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Environment

  • Drinking Water Needs of Wild Life Need  More Care
    Bharat Dogra | April 13, 2021
  • Indigenous Land Grabbed For Solar Power Plant In Assam
    Vasundhara Jairath | April 12, 2021
  • Apple Orchards Should Stick to Sustainable Paths
    Bharat Dogra | April 12, 2021

Featured Stories

  • Japan government will release irradiated water from Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea

    Japan government will release irradiated water from Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea

    by Countercurrents Collective — April 13, 2021

    Contaminated wastewater at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant will be released into the ocean “in around two years,” the Japanese government has announced, despite calls from China and South Korea urging against the move. Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced the move in Tokyo, on Tuesday. He had previously called the release “unavoidable” given the amount of accumulated water over[Read More…]

  • Riot, curfew, protesters besiege Brooklyn Center police department in Minnesota, U.S.

    Riot, curfew, protesters besiege Brooklyn Center police department in Minnesota, U.S.

    by Countercurrents Collective — April 13, 2021

    Flash-bangs and teargas were used to disperse the crowd gathered outside the Brooklyn Center, Minnesota police department, in violation of the curfew declared to stop the riots over the death of Daunte Wright. An hour and 45 minutes after the 7 pm curfew went into effect, police issued a final “unlawful assembly” warning and deployed crowd control weapons. Some of[Read More…]

  • Lok Rang has created an alternative space for Folk artists against indecency and vulgarity

    Lok Rang has created an alternative space for Folk artists against indecency and vulgarity

    by Vidya Bhushan Rawat — April 13, 2021

      Fourteen years ago, when noted author and historian in the world of Hindi language Mr Subhash Chandra Kushwaha took an initiative to create an space for folk artists against the culture of indecency and vulgarity in the name of folk culture particularly in the Bhojpuri heartland, nobody ever assumed that the event would become hugely popular with the masses[Read More…]

  • Human Trafficking & Violence Against Naga Tribal Girls and Women in South India

    Human Trafficking & Violence Against Naga Tribal Girls and Women in South India

    by Ajailiu Niumai — April 13, 2021

    Introduction Human trafficking is not only a modern day slavery but it is a gender-based violence which requires interventions from civil society, local community and law enforcement agency to address it. Trafficking is gender-based violence since it affects girls and women and it is also a human rights violation with major social and psychological impacts for trafficked survivors, their families[Read More…]

  • I A Rehman : The torchbearer of Human Rights Movement in Pakistan

    I A Rehman : The torchbearer of Human Rights Movement in Pakistan

    by Vidya Bhushan Rawat — April 13, 2021

    The passing away of Mr I A Rehman who was also fondly referred as Rehman Saheb, founder of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, a truly people’s Commission on Human Rights is a big loss for the human rights movement in South Asia in general and Pakistan in particular. His was a voice that stood with its head high and with[Read More…]

  • Do Not Let Hindutva Rulers Destroy Heritage Of Communal Unity Of Jallianwala Bagh Martyrs

    Do Not Let Hindutva Rulers Destroy Heritage Of Communal Unity Of Jallianwala Bagh Martyrs

    by Shamsul Islam — April 13, 2021

    The RSS-BJP rulers of India declare India to be a battle-ground between Hinduism and Islam. Muslims have been declared as ‘Internal Threat’ number ONE [RSS ideologue, MS Golwalkar’s Bunch of Thought chapter xvi]. Many of their leading cadres including those who hold high constitutional posts have been conspiring over-time to ignite a civil war between the two communities (they believe[Read More…]

  • Photo by christophercjensen

    The commons

    by Sergio Ruiz Cayuela — April 13, 2021

    The commons is a concept originally used in England during the Middle Ages to designate shared areas (mostly woods and pasture lands) that peasants collectively managed to access basic resources such as firewood, foraged food or grazing for their cattle. In a mostly rural society, peasants relied on the commons for survival. In fact, the appropriation and plunder of the[Read More…]

