July 2026

From Struggle to Solution How a Grassroots Organization and the Administration Together Changed the Face of Bajna’s Villages

This summer's punishing heat bore down hard on rural life in the Bajna block of Ratlam district, Madhya Pradesh, and no one felt it more sharply than families in villages where the handpumps had sat broken for months. As temperatures climbed, so did the thirst of the land, and the desperation of those who depended on it. Eighteen villages were in especially dire straits, with thirty-four handpumps out of order, forcing women to walk long distances just to fetch a pot of water.

Vikas Parashram Meshram
July 22, 2026

The Slow Death of the University

Education should indeed be responsive to the needs of society. But this is not the same as regarding yourself as a service station for neocapitalism. In fact, you would tackle society’s needs a great deal more effectively were you to challenge this whole alienated model of
learning.

Freevoice
July 15, 2026

The Planet’s Largest Carbon Sink Is Reaching Its Limits

Climate change discussions usually focus on what is happening above the water: rising temperatures, heatwaves, melting glaciers, sea-level rise. But roughly a quarter to a third of all the carbon dioxide humanity emits never reaches the atmosphere or remains there. It dissolves into the ocean. For decades, this has slowed the pace of global warming considerably — without the ocean acting as a vast carbon sink, temperatures would already be higher than they are.

Freevoice
July 13, 2026

The Political Marx: A Review

In today’s world, when capitalism, flawless global technological surveillance, years of war and continuous genocide, violent finance capital, and the use of the state machinery are exploiting the working class, peasants, and labouring people in ever newer ways—at such a difficult time it is imperative to reread Marx’s political writings anew.

Freevoice
July 4, 2026