Lessons of 2020 Serve as 2021 Manifesto for the Indian Christian Community
Year 2020 began, as every New year does with the promise of hope and possibilities. It soon turned into a nightmare. COVID- 19 ravaged our world. Even the mightiest nations…
December 2020
Tribute To Jiddu Krishnamurti On His 125th Birth Anniversary
The spiritual sage Jiddu Krishnamurti who wished to transform mankind at the very root-Tribute on 125th birth anniversary year This year in May we celebrated the 125th birthday of Jiddu…
Lenin at 150
Hail Immortal Comrade Lenin and the inextinguishable flame of Leninism on 150th birth centenary year On April 22nd we rejoiced the birth centenary of the figure who shaped the fate…
Settlement on Farm Issues Should Have A Clause Each on Ecologically Protective Agriculture and Landless Farm Workers
The farmer-government talks on December 30 indicated that some progress on a negotiated settlement is being made. This is good for farming and good for democracy. However even at this…
Narratives in Conflict: The Rise of the Palestinian Literary Narrative
Without a doubt, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is one of the most irresolvable conflicts of our time. It has been the subject of the world’s top conflict resolution convoys, committees and UN-backed peace talks. As yet, it seems to only get worse with time. And the reason why this is…
Strengthen Dalit-Muslim Unity
Memorandum to the Honorable Member of Legislative Assembly, Makhdoompur Mr. Satish Kumar Member of Legislative Assembly Makhdoompur Date: 29th December, 2020 Subject: Actions required for strengthening unity…
Handling An Acid Attack
We discuss here the role of the victim and the people around IT IS VERY EASY TO MINIMISE THE DAMAGE! ALL THE INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN BELOW LOOK TOO MANY AND TOO…
Dilemmas of Education in J & K: Government Teacher, Enrollment Drive and BPL Parent
The education and the department of human resource is always a hot topic in Kashmir valley but from last one month it has been more. It is being discussed at…
2020: 10 Good News, Bad News
GOOD NEWS 1)Trump will not be the President of USA in the new year and beyond 2) Vaccine for COVID 19 is in the market and more on the way…
Democracy and Indian Muslims Living In Peril
Introduction India with 1 plus billion people stands the second-largest democratic country in the world regardless of having diversities in each and every States / UTs of it. It has…
Make Victorious the Historic Farmers’ Struggle!
An appeal of Progressive Organization of People (POP) to the people of India Farmers’ agitation against the three agrarian laws of the Modi government has snow balled into a major…
Tribute Baba Bhuja Singh And Nidhan Singh Gudhani
Tribute to legendary Comrades Baba Bhuja Singh on 50th martyrdom anniversary year and Nidhan Singh Gudhani Kalan on birth centenary year. Comrades who were crusaders for liberation against proto-fascsim and…
Farwell to terrible year 2020
Indian media fraternity sets to bid farewell to the Covid-19 pandemic year 2020 with the horrible statistics of journo-killings with some dangerous countries for working journalists in the world. The…
The Julian Assange Pardon Drive
The odds are stacked against Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks publisher who faces the grimmest of prospects come January 4. On that day, the unsympathetic judicial head of District Judge Vanessa…
Why Senators Must Reject Avril Haines for Intelligence
Written by Medea Benjamin and Marcy Winograd Even before President-Elect Joe Biden sets foot in the White House, the Senate Intelligence Committee may start hearings on his nomination of Avril…
‘In South Asia, marginal farmers are disproportionately affected by climate change’
Climate change is a global issue but we should not forget that the impacts of climate change are highly localized. Most policies around water and irrigation issues are poorly informed…
Reflections 2020
The year 2020 will go down in modern history as the one ravaged from a pandemic, and riddled with deep political, racial, economic and social divisions. Most notably, the COVID-19…
Emerging Unity of Farmers and Workers Will Strengthen Our Democracy
After many distressing developments in the country some good news had to simply emerge during 2020 to end the year on a note of hope and it has finally emerged…
Secularism under manifold challenges, says Irfan Engineer
“Secularism in India faces manifold challenges that require multilevel interventions to make it socially relevant and sustainable,” according to Irfan Engineer, noted Human Rights activist and Director, Centre for the…
Habeas-Corpus-Free Bail Resistant Multi-Year Detentions For Activists Like Sudhir Dhawale For No Crime
Written by Surabhi Agarwal, Sandeep Pandey and Kushagra Kumar Sudhir Dhawale, a writer, poet, artist, perennial protestor and a Dalit leader, was arrested and jailed in mid-2018. He remains in…
Diversion of Food Crops to Industrial Use Can be Very Harmful
There has been an increasing tendency worldwide to divert a lot of high-nutrition food crops to industrial uses. In addition many other food crops are not being used as staple…
The Final Hours of Ethiopia’s TPLF Regime
With their army destroyed and their last, best troops wiped out in one morning on the outskirts of their capital Mekele the last remnants of the leadership of Ethiopia’s TPLF…
Is the farmers scared of the prime minister?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been continuously attacking the opposition regarding the ongoing farmers’ movement at the borders of the capital. He has constantly made accusations that the opposition is…
Religion Meets Climate Change
Global warming is the biggest challenge of all time. It impacts every living species. However, the inherent dangers are very difficult to comprehend, as such, people brush it off as…
Humbug!!!
