Toxic political environment in Modi’s India makes book on Kareena Kapoor Khan relevant
An event for the launch of “From Nazneen to Naina”, based on the work of the Bollywood diva, held in Surrey on Sunday, November 28 was an eye opener for…
November 2021
Reciting Preamble is not a crime
That way reciting the Constitution’s Preamble has been transformed from text to socially dynamic statement... Against this new method of agitation, authorities slapped various criminal charges including sedition, arrested several…
The Sale of CEL is not justifiable
To Smt Nirmala Sitharaman Union Finance Minister Dear Smt Sitharaman, I understand from news reports (https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/government-clears-sale-of-central-electronics-for-rs210-crore-11638195251682.html) that the PSU, Central Electronics Ltd (CEL) is about to be sold to…
Noam Chomsky Says We Have No Right to Gamble with the Lives of Climate-Vulnerable People: Video
https://youtu.be/rv18HU4CfXQ On October 1, 2021, a month before the kickoff of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, I had the good fortune to spend an hour with Noam Chomsky for…
WHO on Omicron
Britain, Germany and Italy confirm cases of Omicron while other countries suspect cases of their own. Chaos at a Dutch airport exemplified the scattershot response across Europe. A New York…
Imperialist alliance fuels arms race in Indo-Pacific
At the G7 Summit last June, Joe Biden, Boris Johnson and Scott Morrison, representing the U.S., United Kingdom and Australia respectively, met in private talks. The subject was how to…
Biden’s two-faced policy on Yemen war
“This war has to end,” President Biden intoned in his first major foreign policy address at the State Department in early February 2021. He wasn’t talking about the war in…
Farm laws repeal: a sensible decision amid political compulsions
Repealing farm laws by the central government seems to be a political compulsion for upcoming state assembly elections, particularly in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh as the ruling central government could…
Some Unpleasant Points – Part I: MSP
From an Irritatingly Orthodox Marxist Viewpoint [One] Whenever there is a discussion on Minimum Support Price of MSP of Agricultural products two things shadow our mind: Swaminathan committee report, and…
Regaining the Ground,Reclaiming the Network – A Bottom-up Response to HIV
India’s responses to HIV/AIDS through the national AIDS Programme have been widely acclaimed as the most successful public health intervention in its history since the Independence. From 1992 onwards we…
When people with HIV can live normal lives then why 680,000 AIDS deaths in 2020?
When we know how to prevent HIV transmission, and how to keep every person living with HIV healthy, then how can one fathom deaths of at least 680,000 people due…
Mahatma Ayyankali: Trailblazer of Dalit Emancipation
The caste system in India has long been considered as “the most resilient and adaptive system of inequality and oppression ever invented, the most inhuman too, even excluding sections of…
Our present constitutional crisis
Historian Marc Bloch talks of a 'Longue Duree'( long or protracted time) to describe an historical period where inherent contradictions of a socio-cultural system develop slowly,giving it almost a stagnant…
Goading China To Go To War
A number of defence analysts are convinced that the United States of America, supported by Britain and Australia, is goading China to go to war over Taiwan. They point to…
Kindly Support Countercurrents
This year has been one of the toughest. With the raging pandemic, climate crisis, wars, the failure in Glasgow..... We also have moments to celebrate with the victory of the…
Victory For Farmers: Bill To Cancel Farm Laws Passed In Parliament
In a major victory for the agitating farmers in India, a bill to cancel the three contentious farm laws was passed in record time in both houses of the parliament.…
Salute the Mahapanchayat in Mumbai’s Azad Maidan
A historic Shetkari Kamgar Mahapanchayat took place in yesterday in Mumbai's Azad Maidan on November 28th, with at least 100 organisations coming under one umbrella. Peasants, workers, agricultural labourers, women,…
Sudan-Ethiopia Conflict: At least 20 Sudanese Troops Dead: Interference on Tigray issue
At least 20 Sudanese troops have reportedly died following clashes with Ethiopian forces on the countries' shared border. Media reports from the conflict area said: Sudanese soldiers fell into an ambush on…
Taliban: One Hundred Days of Solitude
As the Taliban completes its first hundred days in power, the Western powers are groping for a face-saving formula to engage with the authorities in Kabul with some modicum of…
Media Kashmir narratives
'Those contractors who have been doing business all over the world in the name of "Kashmir shops", do they realize what dilemma this nation is in at the moment? Isn't…
Time to Evaluate Front of Packet Labeling
Poor diet is responsible for more deaths worldwide than any other risk factor, and is a leading cause of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Global estimates suggest that…
Omicron: Take Precautions!
