells the Supreme Court that the 2018 Sabarimala verdict was “wrong in law,” he is not making a jurisprudential argument. He is making a political declaration — and women’s bodies are its currency. Groundxero | April 15, 2026 by Tinku Khanna When Solicitor General Tushar Mehta stood before the nine-judge Constitution […]