• Art Attacks: From attacks on MF Husain to Deepika Padukone, what has changed over the years?
  Kanika Katyal in conversation with Malvika Maheshwari

• Basanti: Writing the New Woman
  Sarat Chandra Mukherjee

• Modi’s Comments on Train 18 Snag: Nationalist Bulldozing Yet Again
  Ishita Mehta

• The Censorship Saga: Play on Kashmir cancelled after protests
  Kamala

• Decolonising the Frame: India’s first international indigenous film festival
  Kanika Katyal

• Running Bookshops in the Age of Amazon: A Conversation with Rick Simonson
  Ishita Mehta in conversation with Rick Simonson

• Did Akbar really examine paintings every week? All the World’s a Mughal Stage
  Somok Roy in conversation with Mika Natif

• “The history of India is a history of mortal conflict between Buddhism and Brahmanism.”
  Anupama Rao

• Save Education, Save Democracy, Save the Nation: Delhi Chalo, February 18 and 19
  Statement from the Indian Writers' Forum

• Saviour Complex: Recent Cartoons from the BJP
  Glenissa Pereira and Kanika Katyal

• NIT Calicut administration denies permission for LGBTQ lecture
  Kamala

• Art Attacks: When “attackers” use the language of dignity, justice & equal rights
  Kanika Katyal in conversation with Malvika Maheshwari

• The Politics of Viewership Regulation: How YouTube is Censoring Anand Patwardhan
  Ishita Mehta

• The ideological common ground between Hindutva and Zionism
  Sukumar Muralidharan

• “He may have been an ustad, but he never stopped being a student.”
  Namita Devidayal

• Amol Palekar: “Why are we still silent about this?”
  Kanika Katyal

• “The allotment of Rs 3 Crore would provide scope for women to work in the industry”
  Kamala

• The Myth of ‘Israeli technology’ and its Impact on Indian Agriculture
  Press Release by Bangalore Palestine Solidarity Forum

• Writing From the Margins: The First Dalit Literature Festival
  ICF Team

• “We shared a past in three countries and two languages”
  Aamer Hussein

• Whom the Machete Spares
  Susmit Panda

• Aamer Hussein: Weaving Stories from Memories, Myths and Fables
  Daniya Rahman in conversation with the writer

• Netanyahu Scheduled to Visit India Again: Gearing Up for Elections with a Dose of Zionism?
  Apoorva

• “But eventually, I did find a permanent place to rest, a home of bricks and mortar…”
  Ajeet Cour

• Learning from Anand Teltumbde
  Salim Yusufji

• The Garga Archives: A Glorious Multiverse
  Kanika Katyal in conversation with Anuj Malhotra and Suraj Prasad

• Gandhi’s Last Fast
  Kumkum Sangari

• “Death for me would be a glorious deliverance rather than witnessing the destruction of India”
  M K Gandhi

• “Tamasha Khud Na Ban Jana Tamasha Dekhne Walon”
  Jigisha Bhattacharya

• What is the Future of Betis of Devadasis?
  Yogesh S

• RSS Continues Attacks in the Name of God
  Kamala

• “Civil society is an autonomous space from society and the state”
  Daniya Rahman in conversation with Ghanshyam Shah

• On Republic Day: Is the Government Upholding or Overturning the Constitution of India?
  ICF Team

• “Is my son an anti-national or a son of Mother India?” : Radhika Vemula
  Kanika Katyal

• “हमारी मनुष्यता को समृद्ध कर चली गईं कृष्णा सोबती”
  मुकुल सरल

• What Krishna Sobti Has Left Us
  Githa Hariharan

• “We must talk about how we talk about rape”
  Sohaila Abdulali

• Dharwad Literary Festival turns sour after BJP Yuva Morcha vandalism
  ICF Team

• Malathi Maithri: “To control my language would be the equivalent of killing myself”
  K Srilata and Swarnalatha Rangarajan

• Two Poems
  Manohar Shetty

• Indian Film Viewer: Citizen or Devotee?
  Uma Maheswari Bhrugubanda

• “From Shadows to the Stars”: A Tribute to Rohith Vemula
  ICF Team

• Sharankumar Limbale: “Literature that was restricted to a class or a group is now expanding”
  Pranita in conversation with the writer

• Is Uri the Border of the twenty-first century?
  Kanika Katyal

• “This idea of a university is the idea of academic freedom”
  Alok Rai and Ram Ramaswamy

• Nituparna Rajbongshi: “Cartoons are voices of the masses”
  Kamala

• Women of Resistance
  Pariplab Chakraborty

• “दलित साहित्य एक क्रांतिकारी साहित्य है”
  प्रणिता और शरणकुमार लिंबाले के बीच बातचीत

• “The song is the emotional expression of the character”
  Gulzar in conversation with Nasreen Munni Kabir

• The Accidental Prime Minister: Modi’s Not-So-Accidental Attempt to Sway Political Fortunes in 2019
  Mani Chander and Kaustubh Chandra

• Nayantara Sahgal: “It’s quite possible that the organisers were under political pressure”
  Kamala

• Art Attacks: The Conflict between Community and Individual Rights
  Malvika Maheshwari

• Breaking Barriers: Women enter Sabarimala hours after Women’s Wall
  Ashique Ali T

• “The history of the University is fraught with all kinds of caste, class and gender solidarities.”
  Debaditya Bhattacharya in Conversation with Souradeep Roy

• Mrinal Sen: “A perfect combination of a wise-old-man and completely young at heart”
  Kanika Katyal

• India 2019: The Country We Want, the Country We Don’t Want
  ICF Team

• 2018: Art That Questioned
  ICF Team

• 2018: When the People Rose in Resistance
  ICF Team

• 2018: The Year of Assaults on Citizens
  ICF Team

• Thackeray: ‘Mobocracy’, Nativism and Terror in the Times of Saffron
  Kanika Katyal

• India 2019: काव्य रचना और राजनीति
  मंगलेश डबराल

• The “Mediatisation” of Indian Society
  Prasanth R in conversation with Pamela Philipose

• 25 Years of Kalpana Lajmi’s Rudaali
  Shoma A Chatterji

• “I had to wait for my lesson until the brahmin girls had finished and left.”
  Srividya Natarajan

• “By making the ‘anti-national’ institutions the best institutions, the government aims to privatise them”: Debaditya Bhattacharya
  The writer in conversation with Souradeep Roy

• “It is their call, not ours to decide how much interaction we want with the Sentinelese.”
  Ishita Mehta in conversation with D Raghunandan

• Seeing Reason in Anand Patwardhan’s Latest Documentary Vivek
  Souradeep Roy

• India 2019: Three Fragments
  Devanshu Mishra

• High Court orders Central University of Kerala to reinstate Prasad Pannian
  ICF Team

• Lynch Nation: “The film doesn’t talk, but listens”
  Kanika Katyal in conversation with Ashfaque EJ and Vishu Sejwal

• The making of Delhi as we know it today
  Swapna Liddle

• The Making of a University: Interviews with Debaditya Bhattacharya
  The writer in conversation with Souradeep Roy

• “He comes from a lineage of people who were lashed and killed for speaking out. It is no wonder he has settled into silence.”
  Zainab Priya Dala

• Watching Raed Andoni’s Ghost Hunting in India
  Apoorva

• India 2019: छप्पन इंच का सीना और अन्य कवितायेँ
  राहुल राय

• SPPU “Postpones” 79th Indian History Congress
  ICF Team

• Kithab: Silencing Secular Minds
  ICF Team

• Sabarimala Row: Kerala government to form a women’s wall
  Daniya Rahman

• The Pilgrimage
  Ira Singh

• Kisan Mukti March | In Photos
  ICF Team

• India 2019: Gestural Dialogue
  S Vijayaraghavan

• “He was on the ground, stretched out near a pile of hay. Next to him was a can of pesticide.”
  Namita Waikar

• The Spectre of Babri Masjid
  Daniya Rahman

• A Time For Elegies
  Souradeep Roy

• “You do not want us to occupy your space because we smell?”
  ICF Team

• Bodies and Bulldozers
  Gyan Prakash

• India 2019: State of War and Other Poems
  Soibam Haripriya

• Comrade Amit: We will remember your call for unity
  ICF Team

• The Exclusions in the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2018: Some Thoughts
  Kanika Katyal

• “The hands that grow food give life to the nation”
  ICF Team

• Disruptive Arrival of The Emergency
  Gyan Prakash

• “Time for polyphony” : Jerry Pinto on the Task of a Translator
  Kanika Katyal in conversation with the translator and writer

• “My boyhood was ending and I was becoming a man, but I faced this future without a home”
  Visier Meyasetsu Sanyü with Richard Broome

• The Importance of Art in Hard Times
  Kanika Katyal in conversation with Ramu Ramanathan

• India 2019: The Great Leader’s Shadow
  Salil Chaturvedi

• “कभी धनक सी उतरती थी उन निगाहों में”
  दानिया रहमान

• “On asphalt, you hold your arms out” — Remembering Meena Alexander
  ICF Team

• Rhythm of Resistance: When T M Krishna Did Sing
  Daniya Rahman

• “Dilli tu aabaad hai, shaayar ke qalb-e-zaar mein”
  Saif Mahmood

• Two Poems by Pankaj Singh
  Translated by Medha Singh

• “I changed my surname so people would not know me as a Namashudra”
  Translated by Sipra Mukherjee

• “The more the right-wing attack us, the more we will resist”: Sunil P. Elayidom
  ICF Team

• India 2019: A Self-Reliant Nation
  D Raghunandan

• What’s in a name?
  Souradeep Roy

• Let T M Krishna Sing
  ICF Team

• “Love makes better city-people of us all”
  Ravish Kumar

• “Bodhi is an ode to Ambedkar”: Director Vinit Chandrasekharan
  Kanika Katyal in conversation with Vinit Chandrasekharan and Ninad Mahajani

• Liberalism and Sabarimala: Why Shashi Tharoor is Wrong
  Arjun Sengupta

• The Wagon Tragedy: Painting a Saffron Past
  ICF Team

• “The question of questioning is no longer a part of our everyday social and political grammar”
  Ramin Jahanbegloo

• Notes from discussion: Police Subjectivity in Kashmir by Gowhar Fazili
  Apoorva Gautam

• Allahabad? Prayagraj? What does history say?
  Souradeep Roy

• Hate Crimes in India: We Need to Come Together to Understand the Problem and Respond to it
  Mohsin Alam Bhat in conversation with Vivan Eyben and Abhilasha Chattopadhyay

• Mehsampur: The Story of a Film Within a Film
  Kanika Katyal

• Aruna Sairam, Don’t Lend Your Voice to Apartheid
  Statement from artists and writers

• एकनाथ आवाड की आत्मकथा: स्ट्राइक अ ब्लो टू चेंज द वर्ल्ड
  आईसीएफ & न्यूज़क्लिक प्रोडक्शन