  • Beautiful Plots: Israel Sabotages the Natanz Nuclear Facility

    Beautiful Plots: Israel Sabotages the Natanz Nuclear Facility

    by Dr Binoy Kampmark — April 13, 2021

    Over the weekend, Iran marked National Nuclear Technology Day.  The stars of the show were going to be new advanced centrifuges at the Natanz uranium enrichment plant.  Unfortunately, the stars did not shine and President Hassan Rouhani and his officials were left with a reminder of the previous time the centrifuges at Natanz crashed.  In 2010, a joint US-Israeli operation[Read More…]

  • A BACK to the FUTURE DIALECTIC

    A BACK to the FUTURE DIALECTIC

    by David Sparenberg — April 13, 2021

    I wish to write a little on a couple of terms, one of which, Ground or Grounding Dimension, I learned from an essay by Larry Dossey, and the other, Floating World, came to me as a designation for America but which I now understand was formerly applied to the urban culture of Edo Japan.  One of these terms implies connectedness,[Read More…]

  • COVID Times Should Not Be Used As A Cover to Push Narrow Interests

    COVID Times Should Not Be Used As A Cover to Push Narrow Interests

    by Bharat Dogra — April 13, 2021

    COVID-19 pandemic as well as the lockdowns which followed in most countries have caused a lot of distress . However the wider bitter reality is that these times were also used to push the narrow interests of very powerful persons and forces. Inequalities have  increased greatly. While tens of millions have suffered great distress and loss of income, the fortunes[Read More…]

World

Japan government will release irradiated water from Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea

Japan government will release irradiated water from Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea

April 13, 2021 — Countercurrents Collective

Contaminated wastewater at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant will be released into the ocean “in around two years,” the Japanese government has announced, despite calls from China and South Korea urging against the move. Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced the move in Tokyo, on Tuesday. He had previously called the release “unavoidable” given the amount of accumulated water over[Read More…]

  • Riot, curfew, protesters besiege Brooklyn Center police department in Minnesota, U.S.

    Riot, curfew, protesters besiege Brooklyn Center police department in Minnesota, U.S.

    April 13, 2021 — Countercurrents Collective
  • Beautiful Plots: Israel Sabotages the Natanz Nuclear Facility

    Beautiful Plots: Israel Sabotages the Natanz Nuclear Facility

    April 13, 2021 — Dr Binoy Kampmark
  • COVID Times Should Not Be Used As A Cover to Push Narrow Interests

    COVID Times Should Not Be Used As A Cover to Push Narrow Interests

    April 13, 2021 — Bharat Dogra
  • Nimble Failure: The Australian COVID-19 Vaccination Program

    Nimble Failure: The Australian COVID-19 Vaccination Program

    April 12, 2021 — Dr Binoy Kampmark

India

Lok Rang has created an alternative space for Folk artists against indecency and vulgarity

Lok Rang has created an alternative space for Folk artists against indecency and vulgarity

April 13, 2021 — Vidya Bhushan Rawat

  Fourteen years ago, when noted author and historian in the world of Hindi language Mr Subhash Chandra Kushwaha took an initiative to create an space for folk artists against the culture of indecency and vulgarity in the name of folk culture particularly in the Bhojpuri heartland, nobody ever assumed that the event would become hugely popular with the masses[Read More…]

  • Do Not Let Hindutva Rulers Destroy Heritage Of Communal Unity Of Jallianwala Bagh Martyrs

    Do Not Let Hindutva Rulers Destroy Heritage Of Communal Unity Of Jallianwala Bagh Martyrs

    April 13, 2021 — Shamsul Islam
  • Democracy and the Rule of Law: A lesson from Norway

    Democracy and the Rule of Law: A lesson from Norway

    April 12, 2021 — E A S Sarma
  • Understanding India’s Migrant Workers’ Crisis through the Prism of Commodity Fetishism

    Understanding India’s Migrant Workers’ Crisis through the Prism of Commodity Fetishism

