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Beating Israel’s Collaborators in Gaza
The structure of the Hebrew state is based on mercenaries, collaborators, and agents. As revealed in Gaza, Israel is no more than a gang of murderers and a terrorist organization in the guise of a "state." Therefore, it is of…
Nuclear Exception: Israel, Iran, and the Crisis of Eroded Treaties and Escalation Fallout
How Eroding the NPT Framework Undermines Global Security and Rewrites the Ethics of Naming, Punishment, and Strategic Immunity Caption: Kazem Gharibabadi (left), Iranian diplomat and former ambassador to international organizations in Vienna, including the IAEA, and Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear…
Ladakh at the Crossroads: A Strategic Frontier Seeking Its Voice
Ladakh occupies a unique place in India’s strategic imagination. Perched between Pakistan-occupied territories to the west and Chinese-controlled Tibet to the east, it stands as both a symbol of India’s territorial resolve and a test of its democratic sensitivity. The…
End Repression on the Democratic Ladakh Movement, Free Sonam Wangchuk, Drop NSA Charges
Begin Dialogue: Grant Sixth Schedule Status and Statehood to Ladakh 27th Sep, 2025: National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM), is deeply pained at the unjust turn of events in Ladakh, that has led to the tragic loss of four lives,…
Indian Constitution and Social Justice: An Overview
Indian society has been riddled with many inequalities. There are some forces who want to do away with the Indian constitution. It is an instrument towards social struggle for equality. On one hand there have been patriarchal values, glorified in…
The Limits of Awareness Campaigns in Raebareli
Raebareli is not new to campaigns. From the freedom movement to the electoral legacies of the Nehru–Gandhi family, this district has witnessed grand declarations, fiery speeches, and sweeping promises. The present-day administrative campaigns on women’s safety, child protection, road safety,…
Yuck! The Sour Taste of the Modern Food System
The Yuka app is a mobile application designed to help consumers quickly assess the health quality of food and cosmetic products by scanning their barcodes. It produces a health score ranging from 0 to 100 and provides a colour-coded rating,…
GST 2.0: A Stress Test for the Indian Economy or a Festival of Savings?
On 22nd September 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the launch of GST 2.0, calling it the "next-generation GST." The government has positioned this reform as a massive relief for households, industries, and consumers. From groceries to automobiles, essentials to…
Increasing Relevance of the Ideas and Commitments of Shahid Bhagat Singh
With each passing year, the legend of Shahid (Martyr) Bhagat Singh continues to grow. In so many places of India those taking up thousands of good causes and progressive initiatives every year insist on naming these after Shahid Bhagat Singh…
Vikalp Sangam General Assembly Stands in Solidarity with the People of Ladakh
The Vikalp Sangam General Assembly stands in solidarity with Ladakhi people and grieves the loss of lives lost on 24 September 2025. We express strong concern about the use of armed force by the local administration that led to the…
India
Ladakh at the Crossroads: A Strategic Frontier Seeking Its Voice
Ladakh occupies a unique place in India’s strategic imagination. Perched between Pakistan-occupied territories to the west and Chinese-controlled Tibet to the east, it stands as both a symbol of India’s…
End Repression on the Democratic Ladakh Movement, Free Sonam Wangchuk, Drop NSA Charges
Begin Dialogue: Grant Sixth Schedule Status and Statehood to Ladakh 27th Sep, 2025: National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM), is deeply pained at the unjust turn of events in Ladakh,…
Indian Constitution and Social Justice: An Overview
Indian society has been riddled with many inequalities. There are some forces who want to do away with the Indian constitution. It is an instrument towards social struggle for equality.…
The Limits of Awareness Campaigns in Raebareli
Raebareli is not new to campaigns. From the freedom movement to the electoral legacies of the Nehru–Gandhi family, this district has witnessed grand declarations, fiery speeches, and sweeping promises. The…
GST 2.0: A Stress Test for the Indian Economy or a Festival of Savings?
