AS part of its ambitious plan to develop ‘100 Model Villages across Tamil Nadu’, the Tamil Nadu Science Forum (TNSF) and MALAR has been spearheading a series of grassroots interventions that merge scientific thinking with community development. The Science Festival at Thirunanthikarai is one of the most vibrant expressions of this vision — a living demonstration of how rationality, collective effort, and scientific temper can reshape rural life from the ground up.

"Give me a voice of thunder that I may hurl imprecation upon this cannibal, whose gruesome hunger spares neither woman nor child."Rabindranath TagoreIN Gaza, the cannibal devours relentlessly – its hunger insatiable, its thirst for blood unquenched. The savagery unfolding is unprecedented, more brutal than anything recent memory can bear.

THE Dalit Shoshan Mukti Manch (DSMM) of the Delhi-NCR region celebrated Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar’s 134th birth anniversary on April 14 at Parliament Street, Delhi, with a call to wage a united struggle against communalism and capitalism.The programme, attended by scores of people, began with CPI(M) General Secretary, M A Baby garlanding Dr Ambedkar’s photograph. He congratulated DSMM for the initiative and emphasized the importance of fighting for social justice to strengthen working-class movements across the country.

IN protest against rising attacks on dalits and the RSS-BJP’s promotion of regressive Manuwadi ideology, the Dalit Shoshan Mukti Manch (DSMM) organised the burning of the Manusmriti on December 25 at multiple locations across the country.

THE National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD) conveys its greetings to the entire disabled people in the country on the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, on December 3.In its message last year the NPRD had sought to draw attention to the impact of the ongoing genocide in Gaza on people with disabilities there. A year since, their numbers have swelled.  According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, of the 94,460 injured, approximately 10,000 Palestinians have had their limbs amputated.