It is so very easy to be critical of the commodification of sports: the amount of money in boxing that has reduced it to prize fighting, the glitz and distractions of the IPL, the ugly circus of football clubs being bought by billionaires and treated as trophies. All of that is true. Capitalism corrupts everything. […]
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The student life of any individual is undoubtedly the best time. Because this is the period for acquiring knowledge—a time to observe and understand the world and one’s surroundings in the light of newly gained wisdom. Alongside formal education, it is during student life that one gets the opportunity to explore the diverse treasures of
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When I started as an SFI activist, the ideology of neoliberalism was very dominant. The anti communist ‘triumph’ after the fall of the Soviet Union and the socialist countries in Eastern Europe and subsequent hegemony of neoliberalism had significantly altered social science departments in academia. Across the length and the breadth of the country, social
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After 2 long decades, the All India Conference of SFI is happening in Kerala again. It was in January 2003 that the 12th All India Conference of SFI had happened in Kozhikode and now after 22 years, it is coming back to Kozhikode once again, making this comference a very significant one historically. The 18th
Blazing Ahead: SFI’s Resurgence, Resistance & the Road ahead. Read More »
“In the dark times,Will there also be singing?Yes, there will be singing.About the dark times.” It has been more than eight decades since Bertolt Brecht wrote this verse in 1939. And Today in India, a corporate-communal nexus exploits us mercilessly. They ensnare students in crippling debt with exorbitant tuition fees while corporations profit off our
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THE world woke up on 13 June to the news that Israel had launched an attack on Iran. US President Donald Trump had hinted at the impending assault when he instructed American diplomats to prepare for evacuation. The boldness of the attack stunned many, especially since the US and Iran had been engaged in what
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The atrocities committed by NATO and its member states against humanity over the past seven decades have no parallel in history. Today, there exists only one organization that poses a universal threat to human dignity worldwide—it is also imperialism’s primary weapon. Without understanding NATO’s crimes, no meaningful anti-imperialist movement can be built. NATO was formed
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