To Shri Rajesh Bhushan Union Health Secretary Dear Shri Bhushan, While we are about to conclude that we longer have to feel concerned about a Covid surge for the third…
Calendar dedicated to farmers’ protest released by Radical Desi
A Canada-based online magazine that covers alternate politics unveiled its annual calendar in Surrey on Saturday, November 27. Dedicated to the year-long farmers’ protest in India, the 2022 calendar bears…
“We don’t want to die of thirst, but we don’t want to betray: normalization is a big betrayal.”
Resistance, as a way of life, can help change the current image portrayed by the political and security elites in all of the Arab countries … Image: “We don’t want…
Testing the waters: Russia explores reconfiguring Gulf security
Russia hopes to blow new life into a proposal for a multilateral security architecture in the Gulf, with the tacit approval of the Biden administration. If successful, the initiative would help stabilise…
Japanese Stealth Aircraft Carriers?
Although unfamiliar with the details, most people recognize the purpose of stealth technology is to make aircraft effectively immune to radar detection at normal combat ranges. The question is, would…
“Despite 74 years of Independence, the sewer worker is still a slave and caught in the shackles of Casteism”
New Delhi, November 27th: A “Roundtable with Sewer Workers" was organized on 27th November, Saturday, 2021 in New Delhi from 2:00 pm- 5:00 pm in which sewer workers from Delhi…
Public Sector and The Pandemic: Why Government Interventions Are Essential
In an interview of Joseph Stiglitz that appeared in Investopedia on 23 April 2020 he said “Covid 19 reminds us that when we have a crisis we turn to collective…
Open Letter to the Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi
“Selective” advocacy of Rights violations?” "When daily incidents of hate crimes, lynchings, caste atrocities and state violations become common place, Every egregious violation deserves our attention" Dear Sir, You had…
Land Acquisition Ordinance: Government-Corporate nexus against people and democracy
(This article was written in January 2015 and published in Mainstream Weekly. The article is released again in the view of the ongoing farmers movement, and the frequent land acquisitions…
Salute massive Commemorative protest of Bhartiya Kisan Union (Ugrahan) at Delhi Border
BKU (Ekta Ugrahan) commemorated the annual anniversary of Delhi Morcha at Pakaura Chowk, New Delhi with a huge historic public rally, constituting around 50000 persons. A most illustrative example of…
Fewer camels, low prices mar Rajasthan’s Pushkar camel fair
Rajasthan’s over 100 years old Pushkar Mela is one of the most famous and largest camel fairs in the world. Due to the Covid pandemic though, the event has taken a big hit…
Foreseeable Risk: Omicron Makes its Viral Debut
It has been written about more times than any care to remember. Pliny the Elder, that old cheek, told us that Africa always tended to bring forth something new: Semper…
National Kisan Commission
Nation for Farmers (NFF) announces the process for formation of a ‘National Kisan Commission’ Nation for Farmers and other collaborating platforms and organizations announce the process of formation of a…
Elitism is Not the Answer to Populism: On ‘Anti-Vaxxers’ and Mistrust in Government
While “anti-vaxxers” continue to clash with police in various European cities, a whole media discourse has been formulated around the political leanings of these angry crowds, describing them in matter-of-fact…
Crisis, which, whose?