    April 11, 2021 — Yanis Iqbal
  • Land May Be A Deeply Philosophical Issue But Must Face Practical Realities of This World

    Land May Be A Deeply Philosophical Issue But Must Face Practical Realities of This World

    April 11, 2021 — Bharat Dogra

Globalisation

Free Trade Agreements May Further Aggravate Injustice in International Trade

Free Trade Agreements May Further Aggravate Injustice in International Trade

March 12, 2021 — Bharat Dogra

          In recent years a fierce debate has erupted in several countries regarding the impact of various free trade agreements. It is increasingly realized by people that what was publicized in glowing terms to them has turned out to be very harmful for them while some powerful interests may have gained. People are also realizing how big multinational companies often[Read More…]

  • Unfair Trade Increases Problems of Small Farmers and Hunger in Many Countries

    Unfair Trade Increases Problems of Small Farmers and Hunger in Many Countries

    March 10, 2021 — Bharat Dogra
  • Resisting Various Forms of Increasing Corporate Domination of Farming and Food Systems

    Resisting Various Forms of Increasing Corporate Domination of Farming and Food Systems

    March 10, 2021 — Bharat Dogra
  • The Wolf in Sheep’s Skin: IMF, WTO and WB role in promoting poverty and misery

    The Wolf in Sheep’s Skin: IMF, WTO and WB role in promoting poverty and misery

    February 15, 2021 — Syed Ehtisham
  • Western Aid: Myth and Reality

    Western Aid: Myth and Reality

    February 13, 2021 — Syed Ehtisham

Human Rights

Rohingya Refugees on the move (Image for representational purpose only)

Rohingyas: The tale of an ill-decided fate

April 11, 2021 — Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui

Written by Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui & Abu Zar Ali The Supreme Court of India, by way of an order dated 8th April 2021, allowed the deportation of Rohingyas from the Indian territory. The Government of India had argued that these people were illegal migrants who had crossed the borders from the neighbouring state; and though they enjoyed the equal protection[Read More…]

  • PUCL condemns the Unprecedented Attack on Rights Activists by the State Government of Andhra Pradesh and the NIA

    PUCL condemns the Unprecedented Attack on Rights Activists by the State Government of Andhra Pradesh and the NIA

    April 10, 2021 — People's Union For Civil Liberties
  • Telugu community in Canada raises voice for GN Saibaba

    Telugu community in Canada raises voice for GN Saibaba

    April 8, 2021 — Press Release
  • GASS condemns role of NIA to cover up the Vakapalli rape case

    GASS condemns role of NIA to cover up the Vakapalli rape case

    April 3, 2021 — Ganatantrik Adhikar Surakha Sangathan
  • Activist KV Biju thrashed for campaigning against BJP in Kerala

    Activist KV Biju thrashed for campaigning against BJP in Kerala

    April 2, 2021 — Rosamma Thomas

Imperialism

 Neo-Imperialism and Indigenous People

 Neo-Imperialism and Indigenous People

April 12, 2021 — Syed Ehtisham

                “Suppose there are ten people in this room. Seven are starving, and one is winning medals, and two are doing OK. And I say, ‘Look at these seven people who are starving,’ and you say, ‘Oh, don’t be so negative, no, things are not so bad – look at the other three.’ Really?” Arundhati Roy. Globalization of the economic[Read More…]

  • The Secret Wars of Africa’s Sahel: What Is Behind Mali’s Ongoing Strife

    The Secret Wars of Africa’s Sahel: What Is Behind Mali’s Ongoing Strife

    April 12, 2021 — Dr Ramzy Baroud
  • Neo-colonialism, White Supremacy and the Challenge of China

    Neo-colonialism, White Supremacy and the Challenge of China

    April 6, 2021 — Franklin Frederick
  • “The Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World”

    “The Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World”

    April 5, 2021 — Liz Theoharis
  • (Photo: Mr. Fish / Truthdig)

     A Brief history of Neo-imperialism-History and Methods

    April 4, 2021 — Syed Ehtisham

Communal Harmony

Is Secularism a threat to Traditions of India?

