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Jan 8, 2025 | 
scroll.in | Malini Subramaniam
A bloated body lay in the bushes, brimming with flies. On December 19, a week after the Chhattisgarh police claimed to have killed seven uniformed Maoists in the forests of Narayanpur district, I had trekked to Kummam village where four of the dead belonged to. Their bodies had been buried by the time I reached. Their families told me they were ordinary villagers, not Maoists, and that they had been killed by the security forces in the bushes close to their farmland.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Nan Levinson |Malini Subramaniam |MA Krishna |Yoav Litvin
The CPIML unequivocally condemns the cowardly disruption by RSS goons of the screening of Had Anhad at the Udaipur Film Festival. This brazen attack on democratic spaces and progressive art reflects the growing attack on freedom of speech under the fascist regime, which seeks to stifle any voices critical of exploitation and injustice.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Nan Levinson |Malini Subramaniam |MA Krishna |Hiren Gohain
Shabnam Virmani’s Film Had Anhad Based on Kabir’s Songs Stopped Mid ScreeningOn the second day of 9th Udaipur Film Festival, due to pressure and terrorizing of RSS activists, the RNT medical college administration forcefully stopped the film screenings.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Nan Levinson |Malini Subramaniam |MA Krishna |Hiren Gohain
I thought I was done with free speech. For nearly two decades, I reported on it for the international magazine Index on Censorship. I wrote a book, Outspoken: Free Speech Stories, about controversies over it. I even sang “I Like to Be in America” at the top of my lungs at an around-the-clock banned-book event organized by the Boston Coalition for Freedom of Expression after the musical “West Side Story” was canceled at a local high school because of its demeaning stereotypes of Puerto Ricans.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Dae-Han Song |Malini Subramaniam |Mohd Khan
Imagine a high-rise building with about 200 flats ( some big, some small) whose residents come to know that in nine flats so many bombs and explosives are stocked that these have the capacity to blow over the entire building and kill almost all residents.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Malini Subramaniam |MA Krishna |Carlos L Garrido |Hiren Gohain
Malini Subramaniam examines the challenges before journalists in speaking truth to power. A special focus from Free Speech Collective (FSC) as Jharkhand goes to the polls for its sixth Assembly elections since the formation of the state in 2000. The young and mineral-rich state of Jharkhand carved out of Bihar in 2000 will soon have its 6th Legislative Assembly elections in two phases on 13 and 20 November 2024, to elect the state’s 81 legislators. The results will be declared on November 23, 2024.
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
scroll.in | Malini Subramaniam
Deep inside the forests of Bastar in southern Chhattisgarh, Maoist insurgents drawn from local Adivasi communities have been locked in a low-intensity war with the Indian state for nearly four decades. This year, Chhattisgarh police claim to have made a major breakthrough in the conflict, killing 153 Maoists in nearly 40 encounters, higher than any annual tally seen in the past, barring 2009.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
scroll.in | Malini Subramaniam
Deep inside the forests of Bastar in southern Chhattisgarh, Maoist insurgents drawn from local Adivasi communities have been locked in a low-intensity war with the Indian state for nearly four decades. This year, Chhattisgarh police claim to have made a major breakthrough in the conflict, killing 141 Maoists in 38 encounters, higher than any annual tally seen in the past, barring 2009.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
scroll.in | Malini Subramaniam
Deep inside the forests of Bastar in southern Chhattisgarh, Maoist insurgents drawn from local Adivasi communities have been locked in a low-intensity war with the Indian state for nearly four decades. This year, Chhattisgarh police claim to have made a major breakthrough in the conflict, killing 141 Maoists in 38 encounters, higher than any annual tally seen in the past, barring 2009.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
scroll.in | Malini Subramaniam
Sodi Nande’s brother was executed by the Maoists, supposedly for being a police informer. Her husband was killed by the police, allegedly for being a Maoist operative who had a hand in his brother-in-law’s murder.