• Devi and Other “Kalis”
  Shoma A Chatterji

• Stooges Over Scholars: Sangh’s Latest Attacks on Academic Institutions
  ICF Team

• Inextinguishable Fires
  Shanta Gokhale

• “In a choice between the beautiful and the ugly, the film always chooses the ugly”
  Kanika Katyal

• #MeToo: Working Class Women Share Their Stories
  Lekha Adavi

• Jonaki: Part Dream, Part Waking
  Kanika Katyal

• India 2019: दूसरा बटवारा 
  मासूम शाह

• “How do we switch off that light in the room?”
  Kanika Katyal

• “Sabarimala is more an issue of gender equality than of religious freedom”
  Writers and academics on the Sabarimala conflict

• Strike a Blow to Change the World
  Githa Hariharan in conversation with Milind Awad

• Height of Ugliness
  Arun Khopkar

• The Sabarimala Verdict: Whose Morality, Whose Freedom?
  Arjun Sengupta

• “His God is very different from mine”
  Feroz Rather

• India 2019: Death of Democracy – An Inevitable Possibility under Capitalism
  Rajan Gurukkal

• The Birth of an Empress
  Ruby Lal

• Who’s Afraid of Kancha Ilaiah?
  Ishita Mehta

• India 2019: Everything Drowns, Except This Poem
  K Srilata

• “Because you are a woman?”
  Anand

• Voices of Clay: The Musical Journey of the Ghatam
  Sumana Chandrashekar in conversation with the Indian Cultural Forum

• The Mahatma on Celluloid
  Shoma A Chatterji

• How Game of Thrones inspired a children’s book set in Jharkhand
  Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar in conversation with Kanika Katyal

• India 2019: The Nation I Want and the Nation I Don’t Want
  Narendra Nayak

• #AdhocsSpeak: Chronicle from Delhi University
  Sonali Dutta Roy

• Is Rajnath Singh celebrating Dussehra or war-mongering?
  Souradeep Roy

• The Significance of a Scientific Outlook
  Narendra Achyut Dabholkar

• “The film industry’s attitude gives the notion of a very patriarchal space”: Bina Paul
  ICF Team and Peoples Dispatch

• Reliving Tagore Through Kuvempu
  Rahamath Tarikere

• Play About Queers Cancelled as VHP and Right Wing Organisations Protest
  Yogesh S

• “Everything was beautiful”
  Daniya Rahman

• कविता वीरेन: दो कविताएँ
  वीरेन डंगवाल

• India 2019: The Voice of Resistance
  Merlin Moli

• Can the (Married) Woman Speak?
  Abhilasha Chattopadhyay and Sneha Chowdhury

• “There is no room for religious fundamentalism among us”
  Nayantara Sahgal

• #AdhocsSpeak: Chronicles from the North-East
  Toko Anu

• Remembering Shujaat Bukhari’s Fearless Journalism
  Shujaat Bukhari

• Breaking Taboos, One Note at a Time
  Sumana Chandrashekar talks to the Indian Cultural Forum

• Kashmir and the Imagination of the Hindu Rashtra
  Concerned Citizens' Collective

• India 2019: In Modern India
  Salma

• What Buddhadev Bose, one of the pioneers of Bengali modernism, thought of English
  Buddhadev Bose

• Sui Dhaaga: Weaving Deception
  Kanika Katyal

• “Wear the robe of wisdom,/ brand Lalla’s words on your heart”
  Nayantara Sahgal given the Lal Ded award: Souradeep Roy's report and interview

• “Saadat Hasan died at 42. Manto lives on.”
  Rakesh Sengupta

• “I have won my freedom”: Gautam Navlakha after Delhi High Court Judgement
  Gautam Navlakha

• TM Krishna: “It is ironic that people who have built this large Hindu temple in a Christian country would take such a decision”
  ICF Team

• Hitler and the Rat-fry Hotel
  Kavery Nambisan

• How a Marathi play represents the crisis of Indian democracy today
  Makarand Sathe

• When Will Akhlaq Get Justice?
  ICF Team

• देश सभी का होता है
  धम्म दर्शन निगम

• Manto in My Court
  Mehdi Ali Siddiqui

• The India We Want: A Country Without Manual Scavenging
  ICF Team

• Manto
  Nandita Das

• Listening to India from 1947 to the Present
  Ankur Bhardwaj, Seema Chishti and Sushant Singh

• Over 80 Palestinian, Latin American and International Organisations Send a Powerful Message of Solidarity to Arrested Human Rights Activists
  Solidarity Statement against Repression

• “We hadn’t dreamt that a day would come when the newly-born republic of hope would turn into a republic of fear for thinkers and writers.”
  Shanta Gokhale

• “The motive was to teach the community a lesson for celebrating a history which undermines the Hindutva agenda.”
  From the office of Vrinda Grover

• S Shankar: “We need to think of free speech both in terms of form and content.”
  The novelist and writer in conversation with Souradeep Roy

• Anand Teltumbde: “The foremost task is to save India in the 2019 elections…”
  Anand Teltumbde

• (Re)locating Early Kashmir
  Shonaleeka Kaul

• The Self-Reflexive Cinema of Rituparno Ghosh
  Shoma A Chatterji

• Dissent on Social Media Leads to Unfair Expulsion and Suspension of Student and Faculty of Central University of Kerala
  ICF Team

• “We are experiencing a ‘Cow-faced Tiger’ Emergency”: Devanoora Mahadeva
  Translated into English by Rashmi Munikempanna

• “Prisons can’t lock up ideas and ideals”
  Aniket Alam

• From the Salon to the Studio
  Vidya Shah

• All India Women’s Protest Rally
  ICF Team

• Justice DY Chandrachud: “It’s too long a period for the LGBTQ community to suffer the indignities of life”
  ICF Team

• India 2019: Three Poems
  Ra Sh

• Revisiting Penguin Island
  P. Sachidanandan

• The Other
  Paro Anand

• Remembering Gauri Lankesh
  ICF Team

• Girish Karnad: “No one has the right to curb our freedom of expression”
  ICF and Newsclick Team

• Cartoonist P Mahamud Wins the First PEN-Gauri Lankesh Award for Democratic Idealism
  ICF Team

• M S Sathyu: “It is necessary for some of us to say vehemently that we oppose fascism”
  ICF and Newsclick Team

• How the term “naxal” is used to target dalits, tribals and other subaltern sections of Indian society
  Anand Teltumbde

• Ramachandra Guha: “Pune police commissioner should be writing crime fantasy novel”
  ICF and Newsclick Team

• Letter to The Hindu
  Anand Teltumbde

• The Indian Suffragettes
  Sumita Mukherjee

• India 2019: A Song From the Ruins
  K Satchidanandan

• #Me Too Urban Naxal
  Arundhati Roy

• “They were afraid of his ideas and words…”
  ICF Team

• “We stand in solidarity with all those who speak for our fellow citizens’ rights.”
  Statement from the Indian Cultural Forum

• “The entire process was conducted as though I was a dreaded terrorist”: Anand Teltumbde

• Yeh Din Bhi Jayenge Guzar, Guzar Gaye Hazaar Din: Gautam Navlakha
  Gautam Navlakha

• The Virus of Orange Madness: Eve Ensler on Trump
  The playwright and activist in conversation with Souradeep Roy

• संविधान जलाना देश की बुनियाद पर हमला है!
  धम्म दर्शन निगम

• आसिफ़ा
  सौम्य मालवीय

• When I Hid My Caste
  Baburao Bagul

• National Register of Citizens: A Discussion on its Historical Context and Outcomes
  Toko Anu

• From Communal Deadlock to a Communal Emergency: An Ambedkarite Assessment of “Indian Conditions” Today
  Soumyabrata Choudhury

• The Graphic Form Today
  In conversation with the writers and illustrators behind First Hand Volume II: Graphic Narratives from India

• The Muslim in Hindi Cinema
  Shoma A Chatterji

• Remembering Dabholkar and The Fight to Save Scientific Temper
  Newsclick Team

• Anti Social Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy
  Siva Vaidhyanathan

• देवदासी: एक पहचान
  भगवती प्रसाद

• क्यों भूल जायें बाबरी मस्जिद ध्वंस से गुजरात नरसंहार का मंज़र?
  भाषा सिंह

• Flavours of Ethnicity in North-East India
  Nandita Haksar

• August 15th: Re-making India
  ICF Team

• Audrey Truschke: “Aurangzeb is most in need of scholarly attention.”
  The historian in conversation with Souradeep Roy and Ishita Mehta

• Different shades of Karunanidhi
  Balu Sunil

• Statement of Solidarity with the Protesters in Bangladesh
  Editorial Collective, Indian Cultural Forum

• We will not be Silenced: The Writers’ Protest Continues
  Statement from the Indian Writers' Forum

• Rahman Abbas: “I condemn the statement of former President of Sahitya Academy Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari and it hurts me.”
  Rahman Abbas

• Hindutva’s Henchmen: Revelations Made by the SIT Probe into Gauri Lankesh Murder
  Rajendra Chenni

• Audrey Truschke: “The cancellation of my lecture is an indication of shrinking spaces for rational thought in public discourse in India.”
  Souradeep Roy and Ishita Mehta in conversation with the historian

• Damodar Mauzo: “Indian writers have always stood by their right to freedom of expression…”
  Damodar Mauzo

• No Substantial Outcome of AMMA Meeting with WCC
  ICF Team

• The 2017 Assam Lynchings
  Harsh Mander

• “The hierarchy of languages is a peculiarly Indian situation…”
  Arvind Krishna Mehrotra in conversation with Souradeep Roy

• Police Interrogates Filmmaker Divya Bharathi Again Over Her Second Documentary
  ICF Team

• Remembering Hiroshima
  ICF Team

• Why Sanathan Sanstha’s Allegation is Redundant
  ICF Team

• Writers Respond to CJI Dipak Misra’s Observation in Favour of S Hareesh
  ICF Team

• Sahitya Akademi Responds, Condemns Threats to Writers
  ICF Team

• Interrogating the Silence Around the Partition of India
  Daniya Rahman in conversation with Alok Sarin and Sanjeev Jain

• Letter Sent to the President of the Sahitya Akademi
  Indian Writers' Forum

• Boundaries of Displacement
  Shakeel Anjum

• “No one can curb my right to speech,” says Konkani Writer Damodar Mauzo
  Kamala

• Appeal to Participate in the Email Drive Against the HECI Bill, 2018
  ICF Team

• There is a Portentous Rage in Sumeet Samos
  Abinash DC

• How a peaceful dalit demonstration led to charges of sedition
  Anushka Singh

• Dr. Kamala Sohonie: Entry of Women to the Indian Institute of Science
  H S Anupama

• Is This Azaadi?
  Anand Chakravarti

• Kumkum Sangari looks back at Recasting Women — the landmark book on gender
  The academic in conversation with Pragati Mohapatra

