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The Era of Elonization
Is Elon Musk’s connection to the latest US Election somewhat similar to the movie The Manchurian Candidate that stars Denzel Washington? In the movie, the multinational corporation Manchurian Global deploys a candidate brainwashed by genetic modification to run for the US Vice President.…
North AP and Rayalaseema Need Public Investment
Request for sanctioning a special financial package for public investment for creating assets in irrigation, education, health, social empowerment and other development sectors in North AP and Rayalaseema To Smt Nirmala Sitharaman Union Finance Minister Dear Smt Sitharaman, Kindly refer to…
Is Jagjit Singh Dallewal Destined To Same Fate As G.D.Agrawal And Devki Nandan Sharma?
Bhartiya Janata Party governments don’t believe in intervening in a situation where somebody is on indefinite fast for some cause and saving their lives. 86 years old Professor Guru Das Agrawal aka Swami Gyan Swaroop Sanand had served as a…
Gaza’s Displaced Face Freezing Rain and Overwhelmed Shelters
Gaza (Quds News Network)- As the final day of 2024 unfolded, a severe winter storm battered the Gaza Strip, bringing heavy rain and freezing temperatures. Displaced families, already grappling with dire conditions, faced worsening hardships as rain flooded their makeshift…
Can’t Believe it’s the New York Times and Not Daily Mail
Thomas Friedman probably thought he was being clever when he titled his most recent article How Elon Musk and Taylor Swift Can Resolve U.S.-China Relations. It’s a headline meant to catch your attention– appealing to the Swifties, who think Taylor…
It is possible to reduce accidents by 50% to save 1.6 Million lives, prevent 200 million injuries in a single year
The extent of the enormous distress caused day after day, year after year is often not realized. One reason for this is that the incredibly huge number of occupational accidents suffered by workers are not considered in many counts of…
Indians Being Deprived of their Right to Education?
What can be said about the Central Government’s recent decision to abolish the “no-detention” for students in classes 5 and 8 in schools under its jurisdiction. This policy has been removed through a gazette notification titled “Right of Children to…
Ban Solar Geoengineering
by Mohammed Usrof, Disha Ravi, Heleen Bruggink, and Erica Njuguna WASHINGTON, DC – We have grown up in a world where climate change is apparent everywhere. We see it in our stormy skies and in the floodwaters inundating our communities.…
Solidarity is the political version of love
Zionism, in the words of its founders, is an explicitly “colonial” ideology.We’re proud anti-Zionists at JVP. But what is Zionism and why are we opposed to it? Zionism is a 19th century political ideology that claimed Jewish safety required a…
Interlinking Rivers: The story from scratch
The interlinking of rivers (ILR) is ill-conceived, ruinously expensive, technically questionable, ecologically devastating, and socially disruptive. Here’s why ILR needs to be scrapped, and integrated water resource management of river basins should be adopted instead Flood and Drought The distribution…
India
North AP and Rayalaseema Need Public Investment
Request for sanctioning a special financial package for public investment for creating assets in irrigation, education, health, social empowerment and other development sectors in North AP and Rayalaseema To Smt Nirmala…
Is Jagjit Singh Dallewal Destined To Same Fate As G.D.Agrawal And Devki Nandan Sharma?
Bhartiya Janata Party governments don’t believe in intervening in a situation where somebody is on indefinite fast for some cause and saving their lives. 86 years old Professor Guru Das…
Indians Being Deprived of their Right to Education?
What can be said about the Central Government’s recent decision to abolish the “no-detention” for students in classes 5 and 8 in schools under its jurisdiction. This policy has been…
Fight words with words, IMSD opposes banning of books!
Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) does not support the call by certain Muslim organisations for a re-ban on Salman Rushdie’s book Satanic Verses. IMSD calls upon Muslims to recall…
Meat Traders and consumers in Goa confront communal threats and a repeat brouhaha over supply of meat
Once again the fringe Hindutva elements has stirred a hornets’ nest after cow vigilantes patterned their signature approach to create havoc and uncertainty for minorities at festival times. This time…
206 years after the battle of Bhima Koregaon!
