Protest Lane

One BSF jawan commits suicide every week! So claims Navratan Choudhury, who put in four years of service in the BSF (Border Security Force) in a clerical position between 2012 2017. He goes on to say Read More

1984 Sikh Genocide Normalised State Violence This is what members of Lok Raj Sangathan asserted at their annual demonstration at Jantar Mantar on the 1st of November this year too. The organisation reRead More

“Where is the Money?” That is the rallying cry of band of men, who have been holding protests and demonstrations for the past four years in many parts of north India to seek answers, and get their monRead More

How is a Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train joining India! Demanded to know Khargo Bahadur Setry, Bodo leader from Assam. He added, If you had connected Delhi to Tripura, then yes, it would be connecting IRead More

Why are our children condemned to be labourers too? When we join the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) as labourers, it is understood that our children will do the same because no educational facilitiesRead More

I paid Rs. 1800 for a free gas cylinder! Says Reena, a resident of south-west Delhi s Sitapuri, who works in the informal sector. And she is not alone, Many of us have been fooled by this Ujjwala scheRead More

Listen to our life stories from around the country Demanded thousands of farmers, who descended on Delhi from all over the country. Thousands of suicides have not melted the heart of the Parliament toRead More

Country s right civil arm military s left, but stepchild of Govt. This is what Assam Rifles (AR) veterans consider as their status. While its 66000- strong servicemen are deployed across the northeastRead More

Protesting cow killing is convenience not conviction There was frenzied sloganeering and mike-amplified homilies on the 26th anniversary of the demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya on December 06 by Read More

“Need to talk about Constitution not Manusmriti” This is what Himshi, one of the coordinators of the veritable juggernaut of the country’s grassroots population that finally halted in the Capital on DRead More

Legal Mining! Who s speaking for the land? Since mechanized mining began in the 17th century, it has left in its wake kilometers-long, surreal-looking, gaping gashes of devastation and toxic waste. WhRead More

Stop humiliation of engineers! Imagine an engineering job with NO promotion! that is a primary grievance that an energetic, dynamic group of railway engineers have with their job. (Stop humiliation ofRead More

Not the Creamy Layer They were back. Headed by their bolshie leader Yashpal Malik; with their now signature bullheaded belligerence, they streamed down Jantar Mantar street to demand Jats to be on theRead More

“Introduce Pass-Fail from Class 1” It was under the UPA government in 2010 that the no-detention till Class 8 policy was introduced. The justification was to reduce academic stress on children and proRead More

Banking on Illiteracy Venkupalem is a small village 27 km west of the coastal city of Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. It has a population of about thousand people, mostly engaged in small farming actRead More

Peethambaram: One of India s Unclaimed In the year of the Indo-Pakistan war 1965, Peethambar enrolled himself in Cochin in the army as a signalman. I trained in Goa; I was posted in Sikkim in Nathula Read More

Government Playing Ignorant Nanny! Our family was exploring surrogacy for one of our family members a couple of years ago, and I had a chance to learn about the issue, says Kiran Chawla Kapoor, a sociRead More

“Give us old pension scheme or STOP your own!” This was the rallying cry of the hundreds of state government employees from across the country, who gathered at Jantar Mantar. Under the old pension sysRead More

Tripura s Farmer Philosopher When Arjuna faced a problem, he called upon Krishna to guide him. Today, we Indians have the Constitution that plays the same role as the Gita did for Arjuna, so we are heRead More

EWS Early this year, the central government introduced the General Category EWS 103rd Amendment Act that came into effect on January 14, which allows for 10% reservation for financially disadvantaged Read More

Jai Mata meaningless without respecting people Our Parliament can make rules overnight to allow MNCs into the country, but it is dragging its feet to protect its own street vendors whose government isRead More

We support RSS BJP ideology but will oppose them on policy There are more than one and a half lakh direct employees of BSNL, and thousands of retired employees as well as contract labor we will all opRead More

Nine Is Mine With Jantar Mantar formally closed for protests until the end of Lok Sabha elections, there was yet an unusual group that came to put forward their election agenda for all contesting partRead More

''We are NOT Hindu'' This was the rallying cry of the 200-odd participants demanding for protection of their identity on International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, August 09 Campaign MessageRead More

Lord Rama higher than Guru Ravidass? Guru Ravidas is widely believed to have been born in Varanasi in 1450 to a community considered low in caste working as they did with animal hide and leather. But,Read More

Our Govt. More Regressive than British! Even while the Government is inviting foreign universities to set-up shop in the country, what about looking after its own employees? demanded SC Joshi, GeneralRead More

Want to provide evidence that didn t give in without a fight! These were the words of Anita Singh, who has been with the Dena Bank s clearance cell for 34 years. This Government-forced merger, that haRead More

After the controversial attack on Jamia students protesting against the CAA by policemen on Dec. 15, 2019; faculty and students at the prestigious JNU were attacked on Jan. 5, 2020 by masked goons. (iRead More

Focus on Ground Realities The Government presented an anti-people budget, and a two-day platform by a network of 300 organisations deliberated in Jantar-Mantar on how to reclaim full citizenship and sRead More

The security around the Kisan Sansad at Jantar Mantar that kicked off yesterday is as tight as around the Parliament in New Delhi also sitting for its Monsoon Session. However, clear, unhindered accesRead More