Is Secularism a threat to Traditions of India?

March 18, 2021 — Dr Ram Puniyani

India got independence from British colonial rule on 15th August 1947 after a long struggle which was inclusive and had plural dimensions. Foundation of Indian Constitution is Liberty, Equality, Fraternity and Justice. The values of secularism are deeply ingrained all through and particularly in Articles 14, 19, 22, and 25. It gives us freedom of religion, to practice, preach and[Read More…]

  • Hamid Ansari’s Woes: Plight of Pluralism in India

    Hamid Ansari’s Woes: Plight of Pluralism in India

    February 17, 2021 — Dr Ram Puniyani
  • For Mahatma Gandhi Equal Respect for All Religions Was One of the Most Essential and Non-Negotiable Aspects of the India He Wanted to Create

    For Mahatma Gandhi Equal Respect for All Religions Was One of the Most Essential and Non-Negotiable Aspects of the India He Wanted to Create

    February 2, 2021 — Bharat Dogra
  • Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan: Muslims for Composite Indian Nationalism

    Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan: Muslims for Composite Indian Nationalism

    January 19, 2021 — Dr Ram Puniyani
  • Indian Communalism – A Deep Dive

    Indian Communalism – A Deep Dive

    December 24, 2020 — Hemanty Tudu

Climate Change

Worst drought in modern history may hit Western U.S.

Worst drought in modern history may hit Western U.S.

April 12, 2021 — Countercurrents Collective

Extreme drought may be going to hit across the Western U.S. Some scientists saying the region is on the precipice of permanent drought. In 2000, the Western U.S. entered the beginning of what scientists call a megadrought — the second worst in 1,200 years — triggered by a combination of a natural dry cycle and human-caused climate change. The U.S.[Read More…]

  • How Rich Countries Are Cheating In Climate Change Negotiations

    How Rich Countries Are Cheating In Climate Change Negotiations

    April 10, 2021 — Bharat Dogra
  • Cooling the Planet?

    Cooling the Planet?

    April 8, 2021 — Robert Hunziker
  • Deadly heat waves will be common in South Asia, even at 1.5 degrees of warming

    Deadly heat waves will be common in South Asia, even at 1.5 degrees of warming

    March 26, 2021 — Countercurrents Collective
  • The Greatest Of All Pandemic Is Already Upon Us

    The Greatest Of All Pandemic Is Already Upon Us

    March 19, 2021 — Tom Engelhardt

Environmental Protection

Drinking Water Needs of Wild Life Need  More Care

Drinking Water Needs of Wild Life Need  More Care

April 13, 2021 — Bharat Dogra

As the summer advances, there are increasing reports of acute drinking water shortages from many villages. A recent report from Himachal Pradesh, for example, says that over 400 drinking water schemes of Shimla and over 220 schemes of Mandi have been hit by a spell of dry  weather. This is the situation in early April and the situation is likely[Read More…]

  • Indigenous  Land Grabbed For Solar Power Plant In Assam

    Indigenous Land Grabbed For Solar Power Plant In Assam

    April 12, 2021 — Vasundhara Jairath
  • Apple Orchards Should Stick to Sustainable Paths

    Apple Orchards Should Stick to Sustainable Paths

    April 12, 2021 — Bharat Dogra
  • Butterflies-Why Our Most Beautiful Friends  Are In Rapid Decline?

    Butterflies-Why Our Most Beautiful Friends  Are In Rapid Decline?