• After Eminent Malayalam Writers Support S Hareesh, Writers in Other Languages also Come Out in His Support
  Souradeep Roy

• “Hum wahan hain jahan se humko bhi kuch hamari khabar nahi aati”
  Daniya Rahman & Lourdes M Supriya

• Writers against Self-censorship
  Statement from the Indian Writers' Forum

• दलित बहुजन दृष्टिकोण और महिषासुर विमर्श
  ब्रिज रंजन मणि

• Women Respond to Madras HC Judgement: Father’s Name not Required in Birth Certificates
  ICF Team

• Kaagaz ke Phool: 59 Years Later
  Shoma A Chatterji

• Artist Alone
  T M Krishna

• Rediscovering the Calligraphers of Hyderabad
  Shaista Anwar

• जाति के प्रश्न पर कबीर
  कमलेश वर्मा

• S Durga is a nuanced portrayal of everyday harassment
  Lourdes M Supriya

• “No writer should accept awards from any religious fundamentalist organisation”: Paul Zacharia
  The writer in conversation with ICF Team

• Towards an Inclusive Imagination of Justice
  Chandramohan S

• An extract from Pieces of Earth: The Politics of Land Grabbing in Kashmir
  Peer Ghulam Nabi Suhail

• Writers and Scholars Come Out in Support of Film Critic Kathi Mahesh
  ICF Team and Newsclick

• शंख घोष की दो कविताएँ
  प्रयाग शुक्ल द्वारा मूल बाँग्ला से अनुवादित

• Notes on Rangini and other monologues by women
  Shoma A Chatterji

• Songs Keep Reminding Unilever of Environmental Racism but Unilever Still Won’t Clean Up
  ICF Team

• Widows of Vidarbha
  Kota Neelima

• “AMMA’s previous stance was a farce”: Sajitha Madathil
  The actor in conversation with ICF Team

• “He was our pillar of strength”
  Megha Pansare on Govind Pansare

• Act! Write to the MHRD on the new education policy and read the response by teachers in Indian universities here
  ICF Team

• Gauri Lankesh and the Myth of the Naxalite Assassinator
  Chidanand Rajghatta

• “Bhima Koregaon is a story of dalit-bahujan assertion”: Somnath Waghmare
  Anand Mangnale in conversation with Somnath Waghmare

• ‘बहुजन’ सिर्फ जातियों पर आधारित होंगे?
  देवेंद्र चौबे

• Overlooked Voices
  The filmmaker in conversation with Lourdes M Supriya

• Inside Forward Press: a Phule Ambedkarite Media Organisation and Press

• She Was No Longer Believable
  Ashok Mitra

• The Disappearing Rohingyas
  Azeem Ibrahim

• Who is the Mastermind Behind the Assassinations of the Rationalists?
  ICF and Newsclick

• Naach Artist Ram Chandra Manjhi wins the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award 2017
  Lourdes M Supriya

• The Dynamics of Power in Kashmir
  Khalid Bashir Ahmad

• Who is the Mastermind Behind the Assassinations of the Rationalists?
  Yogesh S

• The Assassination of Shahjahan Bacchu and Shujaat Bukhari and the Rise of the Right
  Souradeep Roy

• How Citizenship is Gendered
  Bishnupriya Dutt, Janelle Reinelt and Shrinkhla Sahai

• Shujaat Bhukari – a Brave Reporter, a Real Journalist
  Vijay Prashad

• The Literary B R Ambedkar
  Soumyabrata Choudhury in conversation with Souradeep Roy

• Can there be newer ways of thinking about Hindu-Muslim relationships in South Asia?
  Somok Roy

• “Urdu is my mother tongue and the love of my life”
  Daniya Rahman

• Interview with Malayalam writer K P Ramanunni who atoned for the Kathua rape
  The writer in conversation with ICF Team

• “The Vietnam war taught us to think”: Saeed Mirza
  The filmmaker in conversation with Souradeep Roy

• Why we need to remember the Babri Masjid demolition
  Sameena Dalwai & Irfan Engineer in conversation with Lourdes M Supriya

• “The target reader does not exist:” Naveen Kishore
  The publisher in conversation with Souradeep Roy

• Bringing the Monumental to the People
  Lourdes M Supriya

• Memories and re-imaginings of 1947
  Tarun K Saint

• There Can Be No “Mirror of Truth” for the RSS
  Yogesh S

• Crossing Borders: Part II
  Anahita

• The use of arms as self-defense for dalits
  J V Pawar

• Crossing Borders: Part I
  Anahita

• “Swachh Bharat is not possible without the annihilation of caste”: Anand Teltumbde
  The writer on his latest book The Republic of Caste

• The Image of Shakespeare in Indian Cinema
  Shoma A Chatterji

• Touchstone of Aesthetics
  Sanjeev Chandan

• Writing and Rewriting Partition’s Afterlife
  Tarun K Saint

• Madras High Court Upholds the Right to Laugh
  ICF Team

• “Our play has no gods”
  ICF Team

• Women of Bhalaswa: Stories Beyond Waste
  A photo series by Chintan

• The Mahad Satyagraha: A Declaration of Equality
  Soumyabrata Choudhury in conversation with Souradeep Roy

• Rediscovering Tarabai Shinde and Savitribai Phule
  Anita Bharti

• A Person Like You
  Neyaz Farooquee

• The Paltaiyya Torture and Gupta-ji’s Cavalcade
  Ramchandra Singh

• “There is nothing that can stop dissent” : Basavaraj Sulibhavi
  The activist and publisher in conversation with Yogesh S

• “Ruling classes and castes use reservations as a prop to inflict more violence upon dalits”: Anand Teltumbde
  The writer in conversation with Souradeep Roy

• Psychiatrists Unravel the Psychological Toll of Partition
  Sanjeev Jain and Alok Sarin

• The Minority Votes in the Karnataka Elections
  Shivsundar

• “Is the Left ready to receive a new Ambedkarite wound?”: Soumyabrata Choudhury
  The writer in conversation with Souradeep Roy

• Understanding the Vote Share in the Karnataka Elections
  Shivsundar

• Countdown to Ayodhya
  Anant Bagaitkar

• B R Ambedkar as an Europeanist

• Muslims of Malabar and the Left
  Pinarayi Vijayan

• “Ambedkar broke any prevailing consensus on nationhood”: Soumyabrata Choudhury
  The writer in conversation with Souradeep Roy

• A Possible Peace: Imagining Palestinians and Israelis Living Together
  Edward Said

• The Freedom Theatre in Palestine: Building a Theatre from Ruins
  Ola Johansson and Johanna Wallin

• Retrieving Babasaheb’s Writings from Oblivion
  J V Pawar

• The Kolkata People’s Lit Fest gave me hope to organise one such in my hometown
  Chandramohan S

• Remembering the Mughals with Catherine B Asher
  The historian in conversation with Somok Roy

• How the Dalit Panthers Planned to Burn Holy Books
  J V Pawar

• “I did not want to receive the National Award from a BJP Minister”: Aneez K Mappila
  The director in conversation with Sreelakshmi

• Dalit Imagination: An Antidote to Communal Nationalism
  Chinnaiah Jangam

• From Equity to Preferential Equity
  R V Vaidyanatha Ayyar

• #May Day: Were You?
  Lourdes M Supriya

• Filmmakers explain why they boycotted the National Film Awards Ceremony
  Sreelakshmi

• On Satyajit Ray’s birthday, remembering dignified criticism of historical films
  Souradeep Roy

• A Battle For Freedom: Wilson and the Safai Karamchari Andolan
  Newsclick Team

• Remembering Lenin on May Day
  Souradeep Roy in conversation with Prakash Karat, Suchetana Chattopadhyay, and Vijay Prashad

• #MayDay: The Gendered Proletariat
  Swati Ghosh

• On #MayDay, Remembering the Powerful Kisan Long March
  P Sainath, Ashok Dhawale

• The Importance of Being Rajni Tilak
  Vidya Bhushan Rawat

• Caste in Music
  T M Krishna

• Modi’s Political Grammar
  Danish Husain

• Mridula Garg on writing, censorship, and her latest novel
  The author in conversation with Lourdes M Supriya

• The Culture of Discrimination
  Romila Thapar

• Political Parties Have Looked at Slum Dwellers as Vote Bank: Narasimhamurthy
  Yogesh S

• Dalit Memory, Imagination and the Nationalist Narrative
  In conversation with Chinnaiah Jangam

• ബാബായ്ക്ക് ഒരു കത്ത്
  K Satchidanandan

• The Menace of Fake News, a.k.a ‘Godi Media’
  Ravish Kumar

• The Spark in Their Words
  Githa Hariharan

• An Anti-Art Fair
  Lourdes M Supriya

• “I don’t want people to see The Slave Genesis as an anthropological film”: Aneez K Mapila
  The director in conversation with Sreelakshmi

• A New Ambedkarite Wound
  Soumyabrata Choudhury

• Why is Devdas, a failure, so popular among Indian filmmakers?
  Shoma A Chatterji

• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: “I want to revive the connections between Africa and Asia”
  The writer in conversation with Sudhanva Deshpande

• How Bengal Burned in the Name of Ram
  Biswajit Roy

• How the Israeli military kills innocent Palestinians
  Max Blumenthal

• Caste: The Ugly Side of the Indian Railways
  Bhasha Singh

• Perumal Murgan and TM Krishna Respond to Statue Vandalism
  ICF Team

• Lenin in 1917, Russia; Lenin in 2018, India
  Souradeep Roy

• Na Turk, Na Hindu: Shared Languages in North India
  Francesca Orsini

• [Watch] Inter Caste Marriages: India’s Forbidden Love
  ICF Team

• When Jesuit Priests Presented a Painting of Madonna at the Court of Akbar

• SC : Choosing a partner is a fundamental right
  ICF Team

• Was Amit Shah’s Yeddyruppa Comment a Freudian Slip or the Truth?
  Yogesh S

• [Obituary] Remembering M Sukumaran (1943-2018): The One who Asked Questions
  K Satchidanandan

• Decide Now, Which Side You Are On!
  Megha Pansare

• If Modi is a Leader, Can Hitler be Far Behind?
  Souradeep Roy

• A Life Lived in Shadows and Silences
  Githa Hariharan

• Disciplining the Cherry Orchard: Campus Tales from Delhi
  Somok Roy

• Students of the Centre for English Studies, JNU, release a statement in support of their former chairperson, Udaya Kumar

• The Marxist Beginnings of Cultural Analysis
  David Anshen

• Fact Check: The RSS Had No Role in India’s Freedom Struggle
  Shamsul Islam

• यहीं कहीं रहेंगे केदारनाथ सिंह
  मंगलेश डबराल

• Kedarnath Singh: A Short Personal Note
  K Satchidanandan

• Lingayat Religion Status: From an Egalitarian Philosophy to a Political Tool
  Shivsundar in conversation with Yogesh S

