A Personal Testimony of Kashmiriyat
When Kashmiris are being attacked across India, let me telly you a story about Kashmiriyat. Last summer I was in Kashmir with my family. We were coming back from Sonamarg.…
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Pulwama Attack: Why Nobody Is Questioning The Intelligence Failure?
The Pulwama attack is not a time for revenge as is already happening in many parts of the country. Yesterday, vehicles from Kashmir valley were attacked and set on sire.…
TRAI’s Cable TV Regulation: Coming of Ambani Raj
Remember what happened to the Indian telecom sector after Mukesh Ambani’s Jio Mobile was launched? Jio offered dirt cheap call and data tariff. It destroyed many telecom companies. Some disappeared…
Towards A Common Federal Agenda
2019 Elections are upon us. It is clear that NDA led by Modi is facing an uphill battle. Policies like Demonetisation and haphazard implementation of GST has left Indian economy…
Countercurrents And The Ethics of Mahatma Gandhi
Binu Mathew is the heroic and dedicated editor of the Internet journal “Countercurrents”. He lives in the Kerala Provence of India, which has recently been hit by enormous floods, despite…
Call it by its true name: declare Global Climate Emergency now
Modern industrial societies are having a catastrophic effect on the planet, accelerating contamination of the air, water, and soil, the destruction of terrestrial and marine ecosystems, mass extinction of species,…
Manifesto Of Indian Farmers
Adopted by an assembly representing the farmers of India on the occasion of the historic Kisan Mukti March organised by the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee Delhi, 30 November…
“Divided by barriers, United by blood’’: India Can Be United By Blood!
India is going through a phase of unparalleled hatred to one another according to their religion, caste, culture, linguistic affiliation etc. It need not be that way. We are all…
John Scales Avery Interviews Dr. David Krieger
Dear David, I have long admired your dedicated and heroic life-long work for the complete abolition of nuclear weapons. You did me the great honour of making me an Advisor …
How I Became A Revolutionary And Internationalist:Andre Vltchek
Binu Mathew, Editor of Countercurrents.org interviews Andre Vltchek BM: You are one of the foremost critics of imperialism. Can you tell us how you came to be who you are?…
John Scales Avery Interviews Binu Mathew
John Scales Avery: Dear friend and colleague in the peace movement, dear highly respected and admired Editor Binu Mathew, can you tell us about your childhood and education? What are…
Confessions of a Nonconformist Consumer
The vast array of consumer products available in the modern markets, needs of a large mass of compulsive buyers that merry-go-round in a spending spree. The great engine that produced…
Humans Do Not Have Any Special Rights
This is a speech I prepared to deliver at the Solidarity Media Awards This award was bestowed upon Countercurrents.org and me for the courageous interventions in human rights and citizen’s…
Countercurrents.org Receives Human Rights Award
Countercurrents.org has been awarded this year's Solidarity Media award initiated by Solidarity Youth Movement. Countercurrents receives this special award for 'its courageous interventions in upholding Human Rights and Citizen's Rights'.…
Sabarimala An Upper Caste Conspiracy? Here’re Ten Ways To Defuse It
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has stated that the agitation to prevent entry to women of all ages to Sabarimala temple as per the order of Supreme Court of India…
Sabarimala: Brahmanism’s Last Ditch Battle In Kerala
The only code of law for Hindus is Manu Smriti. IX.3 of Manu Smriti says “Na stree svaatantryam arhati” (a woman does not deserve freedom). Manu Smriti is the code…
Of Cows, Bacteria and ‘Human’ Rights
This article is based on a talk delivered in Hyderabad on 7th October 2018 as part of the 9th memorial meeting of ‘Remembering Balagopal’, an annual event commemorating the…
Post Flood Kerala In The Age of Climate Change And Peak Oil
A month has passed since the mammoth Kerala floods. I’ve travelled through many flood affected areas and talked to many affected people. The loss is huge many of them are…
Kerala Floods, Development And Fossil Fuels
In the light of the devastating floods of 2018 many people are coming forward with suggestions for the future of Kerala's development. I too came up with a ten point…
Kerala Flood And Climate Change
On August 6 a team of climate scientists led by Will Steffen of Australian National University published a paper in the Proceedings of the US National Academy of Science and…
The Kerala deluge: Global warming’s latest act
Ten days of incessant downpour has turned Kerala into a theatre of destruction. 483 deaths, thousands of homes inundated, over a million and a half people in relief camps,…
‘Disaster Fascism’ Being Unfolded In Kerala
Naomi Klein coined the term 'Disaster Capitalism'. After the devastating flood of Kerala the fascist BJP and their parent organisation RSS are coining a new term, 'Disaster Fascism'. It's nothing…
Decade of Kandhamal : Call for Action on Kandhamal Day August 25th, 2018
Dear Friends, We hope you remember the grave communal genocide in Kandhamal in Odisha, which happened in 2008. Barely after eight days after celebration of Independence day, India witnessed the…
Lessons for the environmental movement from Gandhi
Gandhi is not well-known for his views on the environment. Indeed, in his vast output, there is little explicit mention of the environment. Yet, in Gandhi’s views, one finds a…
Over Sixty Organizations Release Poster Demanding Freedom For Chandrashekhar Azad ‘Ravan’
Over sixty organizations have released a poster demanding the release of Dalit activist and Bhim Army leader Chandrashekhar Azad ‘Ravan’ who is incarcerated in Saharanpur jail. Azad is in prison…
Call For Release Of Chandrashekhar Azad ‘Ravan’ – India’s Malcom X!