    April 11, 2021 — Bharat Dogra
  • Save Pollinators Campaign Needed On Urgent Basis As Bees, Butterflies and Birds Face Increasing Risks

    Save Pollinators Campaign Needed On Urgent Basis As Bees, Butterflies and Birds Face Increasing Risks

    April 10, 2021 — Bharat Dogra

Counter Solutions

Photo by christophercjensen

The commons

April 13, 2021 — Sergio Ruiz Cayuela

The commons is a concept originally used in England during the Middle Ages to designate shared areas (mostly woods and pasture lands) that peasants collectively managed to access basic resources such as firewood, foraged food or grazing for their cattle. In a mostly rural society, peasants relied on the commons for survival. In fact, the appropriation and plunder of the[Read More…]

  • Earth’s Real Treasure

    Earth’s Real Treasure

    April 9, 2021 — Tom Murphy
  • Babulal Gandhi: Over 90 years old and still a hardy farmer

    Babulal Gandhi: Over 90 years old and still a hardy farmer

    April 8, 2021 — Rosamma Thomas
  • For Resolving Farming Crisis, Some Small Farmers Show the Way With Big Achievements

    For Resolving Farming Crisis, Some Small Farmers Show the Way With Big Achievements

    April 1, 2021 — Bharat Dogra
  • The World As It Is And The World As It Could Be

    The World As It Is And The World As It Could Be

    March 29, 2021 — John Scales Avery

Resource Crisis

The Growth Of Fascism Or The Fascism Of Growth?

The Growth Of Fascism Or The Fascism Of Growth?

March 9, 2021 — Juan Bordera

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 extreme right. As a famous German genius said, history repeats itself: first as a tragedy, then as a farce. Perhaps someone will see simple coincidences in the story I am[Read More…]

  •  The Connection Between War and Energy 

     The Connection Between War and Energy 

    March 3, 2021 — Sally Dugman
  • Why Collapse Occurs; Why It May Not Be Far Away

    Why Collapse Occurs; Why It May Not Be Far Away

    February 26, 2021 — Gail Tverberg
  • Fossil Fuel Production Is Reaching Limits in a Strange Way

    Fossil Fuel Production Is Reaching Limits in a Strange Way

    October 16, 2020 — Gail Tverberg
  • Business-as-usual porn – or, We need to talk about collapse

    Business-as-usual porn – or, We need to talk about collapse

    July 19, 2020 — Chris Smaje

Alternative Energy

Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA

Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA

November 6, 2020 — Simon Evans

The world’s best solar power schemes now offer the “cheapest…electricity in history” with the technology cheaper than coal and gas in most major countries. That is according to the International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook 2020. The 464-page outlook, published today by the IEA, also outlines the “extraordinarily turbulent” impact of coronavirus and the “highly uncertain” future of global energy use[Read More…]

  • SMART? – Solar In Massachusetts

    SMART? – Solar In Massachusetts

    June 22, 2020 — Roy Morrison
  • The Beginning of the End for Oil? Energy in a Post-Pandemic World

    The Beginning of the End for Oil? Energy in a Post-Pandemic World

    April 28, 2020 — Michael T Klare
  • A Future Without Fossil Fuels?

    A Future Without Fossil Fuels?

    March 17, 2019 — Bill McKibben
  • The real Energy Return of Crude Oil: smaller than you would have imagined

    The real Energy Return of Crude Oil: smaller than you would have imagined

    March 9, 2019 — Luciano Celi

Patriarchy

Human Trafficking & Violence Against Naga Tribal Girls and Women in South India

Human Trafficking & Violence Against Naga Tribal Girls and Women in South India

April 13, 2021 — Ajailiu Niumai

Introduction Human trafficking is not only a modern day slavery but it is a gender-based violence which requires interventions from civil society, local community and law enforcement agency to address it. Trafficking is gender-based violence since it affects girls and women and it is also a human rights violation with major social and psychological impacts for trafficked survivors, their families[Read More…]

  • Protests against Pakistan Prime Minister’s comment linking rape to how women dress

    Protests against Pakistan Prime Minister’s comment linking rape to how women dress

    April 8, 2021 — Countercurrents Collective
  • Social Media & Women!

    Social Media & Women!