• Memories of Amma
  Kalpana Karunakaran

• Politics, Culture, and the Political Economy of Everyday Communalism in Eastern Uttar Pradesh
  Sudha Pai and Sajjan Kumar

• How Ngugi wa Thiongo was translated into Telugu
  N Venugopal

• Independent Publishing in India: Almost Island
  Sharmistha Mohanty in conversation with Souradeep Roy

• “भारतीय मीडिया और सिनेमा ‘कास्ट घेटो’ हैं”
  सोमनाथ वाघमारे की आनंद मंगनले के साथ बातचीत

• Artists Respond to the Kisan Long March
  ICF Team

• Sridevi: Breaking Stereotypes?
  Shoma A Chatterji

• A Look at Sexism in the Medical Field
  Translated by Yogesh S

• Lest we forget, it’s International WORKING Women’s Day
  ICF Team

• Growing up in Colonial Africa
  Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o in conversation with Githa Hariharan

• A few outstanding films at MIFF that you might have missed
  Shoma A. Chatterji

• The BJP must remember that Lenin, and not the RSS, was more supportive of India’s anti-colonial struggle
  ICF Team

• Amidst the Prasar Bharati-Smriti Irani imgroblio, listen to Mahatma Gandhi’s only speech delivered at Broadcasting House in 1947
  ICF Team

• The Perilous State of Mental Health in Kashmir
  Sahba Husain

• Tapan Ghosh’s Hindu Samhati and its Brand of Bengali Hindutva
  Biswajit Roy

• Juergen Boos: “Free Speech is the Frankfurt Book Fair’s DNA”
  The director of the festival in conversation with Souradeep Roy

• Can a Film Create a Movement?
  Shoma A. Chatterji

• Gauri Lankesh Beyond Hagiography
  Souradeep Roy

• Is the Hindu Samhati Mamata Banerjee’s New Ally?
  Biswajit Roy

• Why do Kashmiris Keep Fighting the Indian Army?
  Gautam Navlakha

• Syndicated Hinduism
  Romila Thapar

• The Withering Away of the University
  Saitya Brata Das

• What Autonomy Means: When the Sahitya Akademi published a anthology of Pakistani writers
  Translated from Kannada by S R Ramakrishna

• Samas: The Third National Convention of Dakshinayan Abhiyan
  ICF Team and Newsclick

• Beyond the Confines of Religion: A Look at Karnataka’s Syncretic Legacy Through the Celebration of Rajappa Swami’s Urus
  Rahamath Tarikere

• Rama Abhirama: Locating the Hero among Antiheroes and Sidekicks
  Somok Roy

• Malayalam Writer K P Ramanunni’s Statement After Receiving the Sahitya Akademi Award
  KP Ramanunni

• K P Ramanunni explains why he donated his Sahitya Akademi prize money to Junaid’s family
  ICF Team and Newsclick

• Writing and Looking at the World from Nigeria
  Abubakar Adam Ibrahim in conversation with Souradeep Roy

• Women’s Reservation and Political Consciousness
  Translated from the original Kannada by Yogesh S

• Sedition or Dissent? The Government Can’t Seem to Tell the Difference
  ICF Team

• Films Division’s decision to not screen In the Shade of Fallen Chinar at MIFF is censorship; let’s not call it by any other name
  Souradeep Roy

• Dissent and Protest in the Early Indian Tradition
  Romila Thapar

• Malayalam Poet Kureeppuzha Sreekumar Responds to the Attack by RSS
  The poet in conversation with Sreelakshmi

• Kumkum Sangari looks back at Recasting Women — the landmark book on gender
  The academic in conversation with Pragati Mohapatra

• [Watch] Upavahana: A Film on Rohingya Refugees
  ICF Team

• Kumkum Sangari: “Padmavati is a fictional character, but the Hindu Right has fabricated fiction as well.”
  The academic in conversation with Souradeep Roy

• “They killed Gauri because she was alive”
  ICF Team & Newsclick

• “Are there bookshops in Nigeria?” Really? That’s a Question?
  ICF Team

• The Third National Convention of Dakshinayan Abhiyan
  Yogesh S

• Githa Hariharan’s Response to Aniruddhan Vasudevan Declining the Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation
  ICF Team and Newsclick

• Is Today’s India a Threat to Gandhi and Ambedkar’s Idea of a Secular Nation?
  ICF Team & Newsclick

• Romila Thapar in Conversation with Rajan Gurukkal
  The renowned historian discusses her methodology of research

• The Lynching in West Bengal that didn’t Make too Many Headlines in 2017
  Newsclick and ICF Team

• Where the Line is Drawn: Crossing Boundaries in Occupied Palestine
  Raja Shehadeh in conversation with Githa Hariharan

• अरुणा रॉय : कहानियों, नाटकों और गानों के ज़रिये करें जनवादी राजनीति का प्रचार
  Newsclick & ICF Team

• Jan Sahitya Parv: Celebrating People’s Literature
  Newsclick & ICF Team

• The story of three Bengali Muslim households which lost their men to lynching in 2017
  Souradeep Roy

• Origin Myths and the Early Indian Historical Tradition
  Romila Thapar

• “The citizens are facing the worst time in the hands of right wing”: Raosaheb Kasbe

• Cinema of, for, by the People
  Souradeep Roy

• Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home
  Penny Johnson in conversation with Apoorva Gautam

• Meena Menon: “Our perceptions about Pakistan are coloured according to stereotypes”
  The writer and journalist in conversation with Yogesh S

• Parvaaz: Making it New
  Apoorva Gautam & Souradeep Roy

• The Cultural Resistance to Rohith’s Institutional Murder
  ICF Team

• Government’s Apathy Towards Rohith’s Legacy
  ICF Team

• The Historian and the Epic
  Romila Thapar

• Saheb, Bibi aur Palestine? Bollywood Must Make it Clear if it Stands with Colonialism or with Freedom
  Souradeep Roy

• Besieging the Siege: Report from the Protest Against Benjamin Netanyahu’s Visit to India
  ICF Team

• Govind Pansare: Towards an Active Channel for Political Education
  Megha Pansare

• The Communist International and its Impact on Asia
  Vijay Prashad

• #NotoNetanyahu: We know Netanyahu and Modi love each other, but how much did the RSS love Zionism?
  Sukumar Muralidharan

• Perils of an Imagined Enemy
  Rahamath Tarikere

• Somnath Waghmare on Bhima Koregaon and the Fight against Brahminism
  The filmmaker in conversation with Lourdes M Supriya

• Easterine Kire on Writing Outside the Box
  The writer in conversation with Souradeep Roy

• Some Thoughts on the Inscriptions of Aśoka 
  Romila Thapar

• How dalits such as Kusuma Dharmanna and Vagiri Amosu rejected the upper-caste nationalist movement
  Chinnaiah Jangam

• Watch: Battle of Bhima Koregaon: An Unending Journey
  ICF Team

• Karnataka: Another Gujarat of the South?
  Yogesh S

• SAHMAT’s Jashn-e-Daura: Remembering Safdar and the Babri Masjid
  ICF Team

• Have TV dance shows, neo-liberalism’s baby, challenged the hierarchy of classical dance?
  Pallabi Chakravorty

• Looking back at 2017: Two books which either got banned or almost got banned
  ICF Team

• Journey to Jerusalem: A Poet Faces the Separation Wall
  Meena Alexander

• Savitribai: The Legacy of a Much Loved Teacher 
  H S Anupama

• The Ṛgveda: Encapsulating Social Change*
  Romila Thapar

• Possible Communism
  Vijay Prashad

• #OurGauri: Murder of Gauri Lankesh Legitimises Violence
  B. Shreepada Bhat

• 2017 — The Year Gender Justice Took a Back Seat
  ICF Team

• 2017: A Look at Some of the Movies That Came Under Fire This Year
  Lourdes M Supriya

• An Open Letter to Anant Kumar Hegde Sahib by Devanoora Mahadeva
  Devnoora Mahadeva

• Meena Menon: “Put the internet to better use and do not spread hatred”
  Meena Menon in conversation with Yogesh S

• “Borders only become borders when cartographies come into existence” – Professor Romila Thapar
  Somok Roy

• The Rise of the Small Town in Bollywood
  Shoma A. Chatterji

• Normalising the Abnormal Is the Strategy of BJP
  Yogesh S

• “हम एक है तो करोडों है, वरना कु छ भी नहीं…”
  Megha Pansare on the Bhopal Jan Utsav

• How Ghalib Was Influenced by the Bhakti Movement
  Gopi Chand Narang, translated by Surinder Deol

• On National and Cultural Independence
  Makarand Sathe

• 2017 — A Year of Resistance: Four times writers, actors, academics and artists stood up against the government
  ICF Team

• Parivathana Rally of BJP in Karnataka Is to Spread Its Hindutva Ideology
  Yogesh S

• Looking Back at 2017: Listen to Writers Discussing Politics and Cultures of Resistance
  ICF Team

• Imagined Religious Communities?
  Romila Thapar

• Sevanti Ninan: “There is a still a great scarcity of research on media practice in India”
  Sevanti Ninan, editor of The Hoot in conversation with Souradeep Roy

• Meena Menon: “Is saying yes to the ruling government nationalism?”
  Meena Menon in conversation with Yogesh S

• Notes from the Tenth Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer Memorial Lecture
  Sneha Chowdhury

• Remembering the Bombay Riots Part III
  Meena Menon

• Divya Bharathi: “I don’t want people to be moved by my work, I want them to be politicised”
  Souradeep Roy in conversation with the documentary film maker

• #OurGauri: Gauri’s Resolute Life
  Teesta Setalvad

• Challenging Communalism, Challenging History – The Work of Romila Thapar
  Neeladri Bhattacharya

• BJP’s Plan for Karnataka: Communal Polarisation
  Yogesh S

• Ruth Vanita: “The courtesan in popular Hindi cinema has been a marginalised figure in cinema studies.”
  The academic and translator in conversation with Souradeep Roy

• Going Beyond the Threshold
  Shanta Gokhale in conversation with Yogesh S

• History of Communal Violence in Karnataka and the Case of Communal Violence in Uttara Kannada in December 2017
  Prudhviraj Rupawat and Yogesh S

• Tragedy and Eclipse
  Adil Jussawalla writes about the importance of dramatic tragedy in a world torn apart by hatred after the planned demolition of Babri Masjid

• The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill 2016 criminalises Transgender Persons
  ICF Team and Newsclick

• One City, Five Commotions: Memories of the Dilli We Lost
  Intizar Husain, translated into English by Ghazala Jamil & Faiz Ullah

• Why an Indian theatre artist decided to boycott the Israel Festival to be held in 2018
  ICF Team

• The New India
  Nayantara Sahgal

• The Indian Cultural Forum welcomes the Jharkhand government’s decision to lift the ban on Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s book
  ICF Team

• Remembering the Bombay Riots Part II: The Story of Teacher, Journalist Firoz Ashraf
  Meena Menon