We the following writers, film makers, artists, students, academics and social movements express our deep concern over the continued, unjust imprisonment of Dalit activist and Bhim Army leader Chandrashekhar Azad…
Kicking Off 2018 With A Pledge
Dear Countercurrents family (present and future)— 2017 was a tough year all around. Hot and cold wars continue, the environment further degrades and Trumpism/Putinism/Modiism reigns. One can get depressed- forlorn…
“The Climate Emergency: Two Time Scales” – John Avery’s Latest Book Free To Download
I am working on a book with the title “THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY: Two time scales”. A pdf file of a first draft of the book can be freely downloaded from…
Adivasis Dance Today: The First Ever FIR Filed Against Durga Puja
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it Evelyn Beatrice Hall Durga pooja and Dussehra may be a day of…
The Bullet Train by Poet Aadhar No: 9876 5432 1001 ( The first Aadhaar linked poem)
There is another Bullet Train. A 7.65 Calibre Make in India model that passes through stations with strange names like Kulburgi South Pansare West and Dhabolkar Central Its destination set…
Dear Gauri….. A Letter To Gauri Lankesh
Dear Gauri, It is 10 days since I wrote to you...2 days ago- September 15th was the International Day of Democracy with the theme Democracy and Conflict Prevention focusing on…
We Are All Responsible For Gauri Lankesh’s Murder: 6 Categories Of Response To Violence
When rationalists are murdered by obscurantists, secularists by religious zealots, and humanists by fascists, people typically react in one of four ways: 1. Mentally register the murder and then…
Heart of Hunger
I don’t know if you came across a piece of news from Kolhapur, Maharashtra, published a few days back in several national dailies. No wonder you might have missed it,…
Demonetisation Fiasco: Time For Political Parties To Step Up
The cat is out of the bag. The data released by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) proves that as was predicted Narendra Modi’s demonetisation was a ‘monumental disaster’. The data…
Jeff Bezos, Global Elites And Revolution
The morning papers bring me the news that Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is the richest person in the world. Actually he overtook Bill Gates for a few hours…
Indian Fascism: Radicalization or Entropy? The Choice Is Ours!
The second book from Countercurrents.org publishing is out. It is a book on the cow politics in India and the resultant lynchings that’s happening around the country. It is titled…
“India United By Blood! Share It, Don’t Spill It” Campaign Springs Up Across India
Our call for #An Hour For Communal Harmony has got wonderful response from around the country. As our first event, blood and organ donation camps will be held in major…
As India Descends Into Darkness Let’s Spend An Hour For Communal Harmony
What happened in Baduria and Basirhat of West Bengal is a warning. What is happening in Darjeeling is a warning. What is happening in Jammu and Kashmir is a warning.…
A Thousand Flowers Should Bloom For Junaid
Junaid this is for you. Junaid this is to assure you that your death will not go in vain. You are a martyr for the idea of India. You are…
Unfurl The Tricolour And Say India Will Not Become ‘Cowistan’, ‘Kaliban’ Will Not Rule Us
When I was in school we used to say a pledge in the morning assembly. It began this way, “India is my country. All Indians are my brothers and sisters….”.…
As Farmers Fight Back In India, Where Are We Headed?