    April 1, 2021 — Nilofar Suhrawardy
  • Turkey quits treaty on violence against women and transgender religious school opens in Pakistan

    Turkey quits treaty on violence against women and transgender religious school opens in Pakistan

    March 25, 2021 — Countercurrents Collective
  • Neoliberal Education and Free-market Feminism in India

    Neoliberal Education and Free-market Feminism in India

    March 21, 2021 — Yanis Iqbal

Palestine

Marwan Barghouti

From His Solitary Confinement, Marwan Barghouti Holds the Key to Fatah’s Future

April 8, 2021 — Dr Ramzy Baroud

If imprisoned Palestinian leader, Marwan Barghouti, becomes the President of the Palestinian Authority (PA), the status quo will change substantially. For Israel, as well as for the current PA President, Mahmoud Abbas, such a scenario is more dangerous than another strong Hamas showing in the upcoming Palestinian parliamentary elections. The long-delayed elections, now scheduled for May 22 and July 31[Read More…]

  • The Nakba of Sheikh Jarrah: How Israel Uses ‘the Law’ to Ethnically Cleanse East Jerusalem

    The Nakba of Sheikh Jarrah: How Israel Uses ‘the Law’ to Ethnically Cleanse East Jerusalem

    March 25, 2021 — Dr Ramzy Baroud
  • Abbas Moves to Stamp out Constructive, Strategic Change within Fatah

    Abbas Moves to Stamp out Constructive, Strategic Change within Fatah

    March 18, 2021 — Rima Najjar
  • Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gestures during a meeting of the UN Security Council at UN headquarters in New York, U.S., February 20, 2018. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

    Elections under Fire: Palestine’s Impossible Democracy Dilemma

    March 11, 2021 — Dr Ramzy Baroud
  • “We Claim Responsibility for the Political Decisions of our Young Son, and our Decision is — NO!”

    “We Claim Responsibility for the Political Decisions of our Young Son, and our Decision is — NO!”

    March 10, 2021 — Rima Najjar

South Asia

 Myanmar’s Citizens Fleeing Persecutions and Violence must be allowed refuge into India 

 Myanmar’s Citizens Fleeing Persecutions and Violence must be allowed refuge into India 

April 8, 2021 — National Alliance of People’s Movements

 It’s more than two months since the Burmese military in a coup on 1 February refused to hand over the power to the National League for Democracy (NLD) after their victory in the November 2020 elections. Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, the army’s commander-in-chief and Myanmar’s de-facto ruler has justified the coup on grounds of large-scale election fraud, though the elections commission has denied[Read More…]

  • China’s Policy Towards Liberation of Bangladesh

    China’s Policy Towards Liberation of Bangladesh

    April 8, 2021 — Bharat Dogra
  • Are RSS Fraternal Ties With Military Junta Behind India’s Soft Stand On Slaughter Of People In Myanmar?

    Are RSS Fraternal Ties With Military Junta Behind India’s Soft Stand On Slaughter Of People In Myanmar?

    April 5, 2021 — Shamsul Islam
  • Bangladesh Liberation: Modi’s Claims: A peep into the past

    Bangladesh Liberation: Modi’s Claims: A peep into the past

    April 5, 2021 — Dr Ram Puniyani
  • Follow-Up Actions Needed to Further Strengthen India-Bangladesh Ties

    Follow-Up Actions Needed to Further Strengthen India-Bangladesh Ties

    April 2, 2021 — Bharat Dogra

Annihilate Caste

The dalit teacher – facing a 360-degree discrimination

The dalit teacher – facing a 360-degree discrimination

April 11, 2021 — Sthabir Khora

Who is a teacher? In a loose sense a teacher would be anybody including Mahatma Gandhi who was not a teacher in any school or college and Ambedkar who was a teacher in a college for some time. On the other hand, only the school teachers are called the teachers in a strict sense and not the university teachers who[Read More…]

  • The Shudra Predicament

    The Shudra Predicament

    April 2, 2021 — Banavath Aravind
  • Shudras And The Central Universities

    Shudras And The Central Universities

    March 27, 2021 — Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
  • Be critical and self-introspecting for progress of Ambedkarite movement