Maybe Scrooge, for the wrong reasons, did have something in his use of ' Humbug'. It powerfully expressed the utter disdain he had. Sadly for Scrooge, it was the opposite…
From Ambedkar To The Farmers’ Protests
The K.G.Kannabiran Memorial Lecture, 2020, “Death of Democratic Institutions”, was delivered by Justice B.Sudarshan Reddy, retired Supreme Court Judge. Listening to the lecture led this writer to consider democracy and…
A Dalit and a Brahmin
“I hear the lower castes are finding this lack of monsoons rather difficult for their crops,” droned Aashka’s father at their lavish supper (as usual), in the midst of her…
Multipolarity and the Prospect for Socialism
With the onset of the American empire’s decline, China is fast emerging as a global actor capable of steering the world towards a multipolar arrangement. The country has repeatedly affirmed…
Reminiscences of Ranjan
The outrageous murder of Right to Information (RTI) activist Mr Ranjan Kumar Das signals new waves of authoritarian ruling class onslaught on democratic movements in Odisha. The state government has…
UN’s Failure To Protect Tamil Civilians: Tamil War Victims Demand Remedial Justice
The UNHRC Resolutions 30/1 of 2015 and 40/1 after so much hard work, negotiations and after extension for six years have now produced zero achievement and the endless sufferings of…
Legendary Comrade Sunder Navalkar of Mumbai turns 100
A landmark of one of the most remarkable activists of our land who at even at 100 illuminates spark of Liberation Comrade Sunder Navalkar turning 100 on September 16th this…
Budget Analysis is Important, But We Must Also Realize Its Limitations
Budget analysis is an important and increasingly frequent part of economic analysis. In the days preceding and following the presentation of the union budget in particular the discourse on economic…
Who will protect those who protect us? Dissecting the miserable conditions of the ASHA workers
Written by: Kishan Kashyap, Shubham Agarwal, Vaishak P If there is one thing that the Government has been exceptionally good at - it is its public relations and image management.…
Central acts will facilitate corporates
Draft prepared ahead of round of talks scheduled for December 29, 2020 Note from the editor: In a recent response to an RTI plea filed by Jatin Desai, the…
UNHRC 46th Session In February/March 2021 – Judgement day for Sri Lanka and its War Victims
The forthcoming 46th UNHRC Sessions in February/March 2021 holds the key to uphold accountability, justice and human rights in Sri Lanka while halting Sri Lanka’s history of evasions and denials …
Kerala and Farmers: Modi’s Claim Refuted
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's claim that the left parties did not implement APMC Act is firmly being refuted by Kerala government and farmer's union. Prime Minister Narendra Modi while announcing…
Women’s Woe: Masking Insidious Domestic Abuse under Covid-19 Crisis
Written by Divya Sharma & Dr Anita Banerjee Engulfing the globe under its grim, the unprecedented Corona Virus (COVID-19) has surprisingly shown an upsurge in domestic violence cases worldwide. India…
Why should not government and people hold corporate abuses to account?
Written by Shobha Shukla, Bobby Ramakant and Sandeep Pandey Think about this: Should a government come up with laws to protect a corporation against liability lawsuits, or should it come…
Dialogue On Farmers’ Bill – Cartoon
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Why Immediate Resolving of Farmer Issues is A Must—New Talks Bring Hope
New hopes of resolving the important issues raised by the farmers emerged on December 26, with both sides agreeing to restart of talks, after stalemate- like conditions had emerged following…
Review: “The Most Dangerous Book Ever Published: Deadly Deception Exposed!”
