ANUSUYA… she is a postgraduate. She belongs to a Scheduled Caste community at Udayarpalayam, a small hamlet in, Ariyalur district.

Subash… he too is a postgraduate. He was born into a Backward Caste community in Arunagiri village, Uthangarai, Krishnagiri district. Both Subash’s and Anusuya’s families had migrated to the industrial town of Tiruppur after failing to find employment in their native villages. Their residences in Tiruppur were close to each other.

West Bengal is currently witnessing an unprecedented state of turmoil centered on the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The hearing phase in the process has become a nightmare for ordinary citizens, especially those from marginalised sections of society. Arbitrary and unilateral decisions by the Election Commission (EC) are fundamentally undermining the democratic structure.

ON January 19, 2026, the CPI(M) began a truly massive march on foot of around 50,000 people hailing from all the tehsils of the Palghar district in Maharashtra. It comprised tens of thousands of peasant women. The overwhelming number of people in this march were Adivasis. The 55 Km-long March started from Charoti in Dahanu tehsil, stopped for the night at Manor, and then marched on January 20 to the Palghar District Collectorate.

Kerala has opened a new front of mass resistance against the central government’s retaliatory measures. Following a protest led by the chief minister and his cabinet colleagues in Delhi, and the ongoing legal battle in the Supreme Court, a satyagraha was held under the leadership of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in front of the martyrs’ column in Palayam, Thiruvananthapuram. This protest turned into a clarion call against the Centre’s attempts to destroy Kerala and its economic blockade.

The Sangh Parivar is trying to vitiate the atmosphere in Tripura as evident from the number of communal incidents taking place in different parts of the state.