The battle of Bhima Koregaon between the British and the Peshwas of Poona ended on 1 January 1818, in which the British won and registered another victory in establishing their…
World
Can’t Believe it’s the New York Times and Not Daily Mail
Thomas Friedman probably thought he was being clever when he titled his most recent article How Elon Musk and Taylor Swift Can Resolve U.S.-China Relations. It’s a headline meant to…
Jimmy Carter Told Trump How to Put America First, But Will He Do It?
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies With President Jimmy Carter’s passing and Donald Trump about to return to the White House, it’s a good time to recall a…
New Year Thoughts—What the World Needs in 2025 and Beyond
At a time when a year is ending or has just ended, it is common to wish for a better world in the new coming year. In recent times the…
10 Civilians Killed in Israeli Strike on Syria’s Adra
Damascus (Quds News Network)- Ten people were killed on Sunday in an Israeli airstrike on a facility in Adra, near Damascus. Syrian media reported that the target was a weapons depot…
Greenland Redux: Trump and America’s Continuing Obsession
History shows that empires acquire territories in various ways. Dynasties link arms through marriage, as the Habsburgs were famous for doing. Territories are pinched by means of arms or stolen…
China is helping big agribusiness domination of world food system by promoting GM crops and related companies
While the global south expects China to play a leading role in preventing and resisting the increasing domination of the world food system by giant western agribusiness companies, in recent…
Globalisation
The Globalized Elite Are Perpetuating Local Neo-Colonial Plunder
In the decades since the formal end of colonialism, nations across the Global South have proudly waved the banner of independence, self-reliance, decolonization, and now—deglobalization. The rhetoric of national empowerment,…
80 years is enough: Fight for food, land, and climate justice! Shut down the IMF-World Bank!
Rural peoples’ movements and communities demand the shutdown of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. Over the past 80 years, imperialist governments and their transnational corporations (TNCs) have…
Comparing How the West and China Offer Loans to Developing Countries
Established Western economic institutions are facing a formidable challenge from Chinese newcomers, each side offering distinct and competitive lending strategies with far-reaching consequences for global infrastructure and development. In October…
It’s Not Capitalism… It’s MONEYISM!!
Here it is from an old college buddy and confidante of mine, J D. This former progressive talk radio host and socialist thinker nailed it with his commentary on things…
Why Garment Workers in Bangladesh are on Strike
Bangladesh is a major producer of garments supplying to world’s top brands such as H & M, Lewis, Gucci, Zara and many others. Nearly 4.0 million workers, mostly women toil…
Tossing Neoliberalism into the Dumpster
It’s official, according to a speech by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, the United States is jumping off the neoliberal globalization bandwagon (a root cause of domestic extremism) and it…
Human Rights
Ensure justice for adivasi villagers and accountability of authorities in Bastar, Chhattisgarh
Urgent Letter to CM, Chhattisgarh and Chairperson, State Human Rights Commission, to ensure justice for adivasi villagers and accountability of authorities in Bastar, Chhattisgarh To,The Chief Minister,Government of Chhattisgarh,Civil Lines, Raipur…
Stop NIA witch hunting of Activists and Students
*CAMPAIGN AGAINST STATE REPRESSION STRONGLY CONDEMNS THE NIA RAIDS ON THE HOUSES OF LABOUR & STUDENT RIGHTS & ANTI-DISPLACEMENT ACTIVISTS IN PUNJAB, HARYANA & DELHI* STOP WITCH HUNTING AND INTIMIDATION…
Harassment of Nadeem Khan and Md Zubair are attempts by BJP govts to stifle voices against communal politics and violence
Jharkhand Janadhikar Mahasabha (JJM) and Loktantra Bachao Abhiyan (LBA) condemn the harassment of human rights defender Nadeem Khan and Alt News founder Mohammad Zubair by the BJP-led UP and central…
Protect the constitutional and legal rights of Nadeem Khan
To, The Commissioner of Police,Delhi Police Headquarters,Jai Singh Road,New Delhi - 110001 Sub: Intimidation and attempt to illegally detain human rights defender Nadeem Khan – Seeking fairness in process, inquiry…
