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Heat, Debt, Migration: The Real Drivers of India’s Farm Crisis
India’s farm crisis is fundamentally about climate change. Extreme weather, not just pricing or policy failures, now reshapes agriculture more rapidly than traditional frameworks respond. Yet public debate remains trapped in MSPs and subsidies, missing that climate change is the…
Mamata Banerjee is preparing for a Major Political Battle to Regain Her Ground
Socialist George Fernandes earned the iconic “giant killer” moniker after defeating the powerful Congress stalwart and “uncrowned king of Bombay” S.K. Patil in the 1967 Lok Sabha elections and emerging as a powerful national leader. But it would be a…
Cockroach Janta Party, Satire, and the Constitutional Limits of Online Censorship
The “Cockroach Janta Party” (CJP) is an expression, not a judgment. It made every viewer a judge. Unfortunately, it has become a victim of the system. While satire is a form of critical expression, it is also part of freedom…
Remembering Kartar Singh Sarabha: Surrey Vigil Links Ghadar Legacy With Palestine Solidarity
On Sunday, May 24, the members of Surdel Rock 4 Palestine remembered a hero of the Ghadar movement. Kartar Singh Sarabha was one of the cofounders of Ghadar Party, which was established in the US in 1913. The organization was…
The Weight of Becoming Someone’s Safety
Once, during a conversation, my PhD supervisor asked a group of us what our greatest fear was. People answered casually. Some feared failure, some feared loneliness, some feared losing people they loved. When it was my turn, he smiled gently…
Blocked From Mecca – How Gaza’s Siege Targets the Sacred
There is something profoundly barbaric about preventing a besieged people from reaching God. Israel’s blockade of Gaza has now denied Palestinians the Hajj pilgrimage for the third consecutive year - turning one of Islam’s holiest obligations into another casualty of…
Venezuela Under Siege: Defending the Bolivarian Revolution Against US Imperialism
In response to recent developments in Venezuela under imperialist siege, international solidarity activists should adopt a stance that does not inadvertently reinforce Washington’s drive for domination. Our central responsibility is not to adjudicate every tactical decision made under siege conditions,…
Regime Change Through Indictment: Raúl Castro and the BTTR Flights
Revealing a steely yet erratic contempt of the law, the US Department of Justice is showing, again, how it became the spear carrier for kooky ideas and vengeful projects. No leader is seemingly safe from an indictment if the personal…
The Violence Behind the Wars: Why Conflicts Keep Expanding
Increasing concern has been expressed in recent times regarding the several dangerous ongoing wars and civil wars and the possibilities of their escalation and expansion. While any discourse motivated by peace objectives is most welcome, we argue here that a…
A federal middle path for NEET
The recurring controversies surrounding NEET-UG have pushed India into a difficult educational debate. On one side are those who defend a centralized national examination in the name of uniformity and merit. On the other side are critics who believe that…
India
Heat, Debt, Migration: The Real Drivers of India’s Farm Crisis
India’s farm crisis is fundamentally about climate change. Extreme weather, not just pricing or policy failures, now reshapes agriculture more rapidly than traditional frameworks respond. Yet public debate remains trapped…
Mamata Banerjee is preparing for a Major Political Battle to Regain Her Ground
Socialist George Fernandes earned the iconic “giant killer” moniker after defeating the powerful Congress stalwart and “uncrowned king of Bombay” S.K. Patil in the 1967 Lok Sabha elections and emerging…
Cockroach Janta Party, Satire, and the Constitutional Limits of Online Censorship
The “Cockroach Janta Party” (CJP) is an expression, not a judgment. It made every viewer a judge. Unfortunately, it has become a victim of the system. While satire is a…
Remembering Kartar Singh Sarabha: Surrey Vigil Links Ghadar Legacy With Palestine Solidarity
On Sunday, May 24, the members of Surdel Rock 4 Palestine remembered a hero of the Ghadar movement. Kartar Singh Sarabha was one of the cofounders of Ghadar Party, which…
A federal middle path for NEET
