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Celebrating Irfan Habib at 95: Some reflections on his idea of India

Habib highlights Karachi Resolution of 1931 as one of the best steps taken by Congress. Civil Disobedience Movement of 1930 was supported by a large section of people. He also quips about participation of Khudai Khidmatgars in the National Movement. Bhagat Singh and Subhas Chandra Bose were both aware about the dangers of Hindu communalism. Bose made Hindi and Urdu as the official languages of the Azad Hind Fauj. After Independence, Nehruvian India strove for land reforms and industrialisation. Towards the end, he asks young minds to strive for a secular and prosperous India. India that we aspire to build, Habib sa’ab asserted, must include all religions and eliminate poverty, unemployment, and hunger.

Zeeshan Husain
September 7, 2026

Annihilation of Caste and Class Struggle

Revolution is necessary for caste annihilation because caste is woven into the economic, state, social, and cultural fabric of society at every level. Caste annihilation is, in turn, necessary for revolution because genuine working-class unity cannot be forged while the working class itself remains fragmented along caste lines.

Freevoice
August 14, 2026

Today’s postmodernist geniuses are bad copies of bad copies

Today’s postmodernist geniuses are bad copies of bad copies.

Freevoice
August 9, 2026

How Farming Changed the Fortunes of Farmers Mangalsingh and Shantidevi Ganaga

Through the dedication of hardworking farmers like Mangalsingh and Shantidevi, this journey of organic farming will surely show many more farmers the path to self-reliance in the times ahead.

Vikas Parashram Meshram
August 7, 2026

Generation Z’s Tremor at the Seat of Power

The name Cockroach Janta Party is itself an ironic commentary. When those in power belittle protesting youth, dismiss citizens who ask questions, and compare them to lowly insects, then picking up that very insult and naming one's own movement after it — turning it into mockery of the arrogance of power — is a mark of this generation's distinctive style.

Vikas Parashram Meshram
July 25, 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

Lived Islam in north India: Case of nineteenth-century Delhi

Lived Islam in India was always pluralistic in its orientation, which means Islam as lived by Muslims always existed side by side with Hinduism, Christianity, Jainism and other religions. Like most religions, Islam also had its own set of differences.

Zeeshan Husain
June 28, 2026

Dal Utsav: A Confluence of Tradition, Nutrition and Food Sovereignty

The message of the Dal Utsav was unambiguous: the first right over a crop grown in the field must rest with the nourishment of the family, not with the market. This is the very soul of food sovereignty.

Vikas Parashram Meshram
June 25, 2026