protests

Back to the Scorched Earth

V Shoba

A group of Tamil farmers made national headlines one year ago by kicking off a series of absurd protests in Delhi. V Shoba meets key characters from the landmark agitation who are back in their villages battling an unending farm crisis

Historical Wrongs and the Present

Madhavankutty Pillai

Dalit assertion is no excuse for violence against neutral parties

Kashmir: The Price of Soft Secessionism

Rahul Pandita

The current political experiment in the Valley has failed badly

JNU: The Last Outpost

Kumar Anshuman

A portrait of JNU where revolution still rages in the minds of the street-fighting class

Punjab: On the Boil

Siddharth Singh

A stolen holy book. Erupting streets and offending posters. An inept government and angry farmers. Is Punjab inching toward the brink? Open follows the fault lines of a volatile state

A Day of Protests

arindam

A visual account of the anti-government protests against the gang rape of a girl in New Delhi

The American Autumn

Shougat Dasgupta

The wave of protests in American cities has been variously panned as leaderless, rudderless, purposeless... but perhaps America is rediscovering the messy nature of democracy