    Be critical and self-introspecting for progress of Ambedkarite movement

    March 21, 2021 — Vivek Sakpal
  • Remembering Baba Saheb’s historic Satyagrah for water rights at Mahad

    Remembering Baba Saheb’s historic Satyagrah for water rights at Mahad

    March 20, 2021 — Vidya Bhushan Rawat

Life/Philosophy

I A Rehman : The torchbearer of Human Rights Movement in Pakistan

I A Rehman : The torchbearer of Human Rights Movement in Pakistan

April 13, 2021 — Vidya Bhushan Rawat

The passing away of Mr I A Rehman who was also fondly referred as Rehman Saheb, founder of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, a truly people’s Commission on Human Rights is a big loss for the human rights movement in South Asia in general and Pakistan in particular. His was a voice that stood with its head high and with[Read More…]

  • A BACK to the FUTURE DIALECTIC

    A BACK to the FUTURE DIALECTIC

    April 13, 2021 — David Sparenberg
  • Homage to legendary Comrade Anuradha Gandhy on 13th death anniversary 

    Homage to legendary Comrade Anuradha Gandhy on 13th death anniversary 

    April 13, 2021 — Harsh Thakor
  • Why Women get obliterated in Kerala renaissance history?

    Why Women get obliterated in Kerala renaissance history?

    April 12, 2021 — K M Seethi
  • Sant Kabir—People’s Poet and Social Reformer Whose Enduring Legacy Still Impacts Millions

    Sant Kabir—People’s Poet and Social Reformer Whose Enduring Legacy Still Impacts Millions

    April 12, 2021 — Bharat Dogra

Arts/Literature

A bird came down to rest

A bird came down to rest

April 6, 2021 — Gita Viswanath

A bird came down to rest on a rocky perch. Turned his head this way — that way. It looks familiar, he thought. the cerulean skies the trees with foliage on tall, slim trunks the large red flowers in bloom. The river gushed white roaring its way down from its birthplace. Through rocky mountains and green hills it cascaded unstoppably.[Read More…]

  • Hindi War Films Which Also Give A Message of Peace

    Hindi War Films Which Also Give A Message of Peace

    April 6, 2021 — Bharat Dogra
  • Resistance in translation

    Resistance in translation

    April 6, 2021 — Sutputra Radheye
  • Why you should see “Shtisel” Now

    Why you should see “Shtisel” Now

    April 5, 2021 — Mohd Aquil
  • Why Raj Kapoor is Much More  Than Just the Greatest Showman  of Hindi Cinema

    Why Raj Kapoor is Much More  Than Just the Greatest Showman  of Hindi Cinema

    April 5, 2021 — Bharat Dogra

Book Review

 Why I am not a Hindu woman: A personal story

 Why I am not a Hindu woman: A personal story

April 13, 2021 — Mucheli Rishvanth Reddy

  Why I am not a Hindu woman: a personal story by Wandana Sonalkar, New Delhi: Women Unlimited, 2021, pp 169. Wandana Sonalkar is a self-proclaimed atheist and in this autobiographical account titled ‘Why I am not a Hindu Woman’, Sonalkar critically reflects on her position on why she has chosen to renounce her religion. This work adds to the[Read More…]

  • Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography (1976). John Toland

    Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography (1976). John Toland

    April 11, 2021 — Amita Basu
  • Mein Kampf (1925; 1926)

    Mein Kampf (1925; 1926)

    April 11, 2021 — Amita Basu
  • Why Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath Remains the Most Memorable Saga of  Displaced Farmers and  Migrating Workers

    Why Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath Remains the Most Memorable Saga of  Displaced Farmers and  Migrating Workers

    April 8, 2021 — Bharat Dogra
  • Aruna In Vienna

    Aruna In Vienna

    April 8, 2021 — Yazhmozhi

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