The horrifically brutal and inhuman act of torture and rape perpetrated by Thakur men on a young Dalit woman in Haathras, Uttar Pradesh, tears at the soul and claws the conscience. It provokes violent thoughts and words and makes it impossible to not imagine a proportional response of the same barbaric extent as the ultimate self-defensive justice. This feeling is[Read More…]
Dalit and Bahujan lives, safety, and dignity continue to expendable in Uttar Pradesh (U.P). It is the ideological and geopolitical heartland of the ‘Hindu Rashtra’ model of the political nation-state, and the suppression and relentless alienation of Dalits and Muslims is central to its machinations. U.P was the state with the highest recorded atrocities against Dalits according to NCRB data[Read More…]
On 1 June, 2020, Devika, a Dalit child of fourteen from Kerala committed suicide by burning herself alive for want of a functioning television set on which to continue her studies. And now she is a name, a picture, and a tragic spectacle, like so many that appear and vanish on the mobile phones, flatscreens, and laptops of the upper[Read More…]
Caste is an institutional ‘lockdown’ that has existed, developed, and fortified itself in an organic relationship with the material conditions of history. In his pioneering journal Mooknayak, Dr. Ambedkar used a potent metaphor to describe the caste system— a multistoried building with no staircase connecting the floors, in which people live and die in the same floor they were born[Read More…]
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Rising Garden Film Festival reaches wider audience virtually amidst pandemic 
‘Sholay’ was a landmark film but not a classic with a social theme 
The British Prime Minister, Oxford MPs and the Green Party MP on Farmers Protest in India. 
Uniforms 
A Taste of Patriarchy in Speech: Language and Gender 
Contribution of Urban Gardening Can Improve Greatly with A Few Changes 
Comparing Response to Two Important Diseases—Tuberculosis and COVID-19 
Fight against Covid-19: Incompetence or deliberate negligence 
Ultimate Success 
Empire’s Afghan War: A lost war, a profitable war 
Raul Castro steps down, next generation of anti-imperialist leaders take responsibility 
Does Historiography Transcend Anachronism? 
Thrissur Pooram – 2021 
The Dirty Campaign Underlying Ecuador’s “Free and Fair” Election 
The Myth of Peace in the Middle East: Deconstructing the Naturalization Narrative 
U.S. Joins Past Empires In Afghan Graveyard 
India should welcome the end of US occupation of Afghanistan 
Centre’s ordinance: A big blow to cinema 
Indian monsoons becoming more chaotic 
Hindi Cinema Has Not Properly Tapped the Potential of Social Thrillers 
Movements for Improving Internal Strengths, Integrity and Resilience of Rural Communities 
Killing Yemen 
Mohammad Azharuddin was simply the ultimate embodiment of cricketing poetry and grace 
Jean Swanson honoured for standing up for Indian farmers and opposing CAA 
Mumia Abu-Jamal is Scheduled for Open-Heart Surgery –Racism Remains the Greatest Medical Threat to Mumia’s Health 
Exiting Afghanistan: Biden Sets the Date 
As the US plans its Afghan troop withdrawal, what was it all for? 
US: Indian Ocean is not India’s ocean 
Facebook Evaluates Boosts Of Posts That Include Anti-Zionist Speech As Having A “low Quality Attribute” 
Recognition of Palestine is ‘Symbolic’ but also Critical: The Australian Case 
POEM to the EARTH 
Making Sense of a Viral Military 
The Hawks Who Want War With Iran Are Working Overtime 
Decentralisation in Food Security System Can Reduce Hunger and Malnutrition 
Without ‘Annihilation of Caste’, It is Not Possible to Establish an Egalitarian Society in India 
Kumbh Mela: A Super Spreader? 
Support the Struggle of the Farmers. It Is Our Struggle Too! – Part 3 
Mass shootings, racism, video games, Fox News, CNN, Washington DC and Americans’ opinions 
Denis Halliday: A Voice of Reason in an Insane World 
When I founded Countercurrents.org in 2002, Disha Ravi who was arrested for sedition yesterday was a two-year-old toddler. In 2002, the CO2 level in the atmosphere was 370 ppm. Now it is 415 ppm. In just 19 years CO2 levels increased by just over 2ppm/year. The level of cumulative greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, including Methane, Nitrous Oxide etc is[Read More…]