PUCL Condemns Harassment of and Malicious FIR against human rights Activist and National General Secretary Nadeem Khan of the APCR by Delhi Police
PUCL is shocked at the manner in which Delhi Police is conducting a targeted witch- hunt and harassment of human rights activist Nadeem Khan, at the instigation of a few…
Indian Prison System: Rising Overcrowding and Awaiting Justice
The alarming reality of Indian prisons lies in their overcrowding, with 75% of inmates being undertrials. This scenario highlights the pressing need for judicial reforms. Against this backdrop, the recent…
Imperialism
The World’s Four Legacy Empires Going Down
Some 2,000 years ago, an itinerant preacher, Saul of Tarsus, was writing to a wayward congregation in Corinth, Greece. Curiously enough, his words still capture the epochal change that may…
Imperialism in its Late, Recent Stage has been Extremely SAD—Stupid, Arrogant and Dangerous
The most defining feature of the 21st century is that this is an extremely sensitive time of human history when the greatest caution is urgently needed to guide the world…
My Internal Exile
“Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night: it’s spritely waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mull’d,…
The Rise of Trump, the Fall of Imperial America
Some 15 years ago, on December 5, 2010, a historian writing for TomDispatch made a prediction that may yet prove prescient. Rejecting the consensus of that moment that U.S. global…
U.S. Recruits South Korea to Help Colonize and Militarize Space
The United States is colonizing and militarizing Earth’s orbit, recruiting allies such as South Korea’s Yoon Suk Yeol administration. More specifically, the U.S. Space Force is creating a “swarm” of…
The Musings of Shigeru Ishiba: Visions of an Asian NATO
Japan’s new prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, is stirring the pot – notably on regional security matters. He has proposed something that has done more than raise a few eyebrows in…
Communal Harmony
Worsening Spiral of Hate speech: Demonization of Religious Minorities
RSS-BJP and its affiliates take every opportunity to deepen the demonization of religious minorities. Though there are legal provisions for punishing these Hate speeches mostly they go unpunished. Last decade…
Communal Amity: Overcoming attacks on our Mixed Heritage
I did have great interest in understanding the society around me and was doing social work in due course. My first foray into social work was in trying to associate…
Mahatma Gandhi’s Vision of Communal Harmony and Peaceful Coexistence
The concept of communal harmony, which is representative of social coherence and harmonious cohabitation of disparate communities, is deeply ingrained in India’s socio-political narrative. Mahatma Gandhi was at the forefront…
Embracing Diversity, Embracing Virtue: A Quranic and Scientific Perspective
Introduction: The Quran offers a comprehensive framework for embracing diversity and pluralism, emphasizing respect, tolerance, and empathy as essential to fostering peaceful coexistence among diverse cultures, beliefs, and ways of…
Peoples power confronts unabashed Communalism and seeks a ‘Common humanity’
On 5th October, Goa was left disrupted and in political stress based on an arrogant and acutely communal statement from the former RSS Chief Subash Velingkar aimed stoking tensions between…
Appeal for Communal Harmony in Himachal Pradesh
We hail the large-scale participation in the peace and unity march by members of the civil society and democratic groups on 27th September 2024 in Shimla and Solan against the…
Climate Change
Ban Solar Geoengineering
by Mohammed Usrof, Disha Ravi, Heleen Bruggink, and Erica Njuguna WASHINGTON, DC – We have grown up in a world where climate change is apparent everywhere. We see it in…
Climate Consensus: The cost of climate change
Over the past year climate change has been put on the back burner by governments and business preoccupied with more pressing, largely economic issues. Mitigation measures especially have been throttled…
The Leading Edge of Global Heat – Arabian Peninsula
Major portions of the Arabian Peninsula are already exceeding 2°C above pre-industrial and likely headed for a staggering temperature rise over coming decades. This disturbing news comes via a major…
Fossil fuels
Christmas is for kids and having a couple of my grandkids here for Christmas is motivating me to try and get you to wake up. Look at your kids and/or…
After COP29, the World Is Losing Faith in the UN Climate Process