On 22nd September 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the launch of GST 2.0, calling it the "next-generation GST." The government has positioned this reform as a massive relief for…
Vikalp Sangam General Assembly Stands in Solidarity with the People of Ladakh
The Vikalp Sangam General Assembly stands in solidarity with Ladakhi people and grieves the loss of lives lost on 24 September 2025. We express strong concern about the use of…
World
Nuclear Exception: Israel, Iran, and the Crisis of Eroded Treaties and Escalation Fallout
How Eroding the NPT Framework Undermines Global Security and Rewrites the Ethics of Naming, Punishment, and Strategic Immunity Caption: Kazem Gharibabadi (left), Iranian diplomat and former ambassador to international organizations…
Yuck! The Sour Taste of the Modern Food System
The Yuka app is a mobile application designed to help consumers quickly assess the health quality of food and cosmetic products by scanning their barcodes. It produces a health score…
Trump rules: no nuclear weapons. Khamenei: no surrender. Who blinks first?
On 23 September, as the United Nations opened its 80th General Assembly in New York, two men thousands of miles apart spoke almost directly to each other. Donald Trump, back…
The First Amendment as a Racist Weapon
The debates over the protection of free speech have been raging since before the killing of Charles Kirk. The killing of Charles Kirk has taken this discussion into another realm.…
The Death of Civil Rights in the Age of Trump
Warning: dangers in the mirror are often closer than they may appear. In other words, the next few paragraphs may seem to be hyperbole but are, in fact, expressions of reality…
Gold Trump Epstein Protest Statue Removed – Giant Trump Installed
A satirical life-sized gold colored statue on a faux marble base depicting Donald Trump holding hands while jumping with convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein titled “Best Friends Forever” appeared on…
Globalisation
Understanding APEC: Towards a Multipolar World
This is the 3rd article in a series exploring APEC within the current political conjuncture. If the previous articles covered “What is APEC?” and “The Making of Global Value Chains,”…
How to Get the International Monetary Fund to Think
On 8 July 2025, the IMF published a brief blog post called ‘How to Stabilise Africa’s Debt’. The blog is only three pages long (one page shorter than the report upon which it is…
What is APEC?
If you look at the news, the media treats the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum more like a gala than a policy forum about regional economic policies. Despite high…
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…
Human Rights
ALIFA Condemns Rape and Death Threats to Naga women’s rights leader Prof. Rosemary Dzuvichu
Calls upon the State to ensure her safety, bring perpetrators to justice and uphold Naga women’s right to reservations in municipal bodies 25th Sep, 2025: ALIFA – NAPM (All India…
Rejaz M. Sheeba Sydeek and the Manufactured Conspiracy of ‘Love Jihad’
In India today, love and friendship have been dragged out of the private realms and thrown into the battlefield of politics. What should just be a matter of personal choice…
Abdul Wahid Shaikh, acquitted in 7/11 Mumbai train blast case, demands ₹9 crore as Compensation for Wrongful Incarceration
Abdul Wahid Shaikh, the sole individual acquitted in the 7/11 Mumbai train blasts case by the trial court in 2015, has petitioned the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), State Human…
The Nation’s Conscience Behind Bars
The Supreme Court on 12 September 2025 deferred hearing the bail pleas of activist Umar Khalid and others accused in the 2020 Delhi riots “larger conspiracy” case to 19 September…
Alright, Comrade: Books, Beliefs, and the Burden of Being Rejaz M Sheeba Sydeek
Rejaz M. Sheeba Sydeek was arrested on May 7 by the Nagpur police in Pune. He is after all 26 years. The news of his arrest did not come as…
Thinking beyond the bars: How higher education helped me develop confidence in myself and rediscover my humanity
Ambitious young people are told that a college degree is necessary to launch a successful career. For me — a “lifer” taking courses from my cell in a state prison…
Imperialism
The Department of War Is Back!
My fellow Americans, my critical voice has finally been heard inside the Oval Office. No, not my voice against the $1.7 trillion this country is planning to spend on new nuclear weapons.…
Guyana: A Pawn of US Imperialism
The recently concluded Guyanese Elections spectacularly reinforced my claim that liberal democracy is a bogus concept; one of the biggest cons ever invented and thrust upon humanity. The incumbent People’s…
The US Tightens the Dollar’s Death Grip on Brazilian Democracy
ANGERS – In a letter to Brazil’s largest banks, the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has demanded to know what steps they were taking to comply with…
Methinks thou doth protest too much!