• Remembering the Bombay Riots Part I
  Meena Menon

• Death of CBI Judge B H Loya: Statement by Concerned Citizens Demanding a Time-bound Public Enquiry Commission

• The Fallout of the Planned Demolition of Babri Masjid: Analysing the Violence in 1992-93
  Ram Puniyani

• #OctoberRevolutionSeries: How Lenin Schooled His Dilly-Dallying Comrades
  V I Lenin

• Watch all that Happened on the First Day of the #BhopalJanUtsav
  ICF Team

• What Our Self-Declared Nationalists (Read the Hindu Right) Owe to British Historians for their Claims on Babri Masjid or Ram Temple
  Souradeep Roy

• Bhopal Jan Utsav: A Festival of Hope and Solidarity Celebrating Reason and Diversity
  Organising Committee Bhopal Jan Utsav

• Ancient India did not Identify Itself as Hindu: Marathi Writer Raosaheb Kasbe at Bhopal Jan Utsav
  ICF Team

• Song for Gauri : “They’ll try and crush us, they cannot hush us…”
  Arati Rao

• #OurGauri: “For her, movements and friendship were interdependent.”
  K Phaniraaj

• Revisiting Caste through Karnatic Music
  ICF Team

• Kunwar Narain: The Poet of Love and Deep Reflection
  Mangalesh Dabral

• “Poetry is my refuge”: Perumal Murugan
  Githa Hariharan and Kannan Sundaram in conversation with the writer

• Listen to T M Krishna Singing Perumal Murugan’s Verses of Exile
  ICF Team

• #Our Gauri: “Gauri fought her struggles peacefully without letting the world know about it.”
  Krishna Prasad

• #OctoberRevolutionSeries: How Lenin Asked His Comrades to Take Their Shirts off and Declare Themselves a Communist Party
  Prakash Karat

• The Padmavati Story: Romanticising History or Historicising Romance?
  Shoma A Chatterji

• Why Asking Bands to Not Perform in Israel is Not an Attack on Freedom of Speech and Expression

• The Padmavati Controversy: Behind the Bastions of Memory
  Somok Roy

• Jyotiba Phule: The Method of Rational Insult
  Soumyabrata Choudhury

• #OctoberRevolutionSeries: What has the October Revolution Done for Women in the West?
  Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai

• Lakshmibai Tilak, My Old Friend
  Shanta Gokhale

• A New Language That Spoke of Change
  Lourdes M Supriya

• #Our Gauri: Gauri Lankesh Over the Years
  Dr. Vasu

• प्रेम और दार्शनिकता का कवि
  मंगलेश डबराल

• How was Modernism in Indian Art?
  Pithamber R. Polsani

• A Tribute to Gauri Lankesh at the Bangalore Literature Festival 2017
  ICF Team

• #OctoberRevolutionSeries: Alexandra Kollontai’s Ideas on Sexuality and the Socialist State
  Parvathi Menon

• How the Salwa Judum Looted and Killed Villagers in Kondasawali Village in Chattisgarh
  ICF Team

• Sexual Harassment in India: An Illustrated Essay
  Yamuna Matheswaran

• Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz on the Freedom of Ideas, Subversive Art and Censorship

• Sanjay Kak on the Undeclared Emergency in India and His Edited Book Witness

• Stories, Like Poems, Are Never Finished
  Ambai

• Making the City Hers
  Githa Hariharan

• P. Sainath: “PARI is meant to be a living book…”
  ICF Team

• It’s Not My Job to Tell You That It’s Okay to Be Gay
  Arvind Narrain and Vinay Chandran

• Mahapadav: Prominent Intellectuals Support Workers, Demand Action By PM

• Voices of Dissent in Maharashtra
  Ramu Ramanathan

• In Times of “Bharat Mata”, Revisiting Mother India on the 60th Year of the Film’s Release
  Shoma A. Chatterji

• Understanding the Marxism in Gandhi’s Fight Against Imperialism
  Uday Mehta in conversation with Akeel Bilgrami

• #FreedomToDraw: Cartoons of Nehru and Indira Gandhi by E P Unny, R K Laxman and K Shankar Pillai
  ICF Team

• Elegy for a Lost Friend: Gauri Lankesh (1962- 2017)
  Pushpamala N.

• #50YearsOfNaxalbari: Sanjay Kak on the Making of His Documentary Red Ant Dream
  Souradeep Roy in conversation with the filmmaker

• Letter from a Woman Writer
  An excerpt from On the Far Side of Memory

• Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar: “I don’t like being labelled as an adivasi writer”
  Souradeep Roy in conversation with the writer and doctor

• Bheda: The First Odia Dalit Novel
  Akhila Naik

• Satyajit Rath: “There is an inevitable connection between high culture and low culture”
  Githa Hariharan in conversation with the scientist

• Read Soibam Haripriya’s Article that Has Recently Come Under Attack
  Soibam Haripriya

• Indira Gandhi National Integration Award Acceptance Speech of T M Krishna
  T M Krishna

• Independent Publishing in India: Aainanagar
  Souradeep Roy in conversation with Nandini Dhar

• Are ‘Anti Nationals’ Traitors, Or Are Those Groups who Call Others ‘Anti-Nationals’ Traitors to the Idea of Independent India?
  Introduction to Krishan Chander's novel translated by Rakhshanda Jalil

• Danish Husain: “It is not easy for theatre practitioners or writers to return awards they’ve earned after years of practicing their craft.”
  Souradeep Roy in conversation with the actor and director

• Adoor Gopalakrishnan and His Films
  Pradip Biswas

• Narendra Nayak on the Karnataka Anti-Superstition Bill – “Something is better than nothing”

• #OurGauri: My Salaam to Gauri…
  Noor Shridhar

• #OctoberRevolutionSeries: Freedom’s Past, Freedom’s Future
  Githa Hariharan

• The Classmate
  P. Lankesh

• Our Appaji, Girija Devi
  Somok Roy

• #OurGauri: “What is justice Gauri? do you gain any profit out of it?”
  Bolwar Mahammad Kunhi

• Of Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness: Reading Ali Smith’s Booker Nominated Novel Autumn
  Ilina Acharya

• How does the BJP Control Educational Institutions in India?
  Achin Vanaik

• Terror in the Time of the Yogi-Modi Regime
  ICF Team

• Our Seditious Tongues
  Souradeep Roy in Conversation with Suraj Sanap of Lawyers Collective

• #OurGauri: Why Did They Kill Gauri?
  Dr. S R Aboobakar

• Reading “Ordinary” Dalit Poetry of Anger and Pain
  Ashok Gopal

• Fireworks and Firearms: The Festival of Lights in the Mughal Court
  Somok Roy

• #OctoberRevolutionSeries: Studying György Lukács, Rosa Luxemburg and Nikolai Bukharin through Letters, Diaries and Notes
  Sruti M D in conversation with Sobhanlal Datta Gupta

• #OurGauri: “Gauri came across as firm, harsh and very serious, but she was very tender at heart”
  M.S. Ashadevi

• What do Najeeb’s Mother, Students, and Activists Have to Say About CBI’s Inaction Over the Missing Student?

• “The idea of popular science is an authoritarian version”: Satyajit Rath
  Githa Hariharan in conversation with Satyajit Rath

• Last Days of the Mahatma
  Jagan Phadnis

• #OurGauri: Gauri in Gandhi’s Light
  B. M. Basheer

• Ishti: A Cinematic Metaphor For Our Times
  T R Joy

• With Dwijen Bandyopadhyay’s Passing, the Cultural Left in Bengal Loses One of its Most Treasured Thespians
  Souradeep Roy

• Troubled Destinies: Heritage in the Time of Hindutva
  Mila Samdub

• A Hindu Speaks
  Nayantara Sahgal

• #OctoberRevolutionMonth: Remembering the October Revolution by Rebuilding the Socialist Imagination
  Prabir Purkayastha

• Remembering R.K. Narayan
  GJV Prasad

• #OurGauri: “Gauri was a Unique Woman in Karnataka’s History.”
  B. Chandre Gowda

• Protesting the Assassination of Gauri Lankesh
  ICF team

• #OctoberRevolutionMonth: The Fight for The Party During the Ebb Of the Revolution

• Pankaj Tripathi: A Work in Progress
  Zeeshan Akhtar

• History is an Unending Dialogue between the Past and the Present
  Romila Thapar in conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo & Neeladri Bhattacharya

• The Karnataka Anti-Superstition Act and its Impact
  Narendra Nayak

• Rising Higher
  Vishnu Khare

• “The word defeat is not to be found in my dictionary…”
  Githa Hariharan

• Karwan-e-Mohabbat’s Long Journey Across India will Culminate in Porbandar on 2 October 2017
  ICF team

• We Are Not Yet a Hindu Rashtra, We Are a Secular, Democratic Republic: Nayantara Sahgal

• A Cow Mania Has Been Set in Motion in India by the BJP: Nayantara Sahgal

• Blind-Folded Seeing: Turning “Average” Kids into “Super Geniuses”
  Narendra Nayak

• Debate is Being Crushed and Dissent Outlawed in Today’s India: Nayantara Sahgal

• Independent Publishing in India: Tara Books
  In conversation with V Geetha

• P Sainath: “India is in the grip of a serious social regression…”
  ICF team

• “Keep Asking the Questions”: PSBT’s Open Frame Film Festival
  Rahee Punyashloka

• PAHAL – a Group that Calls for Cultural Protests for a Democratic Gorkhaland

• Remembering Kate Millet and Her Sexual Politics
  Yogesh S

• Protest for Rohingyas in Delhi
  A Report by the ICF Team & Newsclick

• After Maharashtra, UP Government Proposes to Remove the Mughals from History Textbooks
  Sneha Chowdhury

• Sarayu Srivatsa on Dom Moraes and their Travelogue Out of God’s Oven
  Souradeep Roy in conversation with the writer and architect

• “Gauri Lankesh’s murder was the most vicious because she was a woman”: Ganesh Devy
  Githa Hariharan in conversation with the linguist

• The Claimants of Supernatural Powers in Rural India
  Narendra Nayak

• Nafrat Ke Khilaf Dilli Ki Awaaz
  Newsclick & Indian Cultural Forum

• When the Moon Shines by Day
  Nayantara Sahgal’s New Novel on the Making and Unmaking of India

• A Commemorative Edition of Gauri Lankesh Patrike
  Extracts from the commemorative edition of Gauri Lankesh Patrike, September 12, 2017, translated by Yogesh and Akhilesh Jayaram

• “We will not put our pens down…”
  Writers Respond to Threat from Hindu Aikya Vedi

• Living Political Commitment: Gauri Lankesh and Her Patrike
  ICF Team

• Ismat Chughtai — Rebel, Iconoclast
  Ritu Menon

• Friends and Family Respond to Gauri Lankesh’s Assassination
  A Newsclick and ICF Report

