Tag: India

15 August 2024

Thousands took to the streets of Kolkata in India early Thursday to condemn the rape and murder of a local ...

Image shows members of the Shompen tribe walking in a river India

An Indigenous tribe is facing genocide – all in the name of capitalist settler-colonialism

by HG

24 April 2024

Experts on Indigenous Peoples have warned that India's controversial Great Nicobar Development Project must be scrapped. Crucially, their open letter ...

India’s Modi is having opposition politicians ARRESTED in a ‘witch hunt’ ahead of April elections

22 March 2024

A top Indian opposition politician, Arvind Kejriwal, was remanded in custody on Friday 22 March following his overnight arrest. Supporters ...

Now the Indian government is being accused of planning a settler-colonial genocide of an entire Indigenous People

7 February 2024

39 international genocide scholars have written to the Indian government warning it that its plans to turn the uncontacted Shompen tribe’s ...

Disinformation about India’s Muslim population fuels Islamophobia

2 May 2023

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A growing number of Hindu social media influencers in India have cultivated large audiences by spreading false demographic data about ...

Two maps of India split by a picture of the UK and a teapot pouring tea down the centre. On the left, old colonial map of British India. On the right, the 'Wastelands Atlas of India' map and a solar panel in the bottom right corner.

British colonial ‘wastelands’ system used for solar land-grabs in India

by Hannah Sharland

15 March 2023

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This is the fifth part of a five-part investigation into how UK government climate finance aid is grabbing land, displacing ...

Artwork of a renewable energy land-grab. An image of the UK splits the image in half, with bank notes flowing from it. On the left, satellite image of the land before the solar park, plus a landscape scene of trees, grasses, scrub and a cow on common land. On the right, satellite image with the solar park dominating the area and a landscape image of a series of solar panels. This relates to UK climate finance being used in India

UK climate strategies are colonising indigenous villages in India

by Hannah Sharland

1 March 2023

This is the second of a five-part investigation into how UK government climate finance aid is grabbing land, displacing communities, ...

Artwork of a solar land-grab. A yellow excavator runs through the centre of the image pushing rubble, splitting the picture in two. On the left, two farmers harvest from a field of chickpea crop. In the distance, a cow grazes on dry grasses. Trees and shrubs dot the horizon. On the right side, lines of solar panels stretch out to the horizon, where the rich and biodiverse crop field once existed. All this represents climate aid and the village of Badi in India

UK government climate ‘aid’ set to displace indigenous villagers in India

by Hannah Sharland

1 March 2023

This is the first of a five-part investigation into how UK government climate finance aid is grabbing land, displacing communities, ...

Modi travels in a heavily guarded vehicle, tax raids on BBC offices in India

Modi’s BBC police raid is an attack on the free press, but it’s under assault everywhere

by Joe Glenton

17 February 2023

Just weeks after the BBC aired a documentary examining Indian prime minister Narendra Modi's role in deadly 2002 sectarian riots, ...

Elephant Moti from India receiving medical care from the Wildlife SOS team after years as a tourist begging elephant

The plight of a collapsed elephant in India shows why tourists should refuse to ride

by Tracy Keeling

6 February 2023

An Asian elephant named Moti has been lying collapsed on the ground since at least 22 January. The 35-year-old elephant ...

We should all be concerned by Modi’s support for Sunak

by Sophia Purdy-Moore

27 October 2022

On 24 October, far-right Indian prime minister Narendra Modi congratulated new British prime minister Rishi Sunak on his appointment. This ...

Resisting capitalism to save our planet: a conversation with author Selma James

by Peadar O'Cearnaigh

21 November 2021

Selma James and others at the Global Women’s Strike (GWS) work with women farmers in Andhra Pradesh in India who ...

Boris Johnson misled parliament yet again – this time about the Delta variant

by Tom Coburg

20 June 2021

On Wednesday 16 June, in answer to a question about the coronavirus (Covid-19) Delta variant, Boris Johnson gave incomplete, if ...

Modi under pressure to impose lockdown amid coronavirus surge in India

7 May 2021

The country has confirmed 414,188 cases of the coronavirus in the past 24 hours.

Devastating weeks ahead as India’s virus catastrophe worsens

4 May 2021

Coronavirus infections and deaths are mounting with alarming speed in India with a top expert warning that the coming weeks ...

Indian variant could ‘scupper’ plans to ease coronavirus restrictions

17 April 2021