In early 20th-century Kerala, the Asari (carpenter) caste resisted colonial and Brahminical systems by deliberately ignoring opportunities offered by colonial institutions. This act of refusal was a strategy against being shaped into compliant subjects within a hierarchical order. The article...
Today’s subaltern multitudes are striving to break free from the vertical power structures that dominate political parties, mirroring those of the state itself. This signifies a growing refusal to remain mere puppets manipulated by the hidden strategies of party elites....
Following the prolonged and resolute protest by farmers, Modi government was ultimately forced to repeal its anti-people agricultural laws. What are the broader implications of this historic farmers’ movement? How are popular struggles across the globe paving the way for...
The Roots and Routes camp inspired us with a deep yet simple realization: that we, along with indigenous people, animals, birds, and every living being, are all part of nature, not separate from it. We don’t stand above or outside...
February 19, 2003 will go down in Kerala’s history as a day when the combined might of the state machinery, institutions, and ‘civilised’ society would bear down to crush the weakest among the state’s indigenous peoples, because they dared to...
It is essential to examine the role of hegemony within democracy and how this form of power relates to capitalism. Subaltern identity represents humanity’s creative and persistent resistance to citizenship, as well as the expression of invaluable human experiences in...
“The first casualty of war is truth” — a familiar adage. Historically, this phrase highlighted the strategic silence maintained by governments to protect national morale or wartime interests. It referred to the approach of conveying facts to the public only...
Communist orthodoxy sees the working class as the main source of surplus value, but it is unpaid labour, drawn from plundered, expropriated, and enslaved subaltern communities, that truly creates it. Subalterns like women, Adivasis, Dalits, and traditional farmers retain autonomy...
China shares major rivers with India and other countries, with water being central to its industrial plans. As China faces a growing water crisis, it may increasingly depend on the Brahmaputra, raising tensions with India and risking conflict. Diplomatic focus...
Some voices in India have applauded the government's move to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan, framing it as a patriotic act. However, such applause often overlooks the dangerous precedent of turning water, an essential and shared resource, into...