• Living Political Commitment: Gauri Lankesh and Her Patrike
  ICF Team

• The Cultural Fraternity Condemns Gauri Lankesh’s Murder

• We Have Lost Gauri; We Do Not Want to Lose Anyone Else
  Megha Pansare in conversation with Souradeep Roy

• From Kalburgi to Gauri Lankesh: Silencing Rational Voices in Karnataka
  Translated from the original Kannada by Yogesh S

• Poem to Rightwingers of the Pistol-toting Kind
  Keki Daruwalla

• Writers, Academics Respond to Gauri Lankesh’s Murder: K Satchidanandan

• Writers, Academics Respond to Gauri Lankesh’s Murder: Nayantara Sahgal

• Protest Meetings Against Gauri Lankesh’s Murder Across India
  ICF Team

• Writers, Academics Respond to Gauri Lankesh’s Murder: Ananya Vajpeyi

• They Cannot Silence Us All
  Statement from the Indian Writers' Forum

• They Sang through the Dark Times: Nakul Singh Sawhney’s Latest Documentary Savitri’s Sisters
  Souradeep Roy

• Poem on Demonetisation
  Keki Daruwalla

• Anitha is Killed by Modi’s Homogenising Obsession
  Anand Teltumbde

• Chandni Begum: A Novel
  Qurratulain Hyder

• Demonetisation: Modi’s Ego Trip Destroyed India’s Growth Story
  Anand Teltumbde

• Three Students Respond to the Triple Talaq Judgement
  In conversation with Heba Ahmed, Feba Rasheed, and Zainab Amal

• In Dera Sacha Sauda, the Burden of History
  Kartik Maini

• Phule as a Radical Educator: Reading a Nineteenth Century Political Play
  Ashok Gopal

• Private Lives and Public Law: How the Privacy Judgement Bats for the Individual and the Collective
  Mihir Samson

• Ladai Prakashana — Making Literature of Protest
  ICF team

• Independent Publishing in India: LeftWord Books
  Souradeep Roy in conversation with Vijay Prashad

• “It is momentous and historic”: Anand Grover
  ICF team in conversation with Anand Grover

• ईरानी औरतों की कहानियां 
  संजय जोशी

• Indira Jaising: “It’s tragic that there were no women in the SC Bench that delivered the Triple Talaq Judgement”

• The Cursed Practice of Made Made Snana
  Rajendra Chenni

• An Interview with Indira Jaising on the Triple Talaq Judgement

• On Literary Activism
  Amit Chaudhuri

• Karnataka’s Opposition to Right-Wing Hindu Fundamentalism
  ICF team

• Roundtable with P. Sainath
  ICF team

• Liberating the Sitas of India
  Telugu Writer Volga on Sisterhood and Mythology

• Remembering Sova Sen, Legendary Actress of Political Theatre in Bengal
  Himani Banerji

• On Dalit Autobiographies

• What is it Like to Live Without the Mughals?
  ICF Team

• Panel to Probe Rohith Vemula’s Death: A Cynical Denial of Caste Discrimination
  ICF Team

• Between Two Measures of Mindfulness: Vijay Nambisan (1963-2017)
  Rizio Yohannan Raj

• “More than one world”

• #WomenFreedomFighters: Remembering Ahilya Rangnekar
  Sruti M D

• "Without My Imaginings What Is?"
  Remembering Vijay Nambisan
  K. Satchidanandan 

• Performing Oedipus in Satkahania Village, West Bengal
  Souradeep Roy

• दलित छवियों से क्यों डरते हैं वे?
  संजय जोशी

• Fearless Godavari Parulekar Led the Warli Tribes in the Freedom Movement
  Sruti M D

• Poems by Marathi Writer F.M. Shahajinde
  Translated by Ashok Gopal

• मैनुअल स्केवेंजिंग से हुई मौत – कहाँ है इंसाफ?
  भाषा सिंह

• Remembering Kuvempu in Times of Unreason
  Rajendra Chenni

• The Syncretic History of Music in India
  Reginald Massey

• “I resemble everyone/ but myself”: Revisiting A K Ramanujan and the Controversy Over “Three Hundred Ramanayas”
  Souradeep Roy

• Appeal: Stop the Hounding of Writers on Social Media
  Indian Writer's Forum

• Remembering PM Bhargava: A Champion of Scientific Temper
  ICF Team

• “The newly dead is an unknown quantity”: Remembering Eunice de Souza
  Two poems by the poet translated into Hindi by Kanupriya Dhingra

• Warning: Dangerous Poet!
  The Rightwing Plan to Drop Paash from Textbooks

• Have We Lost Our Sense of Humour?
  ICF Team in interview with Vishwajyoti Ghosh

• Naiyer Masud: When Comes Such Another?
  Rakhshanda Jalil

• Independent Publishing in India: Thema
  ICF Team in interview with Samik Bandyopadhyay and Sudeshna Banerjee

• Naiyer Masud and the Magic of the Absurd 
  Rahman Abbas

• “Scientific temper is what elite politics denies in our humanness…”
  Githa Hariharan in conversation with Satyajit Rath

• Contentious Heritage: The Case of Ahmedabad
  Heba Ahmed

• Writers’ Appeal: Join the March for Science on August 9, 2017
  Indian Writers' Forum

• India’s Fascist Democracy
  Anand Teltumbde

• I am Ravana: Ramaprasad Banik’s Bengali Play that Speaks Against Communalism
  Souradeep Roy

• On the Attack on Minorities, Shabnam Hashmi says “Nothing surprises me. It is only the beginning.”
  ICF Team in interview with Shabnam Hashmi

• Remembering the 12 Mothers of Manipur on the Anniversary of Meira Paibis
  Teresa Rahman

• Desecrations in Goa
  Maria Couto

• ICSSR, a Premier Body No Longer Allowed to be Premier
  Sruti M. D.

• The Complex Nexus of Fascism, Communalism and Casteism
  A Talk by Anand Teltumbde

• Is Congress Acting as a B Team to BJP in Karnataka?
  ICF Team in interview with K P Suresha

• Who is Excluded in Agriculture?
  Sandeep Chachra, Amandeet Kaur and P. Raghu

• Criminalising Historical Writing
  ICF Team in conversation with Ashok V Shettar

• The Long March to Eliminate Manual Scavenging
  Bezwada Wilson and Bhasha Singh

• ईद मुबारक कहूँ किसे?
  मनीषी जानी

• Lynching Democratic Values and the Spirit of the Constitution
  Atamjit Singh

• From Godhra to Una
  Harsh Mander

• In Dispute
  Rajendra Chenni

• Is this to be the future of India?
  Romila Thapar, Romi Khosla and Kalpana Khosla

• It was Loud and Clear – “Don’t Kill in My Name”
  ICF Team

• Nandini Sundar Responds to the BJP-backed NDTF’s Protests Against Her Book
  ICF Team

• The Cultural Fraternity Protests the Unmaking of India
  Mallika Sarabhai,Geetanjali Shree and Mandakranta Sen

• Writers Protest the Unmaking of India
  Nayantara Sahgal,Adil Jussawalla,Keki Daruwalla, Jerry Pinto,Chaman Lal,Danish Husain and Ganesh Devy

• #NotInMyName #NoMoreLynching
  NotInMyName

• On Eid ul Fitr, a Poem for the Late 15-Year-Old Hafiz Junaid
  Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee

• Towards an Understanding of the University
  Saitya Brata Das

• Our House of Love
  Ananya Vajpeyi

• India and the Plurality of Dissent
  Ashok Vajpeyi

• “Don’t call me a dalit writer if a brahmin is not called a brahmin writer.”
  ICF Team in conversation with Imayam

• Who is the Dalit?
  Saitya Brata Das

• Achhe Din Roundup: The Week that Was
  ICF Team

• Who is a Professor? The Criterion of Justice
  Soumyabrata Choudhury

• Why Was Dalit JNU Professor Saitya Brata Das Denied Promotion by the VC?

• Yet Another Gag on the Right to Artistic Freedom and Expression
  ICF Team

• Know Your Independent Media: Raiot
  ICF Team in conversation with Gertrude Lamare and Tarun Bhartiya

• आदिवासी महिला कवि होने का मतलब, जसिन्ता केरकेट्टा की जुबानी
  जसिन्ता केरकेट्टा

• Karnataka’s Syncretic Culture is being Appropriated by the Hindutva Forces
  ICF Team in interview with Professor Muzaffar Assadi

• Vijay Prashad on Neoliberalism as a Cultural Project
  Sruti M D in conversation with Vijay Prashad

• “Are the murderers of Kalburgi not being nabbed because they’re from the Sanatan Sanstha?”: Keki Daruwalla
  Souradeep Roy in conversation with Keki N Daruwalla

• ‘It meant that my writing belonged to… a subspecies called “women’s writing”.’
  Shashi Deshpande

• “When will this plot be foiled?” Remembering the Revolutionary Somen Chanda on His Birth Anniversary
  Sneha Chowdhury

• The Politics of Hate: A Review of Alok Vaid-Menon’s Performance
  Ashley Tellis

• Mohandas Nemishrey Discusses Dalit Participation in Sahitya Akademi
  ICF Team in interview with Mohandas Nemishrey

• Lest we Forget the Slow Murder of G.N. Saibaba
  ICF Team

• ‘Writing is my prayer or, in Goethe’s words, my contemplation…’
  Dalip Kaur Tiwana

• How a WhatsApp Forward was Used to Provoke Violence Against a Professor
  Janani

• 35 Years of Teaching: Writer Bama Recollects Inequalities in Education
  ICF Team in interview with Bama

• The Violence of Psychic Scripts: A Review of Loev
  Ashley Tellis

• What the Fact Finding Report on the Assault of Professor Waghmare in KMC College, Khopoli, Tells Us
  ICF Team

• Analysing the Political Economy of the Dalit Struggle
  Kitdor W.

• Abhidha Celebrates 25 Years of Poetry Movement in India
  Nabina Das

• [Book Extract] A Girl Swallowed by a Tree: Lotha Naga Tales Retold
  Nzanmongi Jasmine Patton

• G.N. Saibaba – The Teacher I Could Not Have
  Souradeep Roy

• The Nervous Energy of Sanjay Rajoura’s Comedy That Takes on Caste and Class
  Ashley Tellis

• Celebrating May Day with Books & Performances at the Iconic May Day Bookstore in Delhi

• Nayantara Sahgal: “The RSS Wants a Hindu Pakistan”
  Souradeep Roy in conversation with Nayantara Sahgal

• Are Triple Talaq and Personal Laws Immune from Constitutional Checks?
  The Invisible Lawyers Team

• Laxman Gaikwad Discusses Who are Dalits and What is Dalit Literature

• [Book Extract] Including the Socially Excluded
  Rahul Ramagundam

• Achintya Biswas Makes a Short Survey of Bengali Dalit Literature

• Art as Evidence in Court Rooms
  Kitdor W.