Listen up, Senator Warmonger. Listen up, Congressman Forever War. Hear me out, President China Hater. Yes you, Vice-President Iran Hater. And you, Secretary Cuba Hater. Pay attention, General Russia Hater.…
Ceasefire, American-Style: Pause for Optics, Not for Peace
There was a time when the word “ceasefire” had meaning. It conjured up the faint possibility of respite, an exhausted silence after prolonged carnage, a breathing space for diplomacy, humanitarian…
Reclaiming and Restoring America
As a retired U.S. Air Force officer, I firmly believe in civilian control of our military. This country should be a nation of laws — not of special interests, oligarchs,…
Communal Harmony
The Javed Akhtar Debate: Religion, Politics, and the Question of Secular Life
A literary event in Kolkata, organized by the West Bengal Urdu Academy, was cancelled after protests from Islamic groups over the invitation of the openly atheist poet-lyricist Javed Akhtar. Scheduled…
Mahatma Gandhi’s Views on Religion Very Helpful for Inter-Faith Harmony, Peace and Social Reform
It was hoped that with scientific progress that the tendency to use religion in regressive and harmful ways to spread intolerance, hostility and violence against others, or to check progress…
We Must Remember the Great Heritage of Inter-faith Harmony to Bring Peace and Unity in South Asia
The inter-mingling of various religions and cultures can often lead to very beautiful and stimulating results as people, saints and scholars are excited to discover the cultural and spiritual contributions…
Then they came for… Rising anti-Christian Violence
Couple of days ago (26 July 2025) two Christian nuns were detained at Durg station in Madhya Pradesh. The charges put against them were serious, while the matter was simple…
Undermining Religious Freedom: Proffering ‘Integral Humanism’ as Defence
During the last four decades India has witnessed the rising intimidation and targeting of religious minorities. After the demolition of Babri mosque the country witnessed unprecedented violence in Mumbai leading…
Guha, a Village under Siege, Dispute over a Dargah, a Communal Cauldron, Muslim Minority facing Socio-Economic Boycott by Hindutva forces – Civil Society Intervention Required!
Guha, is a small village near Ahmednagar in Maharashtra. It’s now caught in the grip of Hindutva mobilization, where another Dargah has now been a target of attack over the…
Climate Change
Getting to Greener Steel
NEW YORK – Burning coal to generate power is so uneconomical that the Trump administration has resorted to issuing stay-open orders to prop up the dying industry. However, there is…
Preparing for Scarcity-Drinking Deep While We Can
The truck wheel’s inner tube was right in front of me, no longer half-submerged in the pond’s late summer muck. After so many hot weeks without rain, the water had…
Clean Energy Is Inevitable Despite Trump
BERLIN – Brexit, Donald Trump, COVID-19, Russia’s war on Ukraine, Trump 2.0: During the decade since the Paris climate agreement was signed, the debates about global warming have become both…
Senator Whitehouse: “It May Be Too Late”
It May Be Too Late is a climate change idiom that is gaining recognition because global warming is bringing the threat of irreversible climate system collapse to reality as nightly…
What a China-EU Climate Deal Could Do for the World
LONDON –One typically hears two stories about China and climate change. The first is that China leads the world in greenhouse-gas emissions as it continues to build more coal-fired power…
Climate change will collapse the healthcare delivery system in India
Salim’s death in the Wayanad Disaster was not an Act of God On 29 July of last year, Salim, who stays in Mundakkai, the epicentre of the 2024 Mundakkai Landslide…
Environmental Protection
Reviving the Serengeti: How Maasai Women’s Dairy Initiatives Protect Wildlife and Communities
Facing habitat loss, climate change, and shifting livelihoods, Maasai women are leading a transformative program that links sustainable dairy farming with the preservation of the Serengeti’s iconic migrations and the…
India’s Forgotten Grasslands: Vital for Wildlife, Climate, and Rural Livelihoods
As national conversations slowly begin to recognize the value of “open ecosystems” such as deserts and savannas, India’s grasslands remain largely overlooked—both in public discourse and environmental policy. Yet these…
The Hoor Marsh in the Fire of Water Disputes
One night, very recently, Ahvaz, Rofayye‘, Susangerd, Hoveyzeh, Bostaan, Hamidiyeh, Shadegan, and even Mahshahr and Ramshir (all cities in Iran’s southwest province of Khuzistan) were engulfed by a thick, smoke-filled…
Appeal to the President of India not to exempt private beach sand mining from the statutory requirement of prior public consultation
Appeal to respected Rashtrapati Ji to intervene and direct the political executive not to exempt private beach sand mining activity and, for that matter, any activity that affects people's lives,…
A critical look into India’s unequal water resource accessibility through the advertisement “The Shower”
“The Shower” advertisement was made by UNICEF/Hindustan Unilever under its campaign named "Start a Little good in 2018. The ad is set in a drought affected remote village of Rajasthan…
Discard the Zoo Safari Project: Conserve the Aravalli Ecosystem and Uphold Community Rights
The National Alliance for Climate and Ecological Justice (NACEJ), a pan Indian forum of the National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) comprising of grassroots movement activists, ecologists, climate scientists, environmental…