Crises deluge this region considered a sub-continent in Asia. The questions are: (1) Which crises? (2) Whose crises are these? (3) At which stage are these crises? A question, also,…
Integrity Due Diligence Necessary To Curb Illegal Mining
If a bridge collapses soon after construction, the contractor would be blacklisted. If someone cheats a bank, they will not be allowed to manage public moneys, whether in a bank,…
Examining the Future Readership of Hasan Azizul Huq, a Writer of Suffering Humanity
Hasan Azizul Huq (1939-2021), one of the leading Bangladeshi writers, passed away on 15 November 2021, leaving behind him an exceptional body of works. He was mainly a short story…
Cardboard Houses
How sad the rain sounds On the cardboard roofs How sad that my people live In cardboard houses The worker is coming down [from the hills] Almost dragging his…
Goa’s villagers return to fishing to survive tourism downturn
It is a picture postcard scene of Goa’s big, best-selling beaches like Calangute, Anjuna and Vagator, overflowing, with Indian tourists herding together, eating and drinking, and frolicking in the sea.…
The ‘Dharitri Youth Conclave 2021’: In search of ecological citizenship
The progressive Odia daily newspaper 'Dharitri’ has organised ‘Odisha Youth Conclave on Climate Change’ while celebrating its 48th birthday on 24th of November 2021. In a profit driven mass media…
Global Food Prices Reach Highest Level In More Than A Decade
Food prices rose to a 10-year high last month, hitting peak since July 2011 and extending the 30% increase recorded last year, according to a Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)…
November 26; The Indian Constitution Day – How RSS Denigrated It: A Peep Into Its Archives
The Constituent Assembly of India finalized the Constitution of India on November 26, 1949 which is celebrated as the CONSTITUTION DAY. This Constitution promised new born Indian Republic a polity…
Bi-Amma: India’s Forgotten ‘Mother’ of Non-violent Protests
The 97th death anniversary of Abadi Banu Begum passed subduedly and unobtrusively, much like every other year in the past. Bi-Amma, which was the popular sobriquet bestowed upon her by comrades,…
Off to the Solomon Islands: Australia’s Civilizers Get Busy
A small riot. Unrest. Risk of collapse. All given a ballooning effect and inflated for policy makers across the ocean. Before much time elapses, Australian security forces are skirting off…
Killer Apes and Global Ecocide
by Thomas Klikauer and Meg Young About four million years ago, we departed from our closest ancestors – the chimpanzees. This allowed us to become what we are today: human beings,…
The rise of ‘Godi Media’ in the U.S.!
In a recent exchange with a leading publisher of an ethnic Indian newspaper, I inquired why he hasn't carried a news item on the Indian Americans protesting before the United…
COVID lockdowns offer an opportunity to reorient our idea of education
by Sandeep Pandey, Seema Muniz and Gopal Krishna Verma Some people are disheartened with the disruption in children’s education due to the menace of Covid and the successive lockdowns. While…
Supreme Court’s Suggestion of Community Kitchens to Reduce Hunger Should be Widely Welcomed
The Supreme Court has made a strong recommendation for organizing community kitchens in various parts of country wherever these are needed to prevent hunger. This is the most direct way…
Nehru And History
Nehru is now the favourite punching bag for all who call for change.Time was when he was nothing short of a demi-god.But now there has been such a volley of…
Grant bail to Atiq-ur-Rehman on health grounds
The PUCL is monitoring with extreme concern the precarious health condition of Atiq Ur Rehman who was unjustly accused and arrested by the UP police in early October, 2020 for…
While You Celebrate, Do Not Forget: All Little Victories Amidst All Big Defeats till Final Victory
Bangalore, April 18-19, 2016. That Bangalore which forgot the heydays of working class fight there in late 1970s – early 1980s, and those Bangalorians who were more connected to the…
Time for India and other developing nations to quit WTO
The 12th ministerial conference (MC12) of the World Trade Organization will take place from June 12, 2022 at Geneva, Switzerland.The negotiation note distributed on the different issues on the agenda…
Amazon Workers Plan Global Black Friday Strike Demanding Better Wages And Tax Accountability
Amazon employees worldwide are planning to strike on one of the busiest shopping days of the year The strikes are set to take place at factories, warehouses, data centers, corporate offices…
Cuba: Five Years After Fidel
Fidel Castro died five years ago, but I feel like decades have passed in Cuba since November 25, 2016. Trump arrived and passed slowly with his string of sanctions that…
The Big Industry That COP26 Failed to Tackle
The impact of agriculture on climate change is significant. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the agriculture sector is responsible for 10 percent of the total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions,…
The Indian Farmers Defend the Rights of Farmers Everywhere
On November 19, 2021, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, “[W]e have decided to repeal all three agricultural laws.” The prime minister was referring to the three agriculture laws that were rushed through…
Now, talks best bet for MSP, reforms
The three farmer laws, that were once named "reform package," will go out of statute book through a cabinet resolution and a bill to repeal in Parliament, as promised by…
We Do Exist: Why the Palestinian Voice Should Take Center Stage
At a recent New York event, the President of the Foreign Press Association Ian Williams declared, before an approving audience, that it is time “to reclaim the narrative on Palestine”.…
CDRO condemns the arrest of Khurram Parvez
Khurram Parvez, a leading human rights defender and President of the Jammu & Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS), was arrested yesterday, on the 22nd of November 2021. The arrest…
Annual Subscription
Join Countercurrents Annual Fund Raising Campaign and help us