Developed countries intentionally or unintentionally let dejection work its way through the conference for several reasons, the most obvious being that their home constituencies are turning against climate and environmental…
Dismantling the ‘Climate Alarm Industry’ per Project 2025
The definition of alarm: “A warning of danger” (Merriam-Webster) according to The State of the Climate Report 2024, 25 of 35 vital signs are at record extremes. By all accounts,…
Environmental Protection
Interlinking Rivers: The story from scratch
The interlinking of rivers (ILR) is ill-conceived, ruinously expensive, technically questionable, ecologically devastating, and socially disruptive. Here’s why ILR needs to be scrapped, and integrated water resource management of river…
Jesting on the Environment: Australian Mining Gets a Present
Mining magnates seem to have it all. Far more significant than royalty, such figures are the unelected captains of industry who know that governments will do whatever they can to…
The False Promise of “Responsible Mining”
WASHINGTON, DC – In July, the Serbian government reinstated the permits for Rio Tinto’s lithium mining project, after canceling them in 2022 following public protests. The decision triggered demonstrations, with…
Rebirth of a River: An Account of the Tuni
During the heydays of military operations to steer the upswing of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) in early 90s, we would frequent a small but ravishing river, particularly…
Is it possible to revive a village economy using rainwater harvesting? Yes! Teen Pokhar shows the way
In the arid and undulating landscape of Rajasthan, this village stands out like a green oasis. Teen Pokhar, with a little over 48 households, is a drought-proof village one hour…
Responsible Mining Can Advance Global Environmental Goals
BOGOTÁ – Fueled by the clean-energy transition and surging gold prices, demand for critical minerals and metals is rising at an unprecedented pace. This trend has supercharged mining activities, posing…
Counter Solutions
Beyond Growth: The promise of a wellbeing economy
In this article, econometrician and sustainability researcher Gaya Herrington considers whether a transition to a Wellbeing Economy is possible and what that would mean for our society and how we…
Food: from commodity to commons
Below I republish an article I wrote almost ten years ago. It can give new readers a summary of my perspective on the food system. For those interested in even…
Economic Growth Is the World’s Most Dangerous Game
In Richard Connell’s popular short story “The Most Dangerous Game,” hunter Sanger Rainsford goes overboard while sailing to the Amazon, washing up on an island owned by deceivingly charismatic General Zaroff.…
Odyssey: Hopes and dreams
Societies around the globe face multiple crises. In this context, is marshaling hope and dreaming up beautiful futures—imagining a world that could be—a useful response, or is it escapism? Our…
Some thoughts on Richard Heinberg’s ”Envisioning a Livable Future”
Few in recent years have made a more significant contribution to our ecological salvation than Richard, and in my dogmatic opinion his most recent essay is stating many of the lessons we…
Farmers Unite in Groups to Increase Income, Yield and Innovation
Several small farmers of an OBC community in Mahuari village have formed a group called Pragtisheel (translated as progressive). In the course of just three years or so they have…
Resource Crisis
The Project of Capital and the Project of the Proletariat in a time of World Crisis
ABSTRACT This is a response to the two sets of articles written by Sajai Jose on the Fourth Industrial Revolution and on the world’s and India’s hunger crisis. It is…
Sustaining the Unsustainable: Why Renewable Energy Companies Are Not Climate Warriors
In the fight to address climate change, renewable energy companies are often assumed to be Jedi Knights. Valiantly struggling to save the planet, wind and solar interests are thought to…
The Gritty Reality of Solar Power
by Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox Time is fast running out. The world’s affluent nations, with their abundant greenhouse emissions, have to finally drag themselves across the starting line…
Solidarity with Resistance to Extraction
by Don Fitz and the Green Party of St. Louis People the world over are opposing fossil fuel extraction in an incalculable number of ways. It is now clear that…
Will There Be Resource Wars in a Renewable Future?