I have a facebook group. It is called “Life in India is cheap, Damn cheap”. I started the group after seeing the death stunts of a circus group without any…
Ambedkar, Nationalism And The Emerging Crises In India
Today is Ambedkar Jayanti. It would be appropriate to take a re-look at Ambedkar's idea of nationalism in the face of virulent Hindutva nationalism in India and also on the…
Interview With John Scales Avery, One Of The Greatest Living Intellectuals On Earth
I’m at the home of one of the greatest living intellectuals on earth. In the cold, windy Copenhagen weather as we ring the bell John Scales Avery opens the door…
The Indomitable Teesta Under Attack….Again
7 in the series JatiIndia: A Flag of Atrocities Caste, Present and Future For more than a quarter century, journalist/activist Teesta Setalvad has worked tirelessly to ensure that India’s Constitution…
Teesta Setalvad: Foot Soldier Of The Indian Constitution
I'm not a hot off the shelf book reader. Most of the books I read are suggestions from my friends or found during my reading or research. When Teesta Setalvad's…
Slumdog Republic
It was always the worst kept secret in India, but has now finally become official – those who run the Republic of India do not need the Public of India…
Modis Operandi: When India Went ‘Keshless’
Much later, historians in the 22nd Century would call it a ‘close shave’ for Indian democracy and a ‘hair razing’ experience for millions of citizens. And yet, when it happened…
Cashless Is Not Casteless
A Cashless, Corruption-free, Cow-friendly India that also Cares for the Poor. As the Narendra Modi regime shoots forth silken promises like buttered popcorn from a hot oven – it is…
Will A Gandhi Like Figure Emerge To Fight Demonetisation?
A dear friend of mine from USA sent me this mail regarding the demonetisation in India. Somebody in your country needs to organize something like Gandhi's salt march against the…
Modi’s New Year Eve Speech: What Comes Next?
I read George Orwell’s ‘1984’ in 1985 when I was a 15 year old. Although the ‘Big Brother’ appearing on screens to announce what people should be doing looked like…
The 2017 Manifesto- We Need Journalists More Than EVER!
Dear Friends- I am sure we can all agree that we live in strange times. For most of us, education and intellectual progress were based on hard mental work, the…
Tomato At 50 paise/Kg! A Windfall or Disaster?
Political analyst Devinder Sharma tweeted that angry farmers in Raigarh district in Chhattisgarh are dumping tomato on highways. The reason? They are getting 50 rupees for a 100 kg batch…
Death By Demonetisation
The abrupt demonetisation of 500 and 1000 rupee notes by the Narendra Modi regime is a drastic move that is staggering in its scale, ambition and repurcussions. The only other…
Economic Emergency In India And What Does That Mean For The Common People
At the stroke of midnight November 9, 2016, Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi imposed an undeclared economic emergency on India. With a stroke of pen he wiped out Rs…
Countercurrents.org Annual Subcription Campaign, Please Support Us!
It’s over a year since I wrote a note of this sort. So many things happened in this period, some good, some very bad. Global warming is alarmingly tottering on…
‘Voices From The Ruins Of Kandhamal’ And Why I Cried After Watching The Film
Kandhamal is not a new subject to me. Countercurrents.org had published an article on 2nd November 2003 by Angana Chatterjee “Orissa: A Gujarat In The making”. It was five years…
Some Reflections On The Twilight Of The Oil Age (Part II)
I call the process we are in an “Oil Pearl Harbour", taking place in a kind of eerie slow motion. This is no longer retrievable. Within roughly ten years the…
Killing The Kashmir Story
Day 8. Kashmir is curfewed. At least 43 civilians are killed. All of them have been identified by the local media. More than 2200 persons are seriously injured, out of…
Some Reflections On The Twilight Of The Oil Age – part I
This three-part post was inspired by Ugo Bardi’s recent post concerning “Will Renewables Ever ReplaceFossils?” and recent discussions within Ugo’s discussion group on how is it that “Economists still don't…
Red Alert: Bengaluru, India’s Technology Capital Headed For System Failure
Recent research by IISc reveals startling numbers on Bangalore’s reckless urbanization and its consequences: during 1973–2016 (1005% concretization or increase of paved surface) has had a telling influence on the…
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