• Mungekar: “Government Invokes Ambedkar, but Denies Dalits Funding”

• Dalit Writer Siddalingaiah: “My Poetry is Protest, My Autobiography Humour”

• Theatre Today: Punjabi

• Living Ambedkar Jayanti: In Conversation with Vira Sathidar

• Theatre Today: Hindi

• The Importance of Metaphor

• Roundtable with Romila Thapar

• Remembering Another Rama on Ram Navami
  Githa Hariharan

• Theatre Today: Manipur

• “Urdu Hindustan ki zabaan hai…”

• Indian Memories of Meat – Mutton Kofta from Kashmir

• What Does it Mean to be a Women Poet, Dancer, Writer and Journalist?

• Unholy War
  Nayantara Sahgal

• One Year After Husband’s Murder, Kausalya Strengthens Fight Against Honour Killing
  Sruti M D

• ‘Does it help to have a woman editor cut a blatantly sexist film? Not so much.’
  Lara Bhalla, Arundhathi Subramaniam, Neha Kumar, Madhur Kumar, Shweta Jain

• Writing in Troubled Times: Reflections of an Indian Writer
  Geetanjali Shree

• Women We Admire: Mridula Koshy

• Attacks on Writers and Scholars Continue
  Vidhya

• Some Fine Photographs by Derek Walcott

• Poem by Maaz Bin Bilal

• Derek Walcott’s Nobel Prize Lecture

• Women We Admire: Maya Ghosh, Veteran Actor of Bengali Theatre

• Muthukrishnan’s Suicide Brings Back the Prevalence of Structural Discrimination in Institutions of Higher Education
  Vidhya

• Empire and the Overpass
  Rafia Zakaria

• Padmavati Set Vandalised Because Karni Sena Was Not Punished for Attacking Bhansali Earlier
  Sruti M D

• ‘A woman should never stay behind a man; we must stay ahead of them’
  Francine Kay, Reena Devi Harnot, Nargis Vasundhara

• This Old World Is a New World and a Bold World for Me…
  Gayeti Singh, Saba Hasan, Samina, Usha Kumar, Jyoti Bhalla, Megha Patnaik

• Women We Admire

• “Sex is Just One Part of Lipstick Under My Burkha“: Ratna Pathak
  ICF interviews Ratna Pathak on Lipstick Under My Burkha

• Baby Halder, Domestic Help and Writer on Writing Her Memoirs

• “ABVP Kaahe So Creepy?”: Hear Students of Delhi University from the Save DU March

• “So far the new Nagaland CM seems Silent on Women’s Reservation” – Monalisa Changkija

• [Book Extract] Interpreting the World to Change It

• “Media Must Report the Truth” — Saeed Naqvi

• How Should Rape be Reported?

• Aamhi Saare Pansare

• [Book Extract] The Radical Impulse Music in the Tradition of the Indian People’s Theatre Association

• Freedom, Justice & Resistance in Kashmir

• “No, you don’t remember Kunan Poshpora, or rapes in Kashmir”: Essar Batool

• Reservations for Naga Women in Urban Local Bodies is a Must!
  Sruti M D

• Bombay Cosmopolitanism and the Poetry of Arun Kolatkar

• An Interview with Teesta Setalvad and an Extract from her Memoir Foot Soldier of the Constitution

• Why are the Murderers of Dabholkar, Kalburgi and Pansare Still Absconding?

• Will Valentine’s Day Soon Be Wiped from Public Memory?
  Sruti M.D.

• “Censorship outside of the Censor Board is the problem in Maharashtra”: Rajeev Naik

• The Heinous Crimes of Afzal Guru and the Inability of Words
  Souradeep Roy

• What Does it Mean to be Inclusive? 
  Nayantara Sahgal

• Bollywood must Condemn Caste, Not Just the Attack on Sanjay Leela Bhansali
  Aparajit

• “Chhattisgarh Police sarkar ke goonde hain”: Soni Sori

• F U Kalluri: Going, going… gone?
  ICF Team

• “We want the bare minimum. We want the rule of law in Bastar”: Uma Chakravarti

• “I will continue to work in Bastar”: Bela Bhatia

• “It’s almost impossible to do political theatre in Maharashtra”: Makarand Sathe

• Bezwada Wilson on Eradicating Manual Scavenging

• A State Without a Constitution
  Vidhya

• Press Conference on the Emergency in Bastar

• Bezwada Wilson & TM Krishna in conversation with Nilanjana Roy

• What the Nation Really Needs to Know: Extracts from JNU’s Nationalism Lectures

• Learning from John Berger
  Geeta Kapur

• They Chose Death over Humiliation
  Vidhya & Tilak Tewari

• “John Berger’s Collected Poems will always be in print in India”

• Remembering Safdar Hashmi (12 April 1954 – 2 January 1989)
  An ICF Report from Jhandapur

• From Khairlanji to Kopardi, a Poem by Neeraja
  Translated by Shashi Deshpande

• “The Ambedkarite movement in India is about the power of articulation”
  In conversation with Y.S. Alone

• Seasons of Our Being: Punjab On Two Sides of the Wagah
  Dalip Kaur Tiwana

• Remembering Chandralekha — Dancer, Feminist — Through Photographs

• “No Hindu Rashtra”: Nayantara Sahgal

• How has Demonetisation Affected the Tibetan Refugee Settlements in Delhi?

• “Making the National Anthem Compulsory in Cinema Halls is a Call to Violence”: Sadanand Menon

• In Fear of Silence: A Conversation With Megha Pansare
  ICF Team

• How did Demonetisation Affect Local Handicraft Sellers?

• Extract from The Past of the Outcaste: Readings in Dalit History

• Book Extract: A Feminist Foremother:
  Critical Essays on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

• Dakshinayan: The Long Path Towards Reason
  Vidhya

• সাক্ষাতকার: শমীক বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায় ও সৌরদীপ রায়

• Poem on Demonetisation: What Colour, Money? Ballad of the Commoners
  R. Umamaheshwari (Veena)

• “For me it has always been about the ‘interior landscape’…”
  ICF speaks to Manohar Shetty

• We Don’t Need No Surgical Strikes

• From Sukh Dukkh’er Saathi (Companion in Love and Sorrow)
  Utpal Kumar Basu

• Three Poems
  K. Satchidanandan

• Ghalib’s Ghost
  and other poems

• Reflections of a Cartographer
  Manohar Shetty

• Another Way
  Arundhathi Subramaniam

• Of Peace and War
  Keki Daruwalla

• Listen to Our Poets on War!

• Lokayat: Fighting Fascism
  Vidhya

• “The Fascists, in Germany too, first came after the universities”

• Ayodhya or Saket: The Politics of Ram Temple

• पर्दे पर उभरता ‘प्रतिरोध का सिनेमा’

• My Protest
  Dalip Kaur Tiwana

• What is to be done about Indian Universities?: Reflections from Concerned Teachers

• “Any developing society has to be built on the back of a robust public school system”

• “The drought of Bara is everywhere upon us”

• Speak On, We Are With You!
  Statement from the Indian Writers’ Forum

• Terror of Law: The Gujarat Protection of Internal Security Act (GPISA)
  Vidhya

• सांस्कृतिक अवमूल्यन की राजनीतिक साज़िश
  प्रसिद्ध कवि अशोक वाजपेयी से ख़ास चर्चा

• Chalo Udupi: Food of Our Choice, Land is Our Right
  ICF Team

• We Condemn the Attacks on IPTA in Indore
  ICF Team and Janwadi Lekhak Sangh

• “There are some who shoot the messenger; there are some who sue. The casualty in both cases is democracy.”
  Neha Kirpal in conversation with Subir Ghosh and Paranjoy Guha Thakurta

• Book Extract: Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora?

• Standing up for Equal Rights

• “A huge compromise has been made by our so-called intellectuals.”
  ICF speaks to Teesta Setalvad

• Tell the Tale, Urvashi
  Revisiting Dalip Kaur Tiwana's Popular Punjabi Novel in English

• Rape, Beef, and Gau Rakshaks: A Ground Report from Mewat
  via Newsclick

• In Search of an Ethical Life
  U.R. Ananthamurthy's Bara, translated by Chandan Gowda

• “99% of the victims of gender violence were killed afterwards.”
  ICF speaks to Teesta Setalvad

• India: Liberal Democracy and the Extreme Right
  Aijaz Ahmad

• National Protest Marking One Year Since M.M. Kalburgi’s Assassination

• “We need to detach art from socio-political constructions”
  T. M. Krishna's Magsaysay Address

• “There is a subversive counter-current in Valmiki’s Ramayana”

• “You can silence me, but you cannot silence the truth”

• ‘Assassinations will not defeat reason’

• Writers in Search of an Oasis: Rahman Abbas’ Novel Cleared of Obscenity Charges

• Indian Nationalism v/s Hindu Nationalism
  A. G. Noorani

• Tribal Voices: The Bhasha Research and Publication Centre

• Saffronising and Corporatising Indian Education: Critique of the National Educational Policy 2016 Draft

• Read Widerstand – the Magazine Banned by Pondicherry University

• Book Extract: from ‘Bollywood’

• A Holy Grail Called Sanjeevani

• Mahasweta Devi: Living for Justice, Living Forever

• Things the Left Needs to do Right

• A Life in Thala: The World of Kavalam Narayana Panikkar

• Are you O, P, W or D.W.?

• Freedom of Speech in the University

  

• In the Dark

• Face/Off: The Unmaking of India in Bisada

• Statement on Kashmir from Academics, Writers, Artists and Filmmakers

• Kashmir: Cry, my Beloved Country

• The World in Many Guises

• The Word ‘Rashtra’

• Perumal Murugan: A Parable of our Times

• Imprisoning Minds

• Indian Writers’ Forum: “Ensure Kalburgi’s murderers are brought to book…”

• In Favour of Free Speech: Full Minutes of the Madras High Court Ruling in Perumal Murugan’s Case

• The Artist as Activist

• Yes, the Adivasi Will Not Dance!

• Why Has the Audience Gone “Wild”?

• As We Remember Eleanor Zelliot

• Extract from Words Matter: Writings Against Silence

• Sedition and the Right to Freedom of Expression

• ‘An acceleration of the policies we have been struggling against’

• Can a Language be “Anti-National”?
  ICF Team

• The Tall Claims of the Foreign Education Bill

• Avaaz Do! — A SAHMAT Poster Exhibition Calls for Solidarity

• Mapping and Conserving our Languages: the People’s Linguistic Survey

• Book Extract: from The Making of Exile

• The Sanatan Dharma Recipe for Historical Writing and Research

• Reader, Translator, Friend: Remembering Lakshmi Holmström

• I am language

• “University research will be reduced to the level of market surveys”

• Hindutva versus Hinduism

• Keeping Higher Education Free and Alive in Gujarat

• The Gopalaswami Panel Recommendations: Teaching a Regressive Science in Sanskrit

• ‘Our society has become deeply dehumanised’

• How Do We Help the Arts Flourish?