Counter Solutions
Reviving Farm Biodiversity and Protecting Rights of Farmers
One of the biggest worries relating to the food and farming system at world level has been that in recent decades the diversity of crops being grown on the fields…
Beej Swaraj (Seeds Sovereignty) is Crucial for Agenda of Self-Reliance —Interview with Jayesh Joshi
Jayesh Joshi, founder and coordinator of Vaagdhara voluntary organization, has been in the news recently as co-organizer of a national dialogue on self-reliance of rural communities and a series of…
Integrating Livelihood, Social Reform, Peace and Climate Concerns for Holistic Approach to Rural Health and Nutrition
In the discourse on rural health primary health care which reaches all people has been emphasized along with prioritizing the needs of the poorest people and a right to health…
AMRIT Approach to Providing Health Care to Remote Villages Raises Hopes
Ensuring health care in rural areas has been one of the most important aspects of health challenges in developing countries. This is particularly important in a country like India where…
Permaculture as a Tool, Not a Destination
I first came to permaculture, like many others, with a deep sense of longing; seeking hope in a world that to me can often feel hopeless. It felt like a…
Live Free
At this time of rapidly rising authoritarianism and environmental destruction many people wonder what they can do and if the action they take has meaningful impact. In the past, resistance…
Resource Crisis
Peak Oil for Gen Z: Seven Questions and Answers for a New Generation
Gen Z is a generation born into a world full of anxieties—from school shootings to climate Armageddon, to a pandemic and political violence. But I’m here to give you one…
China Develops Green Jet Fuel from Solar Powered Reactor
As American imperialism and its racist European allies continue to create havoc across the globe—seeking wars and conflicts to distract from the failures of capitalism and turning America and Europe…
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…
Patriarchy
Everlasting grip of Dowry in India: Decoding structural forces behind the Marriage Market
A few days ago, at a dining table, I noticed one of my friends visibly disturbed. When I asked him the reason, he shared that a female friend’s marriage was…
Reclaiming the Legacy of Founding Mothers: Feminist Paradox and the Politics of Representation
While presenting on the Founding Mothers of the Indian Constitution at various venues such as schools, colleges, and social organizations, participants often voiced concerns about these women’s elite and foreign-educated…
Can’t we stop Dowry Deaths?
This is an essay on “Dowry Deaths,” read at the Hyderabad Press Club on July 11, 1987. Marriage is essential to both women and men. Just as a woman needs…
Why would a Woman want to die on a Man’s Feet?
Let me start with two pertinent questions: 1) Is a woman's purpose in life to die on her husband's feet should be acceptable in the 21st century? 2) How long are women going to…
Violence Against the Womb—Medically Unnecessary Hysterectomies Harming Many Women including Young Ones
It is well-established medically that while hysterectomies are needed and justified in many cases, these should not be taken up indiscriminately and where it is possible to treat using medication…
Kashmir’s Dark Underbellies: Ethnic Xenophobia and Systemic Misogyny
In the shadowed valleys of Kashmir, where the mountains stand as silent witnesses to both beauty and brutality, a story unfolded recently that pierces the heart with its raw injustice.…
Palestine
Beating Israel’s Collaborators in Gaza
The structure of the Hebrew state is based on mercenaries, collaborators, and agents. As revealed in Gaza, Israel is no more than a gang of murderers and a terrorist organization…
The Point of No Return: Why Accountability in Gaza is a Global Imperative
Every day brings new indictments for Israel. The early accusations of genocide by South Africa are now quickly becoming an accepted legal definition among international bodies and governments alike. The…
The open wounds of Gaza City
Riyad Nofal, a photographer from Jabaliya, has been displaced 14 times since Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza began almost two years ago. Despite being constantly uprooted, Riyad remained within Gaza…
The Lost Libraries of Gaza: When Books Burn, Memory Burns Too
In Gaza, destruction is not limited to homes, hospitals, and markets. Less visible, yet equally tragic, is the erasure of memory, knowledge, and culture: the obliteration of libraries. For decades,…
Palestine Cannot Wait Another Generation
France’s recognition of Palestine is welcome, but without follow-through it risks joining the long list of empty declarations that Palestinians have heard for generations. Symbolic gestures do not alter the…
Violating the Terms of Service: Microsoft, Azure and the IDF
On August 6, The Guardian reported that “multiple individuals have asserted that the IDF [Israeli Defense Forces] is using Azure for the storage of files of phone calls obtained through…
South Asia
Nepal’s Discord Revolution – Gen Z at the Frontline
In recent years, a wave of youth-led protests has swept across South Asia, fueled by social media and frustration with entrenched corruption. From Sri Lanka to Bangladesh and now Nepal,…
What is the background of the recent unrest in Nepal?