Thanks to its very name — renewable energy — we can picture a time in the not-too-distant future when our need for non-renewable fuels like oil, natural gas, and coal…
The Growth Of Fascism Or The Fascism Of Growth?
Bear with me, scrupulous historians, as I try to run through some questions and parallels between centuries that I hope will enrich the essential debate on how to confront the…
Patriarchy
Navigating Sexual Autonomy Within the Institution of Marriage
“Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It’s not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.” -Michelle Bachelet[1] The Supreme Court of India is…
Concerns arising from the suicide of Atul Subhash: A feminist response
The tragic suicides of Atul Subhash and police constable, Tippanna Alagur in Karnataka have once again given rise to volatile debates on the ‘misuse’ of the laws related to gender…
Taliban, Women’s Equality and Hindutva Nationalism
Tavleen Singh is a well known columnist. In a recent column (Religiosity is sick, not Secularism, I.E. 8 December 2024) writes about the barring the women studying medicine in Afghanistan.…
Luring a Man, Sexual Coercion, and the Patriarchal Narratives
There are thousands of self-help books, articles, and social media pages that promise to reveal the secrets to luring different types of people—whether it's a romantic partner, employees, employers, or…
Menstruation and Society: Unveiling Discrimination, Utopian Visions, and Media’s Role
The literary work of Rokeya Sakhawat Begum, namely "Sultana's Dream[1]," can be interpreted as a utopian endeavour aimed at conceptualizing a feminist society referred to as "Ladyland." This envisioned civilization…
Yes, All Men and Women Who Stay Silent Perpetuate the Culture of Violence with Impunity
Recently, there was a debate on social media regarding `#Not All Men’. This phrase is popularized online by mostly the Men’s Rights Activists (MRAs) to depict that not all men…
Palestine
Gaza’s Displaced Face Freezing Rain and Overwhelmed Shelters
Gaza (Quds News Network)- As the final day of 2024 unfolded, a severe winter storm battered the Gaza Strip, bringing heavy rain and freezing temperatures. Displaced families, already grappling with…
Solidarity is the political version of love
Zionism, in the words of its founders, is an explicitly “colonial” ideology.We’re proud anti-Zionists at JVP. But what is Zionism and why are we opposed to it? Zionism is a…
Calls Grow for the Release of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Calls have grown for the release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, after he was abducted by Israeli forces…
Even If a Deal Is Reached, Israel Will Resume Fighting to Achieve ‘War Goals’:Netanyahu
Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has clarified that the occupation state will resume the genocide in Gaza even if a deal is reached with Hamas,…
Five more Palestinian detainees from Gaza Strip killed by Israel in period of 24 hours; Euro-Med Monitor urges int’l action
Palestinian Territory - Following the news that five more detainees from the Gaza Strip have been killed in a 24-hour period, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor urges the United Nations to take…
Sixth Infant Freezes to Death in Gaza
Gaza (Quds News Network)- A newborn Palestinian baby died Monday morning from the extreme cold in Gaza, becoming the sixth infant to freeze to death in recent nights. His twin…
South Asia
Vijay Diwas 2024: A limited success trumps an undeniable victory
Every year since 1971, we have observed 16 December as the anniversary of Pakistan’s Lt Gen A.A.K.Niazi signing the Instrument of Surrender of all Pakistan’s Eastern Command combatant troops to…
Bangladesh dispels misinformation: Few outside India believe it
Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri concluded a one-day visit to Dhaka, on Dec 9, meeting Muhammad Yunus, the Chief Advisor of Bangladesh’s Interim Government. (Photo by DD). The meeting, some…
Bangladesh: Lesson not Learned from the Fate of Prime Minister Khawaja Nazimuddin
Four months have passed since the student-led revolution overthrew Sheikh Hasina, the most despised dictatorial prime minister in Bangladesh, on August 5, 2024. The nation has not yet shown signs…
India’s Bangladesh policy: Gross interference, regional hegemonism, with an ominous backing of America
Bangladesh Assistant High Commission office in Agartala was attacked on December 2 by Hindutva hordes… Frenzied up by misinformation, ”thousands of people took out a massive rally to the mission”…
Fall of Hasina: Time for India to reflect and recalibrate
On 5th of August this year, a student led mass uprising ended Prime Minister Hasina’s 16-year despotic and corrupt regime in Bangladesh. Hasina fled to India and has been residing…
What is Indian media’s gain in branding Bangladesh as a Hindu-hating country?
