'I refuse to play the condemnation game. Let me make myself clear. I do not tell oppressed people how to resist their oppression or who their allies should be.'

The digital revolution in India is a perfect example of how the interests of big business and Hindu supremacy coincide perfectly.

Solidarity, speaking up for others is more important than ever. But that too has become a perilous activity, says the acclaimed writer.

If the RSS wins this battle, its victory will be pyrrhic. Because India will cease to exist.

If the RSS wins this battle, its victory will be pyrrhic. Because India will cease to exist.

The technology cannot be rolled back. But it needn’t be allowed to function as an unregulated, legitimate industry, reeling in profits, blossoming and flowering on the pulsing transcontinental highways of the free market.

The politics of India’s COVID-19 catastrophe.

The politics of India’s COVID-19 catastrophe.

It must be militantly waged and beautifully won. 

Could it be that August 5, 2020 is not actually what it’s being cracked up to be? Could it be instead the little limpet of shame clamped to the soaring cliff of glory? 

Arundhati Roy responds to demands that she be arrested for urging ‘civil disobedience with a smile’.

“If we can do this to Shahidul Alam, think of what we can do to the rest of you – all you nameless, faceless, ordinary people. Watch. And be afraid.”

It has been important for governments, both the Congress-led UPA and the BJP, to disguise their attacks on Adivasis, and now, in the case of the BJP, their attack on Dalits, as an attack on “Maoists” or “Naxals.”