• Book Extract: from The Partition of Bengal: Fragile Borders and New Identities

• Remembering the Real Ambedkar

• Ambedkar and Freedom

• The NCPUL’s Attack on Free Speech

• On the Legacy of Bhagat Singh

• Resolving Binaries: Remembering ONV Kurup (1931-2016)

• A Fig Leaf Called ‘Vandalism’

• Writing the Age

• Rajmohan Gandhi: ‘The threat to our constitution’

• Interview: Gauhar Raza speaks out against Zee’s attack

• “Hope against hope”: a talk by Ashok Vajpeyi

• Mourid Barghouti in conversation with Githa Hariharan

• On the Liberal Indian Academic Living in Fear Today

• Interview with Soni Sori

• Book Extract: From The Thirteenth Place: Positionality as Critique in the Art of Navjot Altaf 

• “Treat dalit women as equals before the law”: Radhika Vemula on Women’s Day

• Caste, Religion and Lived Culture

• Azadi from the Modi government: Kanhaiya Kumar interviewed by Teesta Setalvad

• Singing About the Dark Times
  Shubha Mudgal Sings Dushyant Kumar’s
  “kahaan to tai thaa charaghaan har ek ghar ke liye”

• The Indian Cultural Forum Salutes Our Students

• Statement from the Indian Writers’ Forum on Sheldon Pollock

• Lecture by Aijaz Ahmad: The Languages of a Union

• Book Extract: Kabul Blogs: My Days in the Life of Afghanistan

• ‘Children of God’ by Huchangi Prasad

• Delhi Stands with Rohith Vemula

• Romila Thapar: “The battle now is between religious nationalism and secular nationalism . . .”

• “The roots of the caste system are getting deeper . . .”

• Shital Sathe of the Kabir Kala Manch in conversation with Sudhanva Deshpande

• Repeal the Law of Sedition or Forget about Freedom of Expression
  Mridula Garg

• Inside JNU, Solidarity Holds Us All Together
  Souradeep Roy

• JNU and Our democracy
  Romila Thapar

• Romila Thapar: “The protests by JNU students and teachers have been remarkable . . .”
  Romila Thapar in conversation with Githa Hariharan

• Protest and the Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression
  Lawrence Liang & Siddharth Narrain

• Attack on JNUSU and the Left Built on Lies
  Newsclick Report

• “I have always stood with all my writers”
  Kannan Sundaram in conversation with Souradeep Roy

• “All literature is in some sense political…”
  Susheila Nasta in conversation with Githa Hariharan

• Because Huchangi Prasad is a Dangerous Young Man
  Aman Kumar, Souradeep Roy & Prannay Pathak

• “Negative language in dalit writing persists because of the negative lives we’re forced to lead”
  Urmila Pawar in conversation with Jerry Pinto

• Photo Essay: Sarv Bhasha Samvad in Dandi, January 30
  ICF Team

• People’s March in Defence of the Republic, New Delhi, January 30, 2016
  Peoples Media Advocacy & Resource Centre

• “Cut through the system instead of cutting ourselves…”
  ​Bama in conversation with Githa Hariharan

• Special Feature: Being Gandhi, Seeing Gandhi
  ICF Team

• Book Extract: from Looking Away: Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference in New India
  Harsh Mander

• When will we leave the same old republic behind?
  Aman Kumar

• Indefinite Hunger Strike: Press Release by Joint Action Committee for Social Justice dated 21st Jan, 2016
  Joint Action Committee for Social Justice

• “The Challenge is in the Individual becoming the Collective…”
  Sadanand Menon in Conversation with Shreya Illa Anasuya

• The Writers’ Fight is On!
  Nayantara Sahgal

• Resolution passed at the Panel Discussion on “Caste, Religion and Lived Culture” at Ambedkar University, January 20, 2016
  ICF Team

• Death in the Name of Merit
  The Death of Merit Blog

• No More Deaths in Our Universities!
  ICF Team

• Who will speak for the Human Rights Defenders?
  Dalits Media Watch

• Kar Seva through Universities
  Sabrang India

• Book Extract: from Sentiment, Politics, Censorship: The State of Hurt
  Rina Ramdev, Sandhya Devesan Nambiar & Debaditya Bhattacharya

• Reject Hindutva, Embrace Insaniyat
  Nayantara Sahgal

• Caste Crimes: How the Guilty Can be Punished
  Sabrang India

• Creativity and Censorship: The Insider versus the Outsider
  A R Venkatachalapathy, T M Krishna, Sharmila Seyyid & Kannan Sundaram in Conversation

• Indian History Congress: “Don’t break monuments, don’t incite religious sentiments”
  Indian History Congress

• “There will be singing about the dark times…”
  Faisal Abu Alhayjaa & Sudhanva Deshpande in conversation with Souradeep Roy

• Adivasis and not Naxalites are the Target of the Government: Soni Sori

• Gaye Rama Aaye Rama
  Kalpana Sahni

• ​The ILF Bhasha Samman: A Salute to Perumal Murugan’s Spirit
  ICF Team

• India under Modi is living through a Dark Age: Professor D N Jha
  Newsclick & Sabrang India

• Historian Irfan Habib on the rightwing project of mythologising history
  Teesta Setalvad in conversation with Irfan Habib

• Ashok Singhal and the Making of Holy War
  ICF Team

• “Communalism is a fact of life, but so is secularism…”
  ICF Team and Newsclick

• In Defence of Our Present: On Giving Up the National Awards
  Solidarity with FTII Students

• “Speed up the investigation into the killing of Professor Kalburgi…”
  G. N. Devy

• What is to be done about Indian Universities?
  Academics for Creative Reform

• Let Perumal Murugan the Writer Live Again!
  Statement by the Indian Writers' Forum

• “Mr. Modi and his party have seen every Jamia student as a potential terrorist…”
  Alumni of Jamia Millia Islamia

• Let every day of the year be our Constitution Day!
  ICF Team

• “It’s time to call a stop to this hatred and blood-letting…”
  Listen to Teesta Setalvad's Speech Here

• Book Extract: from Hindutva or Hind Swaraj?
  U R Ananthamurthy

• Everything you need to know about the man who turned balls into cats
  Shovon Chowdhury

• यह वक़्त कठिन जरुर है पर स्थाई नहीं, इसका गुज़रना निश्चित है: कुमार प्रशांत

• The Paris Attack
  Mireille Fanon-Mendès France

• “आज़ादी हमारा पैदाइशी हक़ है”: कृष्णा सोबती

• Cultural Stereotypes and Exclusion: The Politics of Hate Speech
  E. V. Ramakrishnan

• Why can’t an academic deliver a lecture on secularism without police protection? – Romila Thapar

• संघ के मनगढ़ित इतिहास और बढ़ते सांप्रदायिक खतरे पर इतिहासकार इरफ़ान हबीब

• The Shivaji Legend
  Anirudh Deshpande

• Blank Space
   Devyani Tewari

• Statements of filmmakers who have returned their National Awards

• Nakul Singh Interviews the Makers of Caste on the Menu Card

• असहमति पर बढती हिंसा अकल्पनीय: उदय प्रकाश

• Special Feature: Thought-free is Carefree!
  Orijit Sen

• “The current political dispensation headed by the Prime Minister is mandating an atmosphere of violence and fear…”

• Open Letter from Writers

• A Letter by Writers In Response to the Sahitya Akademi’s Resolution

• No one can tell us what not to eat or watch: Watch Caste on the Menu Card here.
  ICF Team

• “The rule of law is being replaced with mob violence… The world is watching and history will judge you by your actions today.”
  Open Letter from citizens and organisations in Hyderabad

• Control, Freedom and the University
  Shyam B. Menon

• On Resistance in Poetry and Art
  K. Satchidanandan

• “What the regime seems to want is a kind of legislated history…”
  Statement by Historians

• Press Statement by Distinguished Scientists
  Statement by Scientists

• In Protest Against the Assault on Academic and Constitutional Freedom
  Statement by Academics and Concerned Citizens

• “Our voices have to be heard loud and clear… (we) condemn this intolerance…”

• “Our individual and collective voices are gathering cumulative strength…”
  Statement by Artists

• “Hindu Rastra is Drawn from the Scholarship of Colonial Historians”
  Watch Romila Thapar's Speech on the Launch of Two Websites of the Indian Writers' Forum

• Launch of the Two Websites of the Indian Writers’ Forum at IIC, Delhi

• Statement from the Indian Writers’ Forum, October 23, 2015

• “This will open up a whole area of challenge…”
  Prabir Purkayastha in conversation with Teesta Setalvad

• Press Note from Goa Writers
  ICF Team

• “Recent developments threaten the study of different ways of life…”
  ICF Team

• From a Hundred and Sixty Three Bengali Intellectuals
  ICF Team

• Keki Daruwalla Returns his Akademi Award
  ICF Team

• Statement Issued by Nayantara Sahgal, October 14, 2015
  Nayantara Sahgal

• Silenced Writer
  Meena Alexander

• Keeping Count of Dissenting Voices
  ICF Team

• Oriya Poet Rajendra Kishore Panda Invokes the Constitution of the Sahitya Akademi in his Letter to the Akademi President
  Rajendra Kishore Panda

• Nayantara Sahgal Responds to the Akademi President’s Remarks
  ICF Team

• “Your moment of reckoning has come…”
  G N Devy

• The Prime Minister Speaks!
  Mridula Garg

• Poet Adil Jussawalla Writes to the Sahitya Akademi President
  Adil Jussawalla

• An Ugly Irony: The Present Government Felicitates those Who Fought the Emergency
  Prabir Purkayastha

• Poet Keki Daruwalla Writes to the President of the Sahitya Akademi
  Keki N. Daruwalla

• Malayalam Author, Feminist, and Activist Sarah Joseph Returns Her Akademi Award to Protest Communal Incidents
  ICF Team

• Eminent Malayalam poet and critic K. Satchidanandan resigns from Sahitya Akademi Executive Board and General Council
  ICF Team

• “Words, strong and emotional words come to you easily. So why do we need to shout and scream for a few sentences about a man who was lynched for allegedly consuming beef?”
  T M Krishna

• Award-Winning Author Shashi Deshpande Resigns from Sahitya Akademi General Council
  ICF Team

• Making Education a Collective National Challenge
  G N Devy

• Nayantara Sahgal Returns Her Sahitya Akademi Award
  ICF Team

• Keeping Count
  ICF Team

• “A dictatorship counts on the silence of those who disagree​. . .​”
  Ritu Menon in conversation with Nayantara Sahgal

• “Har Koi Chahta Hai Ek Mutthi Aasmaan”
  Souradeep Roy in conversation with Kiran Nagarkar

• “I do not want to avoid the political . . .”
  Sudhanva Deshpande in conversation with Shoojit Sircar

• Palestine Will Not Leave You: A Journey with the Freedom Theatre
  Sudhanva Deshpande