The only conclusion that can be drawn from much of the Indian media's recent coverage of Bangladesh is that it is a Hindu-hating country. The venom that is being spewed,…
Annihilate Caste
Dalits should be cautious of the divisive policies of BJP-RSS:All India Peoples Front
• Dalits should be cautious of the divisive policies of BJP-RSS • Supreme Court's decision on SC-ST sub-classification is not based on facts - Prof. Thorat • Unity of Dalits…
Dalits’ Condition Remains Dire Despite Reservation, says Sukhadeo Thorat
Despite decades of reservation policies aimed at addressing historical injustices, the socio-economic condition of Scheduled Castes (SCs) in India remains dire, as highlighted by Sukhadeo Thorat, former Chairman of the…
Bhakti-Kal and Caste Question
An abridged version of talk delivered on 23rd October, 2024 at Calicut University I say this with emphasis that in Indian history two periods, only two periods, came as a…
Dr. Ambedkar’s Dream of Economic Empowerment of Dalits is Incomplete
On 14 October 1956, Dr. Ambedkar converted to Buddhism in Nagpur due to untouchability, caste and class divisions in Hinduism. This day is as important for his followers as 14…
Court Rebukes Caste-Based Discrimination in Prisons
In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court has directed all states and union territories to immediately amend prison rules to stop caste-based discrimination and segregation of labor in prisons. The…
Poona Pact and Its Adverse Effects
Caste is considered to be the cornerstone of Indian Hindu society. In this structure of hierarchical inequality, the untouchables are at the lowest level, who were officially called 'Depressed Classes'…
Life/Philosophy
It is possible to reduce accidents by 50% to save 1.6 Million lives, prevent 200 million injuries in a single year
The extent of the enormous distress caused day after day, year after year is often not realized. One reason for this is that the incredibly huge number of occupational accidents…
It’s 2025 – And So Sudden
This brief essay is a personal reflection by the author on reaching the year 2025, coloured by nostalgia for the 20th century and a mild disappointment about the recent decades,…
Jimmy Carter, Israel and the Apartheid Question
The late centenarian, Jimmy Carter, occupied a difficult position in the line of imperial magistrates we know as US Presidents. Coming to power in the aftermath of murderous US adventurism…
Don’t Deify Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter may have done good works out of office, but in power he fomented a series of domestic and foreign policy disasters. Jimmy Carter, out of office, had the…
Reputed novelist’s labour of love, a biography of dalit writer Annabhau Sathe
Vishwas Patil, prolific, talented Marathi novelist, was a member of a delegation of writes to China in 2013 led by Sunil Gangopadhyaya. At a conference in a big library in…
False Saviors – Jimmy Carter
A pious Sunday school teacher confessing to lust in his heart but swearing never to lie, he came to Washington to reestablish public faith in government just when popular disgust…
Arts/Literature
The Era of Elonization
Is Elon Musk’s connection to the latest US Election somewhat similar to the movie The Manchurian Candidate that stars Denzel Washington? In the movie, the multinational corporation Manchurian Global deploys a candidate …
Bohe Nirontoro Ononto Anondodhara – (“The Shower of Eternal Bliss Forever”)
A tribute to Kobiguru Rabindranath Tagore. The translation of the song from the Geetabitan Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) Parjaay: Puja (324) Upa-parjaay: Aanondo Taal: Jhaptaal…
October 7: A History in Threads
What follows is the final installment of ‘October 7: A History in Threads,’ which connects the present to the past 141 years of Zionism and Israel’s occupation of Palestine. Please…
The Apolitical Intellectuals of Our Time
No, dear Otto René Castillo,[1]the apolitical intellectuals of our time,won’t be mute in their shameif they’re asked by those undeadwhat they did when the people of their countrywere dying tragically…
Human pain and contemporary cinema
This country has tremendous festivals to celebrate, as the population and culture are so diverse from north to south, with hundreds of religious, seasonal, and cultural events every year. As…
Corporate Chicaneries
Auden wrote that many lives have been lived without love, but none without water. He couldn't possibly have written about the utter necessity of water without thinking of the billions…
Book Review
A Tribute to the Luddites
A Review of “Blood in the Machine” by Brian Merchant George Santayana’s statement that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” is quoted most-often as an…
Book Review: Decoding HATE in Indian Politics
Contextualising Islamophobia in Indian Politics The scourge of Islamophobia has increased manifold globally in the recent times. Though it started from the West, but slowly it has crept into the…
Who killed Judge Loya?
