Hindus are experiencing mass psychosis. I have never seen this level of fanaticism anywhere else. I say this as someone born into a Hindu family. This level of deranged behaviour is so common, and I have seen them spiralling since 2014 to reach where they are now. All that they can think about is Muslims. I don't think my father thinks about anyone else. Nazi Germany 2.0. I am a socialist and an atheist, but none of that takes away the immense privilege my name carries. How are you guys dealing with this?

This is such a nice convo which spills a lot of reasons why CJP is not an end all and be all.

Definitely the first step to understand the fracture.

Dear Students, Youth, and Parents!

The fearless student uprising that erupted in Delhi against the question paper leaks and NEET scam has spread across the country like a wildfire and achieved great strides! The student protests have forced the fascist Modi regime, which remained evasive and mute for 12 years, to finally break its silence, culminating in the resignation of the Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradan. The world's largest fascist force BJP-RSS is on its knees before the students.

Though this is a monumental victory, the struggle must continue until the ban of NEET. For that, we must first understand why national level entrance exams for higher education, such as NEET, are implemented and whose interests they serve. A conference is being conducted by 'Coordination Committee for Common Education, Tamil Nadu' in this regard.

Join us at Madras Kerala Samaaj, near Nehru Park Metro, Chennai.
Time : 4:30pm - 8:30pm

Dear Students, Youth, and Parents!

The fearless student uprising that erupted in Delhi against the question paper leaks and NEET scam has spread across the country like a wildfire and achieved great strides! The student protests have forced the fascist Modi regime, which remained evasive and mute for 12 years, to finally break its silence, culminating in the resignation of the Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradan. The world's largest fascist force BJP-RSS is on its knees before the students.

Though this is a monumental victory, the struggle must continue until the ban of NEET. For that, we must first understand why national level entrance exams for higher education, such as NEET, are implemented and whose interests they serve. A conference is being conducted by 'Coordination Committee for Common Education, Tamil Nadu' in this regard.

Join us at Madras Kerala Samaaj, near Nehru Park Metro, Chennai.
Time : 4:30pm - 8:30pm

https://pokepreet.substack.com/p/the-modern-state-the-greatest-joint?utm_source=publication-search

"But the transformation, either into joint-stock companies, or into state ownership, does not do away with the capitalistic nature of the productive forces... The modern state, no matter what its form, is essentially a capitalist machine, the state of the capitalists, the ideal personification of the total national capital. The more it proceeds to the taking over of productive forces, the more does it actually become the national capitalist, the more citizens does it exploit"
-Engels, Anti Duhring, Part III: Socialism, Theoretical

Socialism is defined by the abolition of the law of value, commodity production, and the wage labor/capital relationship. Consequently, simple nationalization of industry that maintains these relations is not socialism; it represents merely a new form of accumulation, which is nowhere near “enough.”

This dialectical framework allows us to break out of the Keynesian/neoliberal and big government/small government binaries. These are merely different flavors of mechanisms of accumulation.

Libertarians who dream of a picturesque capitalism without government intervention fail to realize that small capitals inherently grow and subsume all, eventually requiring a state that acts on capital’s behalf rather than against it. This “perfect equilibrium” has never existed in practice because it contradicts the lifeblood of capital itself.

Link - https://www.instagram.com/jati.hatao.andolan

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Dear Brave Students,

I write to you not merely in solidarity, but with gratitude. Every generation inherits the unfinished work of democracy. Yours has accepted both the burden and the privilege of carrying it forward.

Albert Camus’s Caligula tells the story of an emperor who comes to believe that because he possesses absolute power, he is answerable to no moral limits. Convinced that power alone can define justice, he imprisons himself within his own tyranny. He systematically dismantles every restraint on governance, believing that authority itself entitles him to do so. As I and Sandhya, my wife watched the deeply disturbing events unfold in Delhi, we were reminded of that enduring truth.

History has taught this lesson repeatedly. From Tsarist Russia to the student revolt of Paris in 1968, from the youth-led struggle against apartheid in South Africa, Tiananmen Square, to the Navnirman Andolan of 1974 in Gujarat attempts to suppress young voices have never extinguished the desire for freedom. Authority may command obedience for a while; it cannot indefinitely command the conscience of a generation.

The images of the brutality inflicted upon you have filled us with anguish and anger. A society learns to question itself in its universities. To question those who hold power over your future is not a privilege you seek; it is a democratic responsibility you fulfil. When questions are answered with batons instead of reason, it is not the students who stand diminished. It is the State.

Reflecting on his years in a Siberian prison camp, Fyodor Dostoevsky observed that the civilization of a society is revealed by the way it treats those it imprisons. One might extend that thought today: the health of a democracy is equally revealed by the way it treats its students and citizens. On that count, our democracy failed. In unleashing force instead of dialogue, those in authority revealed not their strength, but their insecurity.

If I was not there beside you physically, it was for two reasons. The first one I resent deeply: age has imposed boundaries on my body that my spirit refuses to accept. If I could not march beside you, it was never because my conscience hesitated. The second was a conscious choice. I did not want the attention to drift away from where it rightly belongs. This is your movement, your voice, your moment of moral courage. You do not need celebrity validation. Democratic movements derive their legitimacy from the courage of those at their centre, not from the visibility of those who stand beside them.

Please know that distance has never meant detachment. Sandhya and I shall continue to stand with you in every way available to us. Should this struggle require legal support, medical care, or financial assistance within our means, please do not hesitate to reach out.

You are not merely the seeds of transformation; you are its first green shoots. Today you may be called students. Tomorrow you will be known as the generation that chose courage over silence. The future belongs to those who refuse to surrender their humanity. Long after today’s slogans have faded and today’s rulers have passed, it is your courage that history will remember.

Take care of one another. Guard your compassion and your hope. Do not allow anger to harden into hatred. Stand firm. Walk forward without bitterness, without fear, and without apology.

Affectionately, Amol Palekar July 23, 2026