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  • Not a CIA agent but a Red-Baiter

    One can have criticisms of the way Indian Left has not defended the cause of the working class. But such a criticism could come only from someone committed to the working class struggle. However, there are many other forms of criticisms too. One such criticism has recently been forwarded by Ramachandra Guha, a respected intellectual.…… Read more

  • Left’s discomfort in the ruling alliance: what loses out is the class politics

    The recent political turmoil, if one wants to term it so, in India leaves certain questions for us to ponder over. It once again raises the question whether it was appropriate for the left to be part of an alliance whic unequivocally voiced interests of the ruling class against the masses and especially the working…… Read more

  • Against Neoliberal Assault on Education in India: A Counternarrative of Resistance

    Ravi Kumar The Indian State has been demonstrating its unwavering committment to private capital and its neoliberal offensive. The education and health sector reflect its anti-people orientation along with other anti-working class measures such as the doing away with old pension scheme, privatisation of airports, neglect of farmers resulting in over 1.5 lakh suicides across…… Read more

  • Conscientização, Everyday Struggle and Dissent: Towards a Framework for Effective Community-Education Linkage

    Ravi Kumar Community has been one of the most popularly used terms in educational discourse in particular and development discourse in general. It has become one of the defining features of the educational interventions – on part of state as well as non-state institutions. However, not much attention has been paid to its conceptualisation. It…… Read more

  • When the private soldiers migrate for Job: conflict and change in a strife torn village

    Ravi Kumar  Conflict, Structure and Society The Central Bihar has been in conflict since early 1980s, involving different radical left groups, gangs of landlords and private armies constituted by the landed gentry of different castes over a period of time. This conflict has been intrinsically about social structures and the situations- economic, social and political-…… Read more