Remembering Professor Sumit Sarkar : The Irreverent Historian Who Disdained Tidy Narratives

The loss of Professor Sarkar is not merely the loss of a person. It is as if an institution whose constant presence we had taken for granted for so long a time suddenly crumbled. With his demise, the ever-vanishing rank of those intellectuals who believe that the task of the intelligentsia is not limited to publishing papers and writing monographs for career advancement sitting in ivory towers thinned yet again.

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Fact Finding Report on Repression on Delhi NCR Workers’ Protest by Jan Hastakshep

Civil Rights organization “Jan Hastakshep” decided to send a fact-finding team to Noida and Gurgaon-Manesar to comprehensively study the prevailing situation and all the incidents. For this purpose, two separate investigation teams were formed. One team visited Noida on 24 April 2026, and the other visited Gurgaon-Manesar on 17 May 2026. In addition, several labor activists and leaders from Noida and Gurgaon, who had been in jail due to arrests, met the Jan Hastakshep investigation team after being released on bail and provided information about the facts.

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World Environment Day: National Conference on Occupational and Environmental Health in Bhopal

Representatives of labor organizations, public health experts, community members, and environmental activists from Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Delhi, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Manipur, Assam, Odisha, Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Rajasthan participated in the conference and discussed challenges related to occupational health, environmental damage, and workers’ rights. The discussions were organized into four sessions covering occupational health, environmental health, climate change, and water and global warming.

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