What is the background of the recent unrest in Nepal? The recent unrest in Nepal is primarily a result of widespread public anger over the government's ban on numerous popular…
Mind and Market: Nepal’s Strategic Shift Towards China
In May, the weather in northern India is unbearably scorching hot, but in China it is similar to India’s autumn. During my fieldwork in China (2019), I landed in Sichuan,…
From Israel to India: How Saudi-Pakistan defence pact is redrawing power lines
The defense pact recently formalised between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan represents a significant geopolitical shift, particularly in the context of recent regional tensions. The agreement, sealed shortly after nearly 60…
The Hydraulic Hegemon: India’s Weaponization of Transboundary Rivers
Bangladesh’s push for a longer, more predictable Ganges Water Treaty has brought India’s upstream tactics back into sharp focus. In a region where water scarcity and climate stress are escalating,…
Cricket minus courtesy, politics minus clarity
India’s participation in the Asia Cup match against Pakistan after the Pahalgam terror attack marks a troubling moment in the country’s public life—a point where cricket and politics have fused…
Annihilate Caste
The idea of caste
Caste is not physical. Because it is known only when it is told or asked. The body, color, shape, height, thickness of the person in front of you are visible,…
Police Brutality Against Dalit Women in Pune: A Chilling Warning to Humanity
In a democracy that prides itself on constitutional values and human dignity, the recent police atrocity against Dalit women in Pune is not just horrifying—it’s a brutal indictment of the…
Caste, Honour, and Death: The Unyielding Grip of Caste Hierarchies in Independent India
Introduction On 28th July 2025, Mr. Kavin Selva Ganesh, a young software engineer, was brutally hacked to death by a dominant caste man in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu. The sole reason…
Another ‘honor’ killing in Tamil Nadu
Another 'honor' killing in Tamil Nadu, this time in Tirunelveli, where a software engineer from the Scheduled Caste community was hacked to death by the family of the girl he…
Khaat (cot) movement in Rajasthan
While the constitution of India clearly establishes equality of all citizens including weaker sections, in reality several discriminative practices have continued to persist against various weaker sections of society. At…
Property and the Scheduled Castes and Tribes in India
Property gives security, power and prestige. Desire to own property has become one of the most powerful motivating urges of human-kind. So long as man remains master of 'property' it…
Life/Philosophy
Increasing Relevance of the Ideas and Commitments of Shahid Bhagat Singh
With each passing year, the legend of Shahid (Martyr) Bhagat Singh continues to grow. In so many places of India those taking up thousands of good causes and progressive initiatives…
Charlie Kirk: Discourse Analysis based on Universal Values
This paper undertakes a critical discourse analysis of Charlie Kirk, a prominent figure in American conservative activism and the founder of Turning Point USA (TPUSA). While Kirk presents himself as…
Fifty brands of Cereals and No Democratic Choices
"We will not allow the Iranian regime to allow its clerical elites to have a shopping spree in New York while the Iranian people endure poverty, crumbling infrastructure, and dire…
I Think Therefore I Am
The unsettled uncertain world My dear Professor John Scales Avery, It is the 25th of Tir[1] (mid-July). On this night of a half-moon, I am sitting down to write you…
How I’ve Learned to be a Social Socialist: Thriving by Not Minding My Own Business
How many of you have met socialists who look like the one at the top of the article? I have and there are plenty like this. It was in the…
Winter of Stillness and Companionship
When the world drew its borders closed and cities fell silent, I found myself in Voronovo, a place suspended between earth and sky, where the air itself seemed to hold…
Arts/Literature
Unmaking the Figure of the Working Girl: Finding Agency in Precarious Spaces in Paromita Vohra’s Working Girls
This is a review of Paromita Vohra’s documentary movie, "The Working Girls". The study focuses on women engaged in precarious forms of labour that are not recognised as legitimate work…