Famed anti-racist Jewish American journalist I.F. Stone opined “Governments lie” and those 2 words summarize the message of “The Most Dangerous Book Ever Published: Deadly Deception Exposed!” This iconoclastic 766-page…
Jana Gana Mana Adhinayaka
This is a follow-up to my 2003 article in defense of Rabindranath Tagore’s Jana Gana Mana Adhinayaka as a homage to his Motherland (Tagore and Jana Gana Mana, Countercurrents- https://www.countercurrents.org/comm-chatterjee310803.htm). …
From Babri Mosque to Ram Temple: Historical perspective
This 5th August (2020) the Prime Minister of India did the ground breaking ceremony (Bhumi Pujan) for Ram Temple in Ayodhya. The Prime Minster compared the 15th August; when India…
How media’s narrative of ‘Lawlessness-in- Bengal’ aims at helping BJP
As the assembly elections near in West Bengal, the media is busy constructing and spreading a new narrative that the TMC Government under Mamta Banerjee has failed to maintain…
Imposed restrictions, protests and the future of Hong Kong
The Hong Kong protests of 2019, also known as Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement, drew huge attention from many across the world. In fact, Hong Kong protests, which started in…
What Time Is It in Lockdown?
Here where I dwell in the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice has just occurred. The darkest day of the year in a dark year. A few days ago was also…
Sugathakumari: No Longer A Phone Call Away
There are some human presences in life that you are unable to trace the beginning. It is like they have been with you always- like a tree whose silent, yet…
How long for civilization?
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein. As the world is trying to hopefully recover from the tragic effects of…
Array of Rangoli Portrait Painting By Stalwart ‘Mrs. Bageshri Parikh’ – Her Tryst With Psychoanalysis
Conglomeration of Portrait Paintings drawn by Mrs. Bageshri Parikh,- Row One-Rabindranath Tagore, Mona Lisa, Ramakrishna Paramhauns Row Two-Mother Teressa, Lokmanya Tilak, Mahatma Gandhi,Indira Gandhi, Pandit Jasraj, Row Three-Sushma Sawaraj, Atal…
Health Imperialism and Discriminatory International Laws
“Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promise, for never intending to go beyond promise costs nothing.” - Edmund Burke Joe Biden’s statements on resuscitating the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of…
Farmers’ crusade against farm-harm Acts
It is a threat to food security. It has potential to make owners of agriculture land up to five acres, slaves and sub-servants of corporate agricultural contractors. It deprives annadaatas…
Say Pandemic, Deny Rights: How Pandemic has facilitated India’s further turn to Less Democracy ?
The Metropolitan Magistrate's recent damaging observation vis-a-vis Delhi Police while acquitting 36 foreigners associated with Tablighi Jamaat who were accused of flouting Covid 19 protocols have largely gone unnoticed. The…
The cost of voicing dissent: UAPA against G.N. Saibaba, Gautam Navlakha, Father Stan Swamy and others
In 2016, a Supreme Court Judge asked the state of Maharashtra, “Do you want to extract a pound of flesh?” The statement was directed against the state for contesting the…
Engagement for environment
All aware citizens know the state of Bangladesh environment. Bangladesh courts of law regularly rule in favor of environment. Bangladesh media cover the area every day. Bangladesh environment activists regularly…
Happy New French Revolution!
As 2021 arrives I am not planning to wish anyone a ‘Happy New Year’ while everything wrong with the world remains deeply entrenched. And anyway, nothing really changes with the…
How Jesus Christ should be ressurrected today on his birthday?
As a crusader of liberation of man and not a performer of miracles The real Jesus Christ and what is professed today by the Church or Christianity at large today…
Domestic Violence in India: Has anything changed?
While the entire nation went into a lockdown on March 25, 2020 in a fight against the novel coronavirus, not many could have foreseen that the lockdown would lead to…
Climate crisis: Lakes to shrink
Although sea levels are rising due to the climate crisis and threatening near-coastal infrastructures, higher temperatures in other areas are having exactly the opposite effect. The water levels are falling…
A mandate from Christmas 2020: Let love and justice meet
On Christmas Day 2019, at a Christmas Eve Mass, parishioners were offered a powerful, yet challenging message on how we as everyday Christians must understand and observe Christmas. The…
Where is Justice?—Most Farmers and Informal Workers Have No Pension After Toiling All Their Life
Girdhari worked as a farmer for over four decades, toiling in scorching summers and shivering winters. At the age of 62 he could no longer work and was confined more…
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