Perhaps in my reading list of books, this will have to be included in the most surprising book of the year 2024. That is why in the state level program…
Resisting Empire & Injustice Through Fiction
by Alexandria Shaner and Tamara Pearson Activist-author Tamara Pearson discusses her new novel, The Eyes of the Earth, and how storytelling as resistance can unravel discourse, confront reality, and explore possibilities Empire…
Whose Role Models Are They, Anyway?
If India is all about “inclusive development”, then why the need for Muslim role models at all? An Azim Premji may be among the top philanthropists today, but has it…
Philosophy of Agriculturalism in Ancient India
When I was researching for my latest book The Shudra Rebellion I went back into ancient Indian literature to find out whether there was a philosophical school called Agriculturism around…
Editor's Picks
Why it is Imperative to Support Independent Journalism
Dear Readers, As a loyal reader of Countercurrents.org (CC) I am writing this letter to you all to espouse support for this website. In today’s world, Independent journalism should be…
Climate Change: Why Should The Global South Pay For The Profligacy Of The Likes Of Taylor Swift, Elon Musk?
Climate change is a threat facing the whole of humanity. The real generators of this crisis are the developed economies of the Global North. They found a way to circumvent…
Deaths in Gaza and Us
Death is normal unless if it happens one of our dear and near ones. 40000+ (as per official figures) people have been killed in Gaza. According to The Lancet almost…
Landslide In Wayanad Is Only The Beginning!
Here is an AI-generated Podcast based on the article On the morning of July 30, a huge landslide occurred at Mundakkai, in the mountainous district of Wayanad, Kerala, India. 282…
Stories that can bring a positive change deserve to be called news: Binu Mathew
At a time when the Indian media is increasingly being controlled by the rich and dominated by the caste elites, Countercurrents.org has set up an example of giving space to…
A People’s Manifesto for Ecological Democracy – 2.0
This is an updated version of the “People’s Manifesto for Ecological Democracy” that Countercurrents.org published on 15th August 2020, where we set out a broad framework on how India should…
COVID Response Watch
Shadow of Covid lingers over the erstwhile Kingdom of Cooch Behar
The princely state of Cooch Behar merged with the Dominion of India on August 8, 1949 and became a part of the State of West Bengal on January 1, 1950.…
Public life in MP disrupted by heavy rains linked to climate change
Roads are crumbling, bridges are collapsing and railway lines are flooded . The surging waters from the rivers are drowning entire villages all around. It has rained so much that…
Hanging by a thread, Sheffield of the East
Sometimes it was a rise in pig iron prices due to disruption of supply chains due to the Covid pandemic. Now you can find the Ukraine War as a reason…
Malnutrition and death of children decreased in the system, increased in reality
In Maharashtra, the administration has been claiming that there is a steady decline in the number of malnutrition and child deaths in the state. But, in recent figures that have…
When Forest Rights meets Right to Education
With the horrors of the deadly virus still in the air, this would appear to be like a remarkable fairy tale in the post-Covid pandemic scenario, almost like a dream…
Uttarakhand In Need of Climate Resilient Agriculture Practices
In the last few years, we have been witnessing erratic, unpredictable and unexpected changes in climate, which are more perceptible in the Himalayan region of the country. These changes are…
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