WE ALL NEED the SAME, Not Color and Everybody Hurts
There is no needfor fearno need and no roomfor hatredin the heart of trust. And language of the heartis beautiful.There is no needto denyto obstruct, obscureto destroyto pile up wallsto…
Thandakaaranyam: A Critical Review
Thandakaaranyam, written and directed by Athiyan Athirai, is a small, strong story with an elaborate screenplay, which captures corruption, systemic oppression and exploitation of wildlife (plants and animals) and Adivasi…
A New Chapter for a Timeless Story: Hansal Mehta’s ‘Gandhi’ Captivates TIFF 2025
Some stories are timeless, and Mohandas Gandhi's is one of them. Though his life has been extensively chronicled in books, museums, and countless documentaries, Hansal Mehta’s new series Gandhi offers…
The Testimony of a Wild Soul
There are films that pass through us like fleeting stories, and there are films that remain, unsettling and luminous, as if they have revealed something about the human condition itself.…
Translation of an Autumnal Song: Sharat Tomar Arun Alor Anjali
“Autumn, Your Offering of Dawn’s Golden Light” Notes: This is a popular autumn-themed poem dedicated to nature that expresses a deep fascination and appreciation for the season. Autumn in Bengal…
Book Review
How not to write a history book, the Audrey Truschke way
There are good history books and bad. The book "Aurangzeb the Man and the Myth" written by U.S. based Audrey Truschke is a good example of bad writing, of how…
Book Review- Caste: a global story by Suraj Milind Yengde
Book Review- Caste: a global story by Suraj Milind Yengde, Penguin Random House India, 2025, (Hardback) Mapping anti-caste global solidarity Suraj Milind Yengde in his new book, 'Caste: a Global…
Book Review: “Bangladesh: A Polarized and Divided Nation?” by Dr. Habib Siddiqui
As the title suggests, this book is about Bangladesh—its historical journey, present challenges, and future prospects. Dr. Habib Siddiqui offers a compelling and deeply researched analysis of the forces that…
Periyar-Caste, Nation and Socialism: An Innovative Approach to Commemorate a Movement
S.V. Rajadurai and Vidya Bhushan Rawat’s joint venture of bringing out a book on the most original iconoclast of South Asia Periyar EVR entitled ‘ Periyar : Caste, Nation and…
Kanu Sanyal, The First Naxal
For the last three days, I have been reading a book called "The First Naxal," written by Bapaditya Paul, the Siliguri correspondent for the Calcuta-based English daily, The Statesman. The…
Rajiv Gandhi: the misunderstood visionary
Remembering the leader who placed national interest above politics yet paid the price for his trust and ideals. On the occasion of Rajiv Gandhi's 81st birth anniversary, India once again…
Editor's Picks
Breaking Bread With A Nun: One Day in the Life of the Nun Who Accused Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Rape
The lucrative milleage that sensational stories afford to all kinds of birds hovering around them is arithmetic .Arithmetics is the currency for viewers,readers and analysts. It takes deep sensitivity ,…
Solidarity journalism and solidarity economy are the need of the hour
Speech given at the webinar on the 5th Anniversary of Keraleeyam, Webportal Let me begin with two rhetorical questions: Why do we do journalism? What really is media? I will…
K.P Sasi Memorial Webinar: “15th August: The Hindu Rashtra is here. What comes next?”
Background: As India marks another Independence Day, the fourth in the series of webinars organised by Countercurrents.org in memory of the late K.P. Sasi will confront an uncomfortable truth: the…
Gaza, I write this in total Despair!
I write this in total despair. I don’t generally write articles. I’m an editor. I let others speak through my website, Countercurrents.org. Only when no one else is standing up,…
Recipes for Revolution, Protein for Power, Meat for Change
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you—then you eat them." —Adapted for the Protein Revolution Introduction India's marginalized communities have been denied not just…
The Plot Against America
How a Dangerous Ideology Born From the Libertarian Movement Stands Ready to Seize America As I write this in early 2025, a quiet revolution is unfolding within the U.S. government.…
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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