“Relearning Anarchism in India” by Jaimine Bezboznik
Source: http://www.readoo.in/2016/02/anarchy-in-india In India as elsewhere, anarchist thought is widely misunderstood. As Bhagat Singh (1907 – 1931), one of the few Indian revolutionaries who had explicit anarchist leanings, put it: “The people are scared of the word anarchism. The word anarchism has been abused so much that even in India revolutionaries have been called anarchist to … Continue reading
“The reason it’s so difficult to obtain progressive verdicts in India’s courts” by Girish Shahane
Source: http://scroll.in/article/716073/The-reason-it’s-so-difficult-to-obtain-progressive-verdicts-in-India’s-courts Liberals won a small victory on Tuesday when the Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional Section 66A of the Information Technology Act that had criminalised the transmission of electronic communications that had the potential to annoy or offend people. The phrasing of what constituted a crime was so vague that a large percentage … Continue reading
The new PKK: unleashing a social revolution in Kurdistan
Excerpts In his years in solitary confinement, running the PKK behind bars as his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, Abdullah Öcalan adopted a form of libertarian socialism so obscure that few anarchists have even heard of it: Bookchin’s libertarian municipalism. Öcalan further modified, rarefied and rebranded Bookchin’s vision as “democratic confederalism,” with the consequence … Continue reading
“Our democracy is based upon semi-anarchist freedom of thought” by Safina Ali
Source: http://www.preservearticles.com/201105136578/essay-on-right-to-protest-and-indian-democracy.html Social peace and democratic set-up in India is threatened by the agitations and strikes, some call it a prelude to new thinking and new sensibility. Ethical foundation of human behavior is crumbling down. Every aspirant for political office employs force to make his presence felt. Naturally, democracy and the democratic spirit is in … Continue reading
“AnComm fallacy” by Jaimine
Source: Indian Libertarians http://www.indianlibertarians.org/ancommfallacy/ It is thousand times more better to have common-sense without education than to have education without common-sense. In this context, I intend to highlight that anarcho-communism is a 16 letter word used by inferior magicians with the wrong alchemical formula for transforming earth into gold. To simplify, Anarchist communism (AnComm) advocates the … Continue reading
India’s humane anarchy India After Gandhi: The history of the world’s largest democracy by Ramachandra Guha
Review by Aditya Adhikari A unitary, democratic and progressive Indian state was by no means pre-determined by its colonial legacy. At the time of Independence in August 1947, there had been nearly a year of incessant rioting between groups of Hindus and Muslims. An Islamic state had been carved out from the western and eastern flanks … Continue reading
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Decolonizing Anarchism examines the history of South Asian struggles against colonialism and neocolonialism, highlighting lesser-known dissidents as well as iconic figures. What emerges is an alternate narrative of decolonization, in which liberation is not defined by the achievement of a nation-state. Author Maia Ramnath suggests that the anarchist vision of…
Stories of Saadat Hasan Manto
Toba Tek Singh, Manto’s most memorable classic. While thousands are involved in the unprecedented communal frenzy that follows the announcement of Partition, the inmates of a mental asylum find themselves in a strange situation. The authorities have decided that while the Muslim inmates can stay back, the Hindu and Sikhs will have to go to … Continue reading
Dogs (A poem by Faiz Ahmed Faiz)
These stray dogs in the streets, Begging – an endowment their only treat. Curses from others, are their total effects, Abuses by the world, are their only assets. Neither rest at night, nor joy in the day, Filth is their abode, in gutters do they lay. If agitated, then turn them on one another, A … Continue reading
Civil Disobedience in a Democratic Regime | Gandhi versus Ambedkar, Part II
In the last post, I discussed the differences in Gandhi’s and Ambedkar’s attitudes towards civil disobedience of law in a democracy, and thus distinction in their visions of democracy itself. In this post, I continue on those differences to illustrate how Ambedkar’s model of democracy has some disturbing implications on freedom and is liable to … Continue reading
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