The year-long celebration of 90 years of the glorious history of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) started on April 11, 2026 at New Delhi by hoisting the Kisan Sabha Flag. AIKS President Dr Ashok Dhawale unfurled the flag at the AIKS Central Office in an enthusiastic function attended by leaders and activists of different class and mass organisations and the democratic movement. Thousands of village units of the Kisan Sabha across the country commemorated the day by hoisting the AIKS flag.

Many thoughtful people believe that the dominance of a small English-speaking elite in the social and intellectual life of India that has continued long after decolonization has been an important factor in arousing the hostility of a segment of the vernacular proto-elite that has felt excluded and hence has gravitated towards the Bharatiya Janata Party; that the BJP in other words represents inter alia a revolt against the dominance of a small English-speaking elite in the affairs of the country.

On April 12, 2026, theatre practitioners, students and cultural activists across Delhi gathered to mark the 38th National Street Theatre Day, commemorating the legacy of Safdar Hashmi, activist, writer, poet and a pioneer of street theatre in India. Instituted in 1989 during the first Safdar Samaroh, the day has evolved into a powerful assertion of the role of culture in democratic life and public resistance.

The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) has unequivocally condemned the brutal repression unleashed by the BJP-led governments of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana on the militant and spontaneous struggles of workers across Noida, Greater Noida, Gurugram, and the entire National Capital Region (NCR). This is not merely an industrial dispute - it is a valiant expression of direct class confrontation, where the state machinery is openly acting to defend corporate interests by suppressing workers’ rights.

ON April 7, the US president opened his social media app and typed this about Iran and its 90 million people: "A whole civilisation will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will." A genocide threat, in plain English. Could that happen without human language? No. The language conveys an inhuman threat. Language is not the true problem in this situation. The language arises from the arrogance of power and the greed for oil. These dress up mass death in a casual social media post. Iran's own language was mature, subtle, and alive.