NEWSLETTER April & May 2023 LOKAYAT – Forum for a new world! On rocky paths, under stormy skies, through shadow, We see our way clearly, feet never faltering. For Bhima’s Torch burns bright. And the darkness flees. – Shahir Wamandada Kardak Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar believed that merely enacting a constitution and passing laws was not…
NEWSLETTER March 2023 LOKAYAT – Forum for a new world! In a wondrous coincidence of history, it was in the month of “March” that Mahatma Gandhi began marching to the sea to disobey the empire; Babasaheb Ambedkar led thousands to march in defiance of the Manusmriti; women around the world marched for the rights of…
NEWSLETTER February 2023 LOKAYAT – forum for a new world! This February, as the mercury touched a new high, the shamelessness of our corporate-fascist rulers touched new lows. The first in the form of silence on the alleged misdeeds of the Adani conglomerate, the second in the form of yet another brazenly pro-corporate budget. But all…
NEWSLETTER December 2022 and January 2023 LOKAYAT – forum for a new world! Dear friends, January was so busy, we could not publish the December 2022 newsletter on time. So, we have combined the December and January newsletters. As we begin a new year and reflect on the year…
NEWSLETTER October and November 2022 LOKAYAT – forum for a new world! The last two months have seen our most intensive activity of this year. The fourteen-day walk in the Bharat Jodo Yatra as it passed through Maharashtra and preparations for it took up the better part of October…
NEWSLETTER September 2022 LOKAYAT – forum for a new world! Bharat Jodo Yatra and Our Role Today, with the fundamental pillars of the Constitution – democracy and secularism – being undermined, with the BJP determined to subvert the Constitution itself, while at the same time running the economy for…
NEWSLETTER August 2022 LOKAYAT – forum for a new world! Across the country, people celebrated 75 years of our independence with great enthusiasm. While remembering and paying tributes to the heroic sacrifices made by our freedom fighters, this was also an occasion to take stock of…
a forum for a new world! NEWSLETTER JUNE – JULY 2022 “Singing in the rain” – for Democracy and Equality! An overview of our activities from June through July 2022 Street Campaigns Campaigns on Unemployment The current steep rise in the prices of daily necessities is the result of the BJP government’s conscious pro-corporate economic policy. On the…
a forum for a new world! NEWSLETTER MARCH 2022 Here is a brief report of our efforts over the past month of March 2022. Celebrating the true spirit of 8th March: International Women’s Day The 8th of March – immortalised by working women’s struggle for the 8-hour workday and for equality – is a date of…
NEWSLETTER February 2022 LOKAYAT – forum for a new world! February 2022 began with ugly outpourings of fascist politics at home and ended with the spectre of nuclear war hanging over the world. Let us not despair. Let us instead, remind ourselves of the words and…
दिल्लीत सुरु असलेल्या शेतकरी आंदोलनाच्या पार्श्वभूमीवर या लहान पुस्तिकेचे प्रकाशन लोकायत मार्फत करण्यात आले आहे. शेतकरी आंदोलन आणि त्यातल्या मागण्या या केवळ शेतकऱ्यांपुरत्याच नसून विविध अंगांनी सर्व सामान्य जनतेच्या हिताच्या आहेत, याबाबत मांडणी करणारी ही पुस्तिका!