The recurring controversies surrounding NEET-UG have pushed India into a difficult educational debate. On one side are those who defend a centralized national examination in the name of uniformity and…
Strategic Selfhood and the Post-Western Order: Reimagining Indian Foreign Policy
As the liberal international order fragments under the pressures of nationalism, multipolar competition, and postcolonial assertion, India emerges as a pivotal actor in shaping a new global equilibrium. The five…
World
The Violence Behind the Wars: Why Conflicts Keep Expanding
Increasing concern has been expressed in recent times regarding the several dangerous ongoing wars and civil wars and the possibilities of their escalation and expansion. While any discourse motivated by…
Red Alert!–Urgent Peace Steps Needed to Prevent the Baltic Crisis from Blowing Over into the Most Dangerous War
Can the Baltic countries and their border with Russia and Belarus become the scene of the most dangerous war of present times? Without sounding too alarmist, it needs to be…
The Tax System That Works for Everyone Except the People Who Need to Pay It
Jeff Bezos paid zero federal income taxes in 2007 and again in 2011. Elon Musk paid nothing in 2018. George Soros went three years in a row without a federal…
Ongoing Effects of Post-Colonialism on African Nations
Until gaining independence, the Sahell nations of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso have been among the poorest countries in Africa. They were known as French West Africa, having been colonized during…
Magical Majorca and its Tourist Monoculture
Majorca (Mallorca) adorns the Mediterranean Sea as one of the largest Spanish Balearic Islands, where small hills rise and fall into the sea. Beautiful cliffs whisper the fantasies of the…
Trump and Musk Rob the Poorest Children to Pay for War Crimes
A skeptical friend reading The New York Times asked me why columnist Nicholas Kristof keeps writing columns about recurring poverty in less developed countries. My answer is simple. Because he keeps going to these…
Globalisation
How Nordic Clean Air and Welfare Are Paid for by the Global South
Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden spend 25-30 per cent of GDP on public social services, well above the OECD average of 20 per cent. Residents receive cradle-to-grave welfare like universal…
Bangladeshi Fashion Workers and a German law
While the original whitewashing was simply the painting of a surface – such as a house – with a lime-based mixture for sanitation, more recently whitewashing has come to mean…
WTO Talks Threaten Food Security and Farmer Livelihoods in India
The Fourteenth Ministerial Meeting of the WTO will begin in Yaoundé, Cameroon, on 26 March 2026. The discussions at the WTO have far-reaching consequences for Indian farmers. A. Public Stock…
A Timely Warning to Asia on Far Reaching Adverse Impacts of Recent US Trade Deals on Sovereignty, Economy, Farming, Environment and Health
One of the important stated aims of high and arbitrary increases announced by the USA in recent times is to increase market access of US farmers in Asian countries, but…
The Globalized Elite Are Perpetuating Local Neo-Colonial Plunder
In the decades since the formal end of colonialism, nations across the Global South have proudly waved the banner of independence, self-reliance, decolonization, and now—deglobalization. The rhetoric of national empowerment,…
80 years is enough: Fight for food, land, and climate justice! Shut down the IMF-World Bank!
Rural peoples’ movements and communities demand the shutdown of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. Over the past 80 years, imperialist governments and their transnational corporations (TNCs) have…
Human Rights
Girijana Sangham of Srikakulam condemns the attack on tribal peasants of Billamaada village by land-grabbers backed by the State machinery
Logo of Organization of Rural Poor (GPS- Grameena Pedala Sangham) Girijana Sangham of Srikakulam, now divided intoSrikakulam, Vizianagaram, Parvathipuram and Manyam districts, issued the press statement, given below. It is…
Silencing Baloch Voices: Violence Against Writers, Journalists, and Intellectuals in Balochistan
Abstract This paper examines the persistent targeting of Baloch writers, intellectuals, and journalists within the broader context of political conflict and human rights violations in Pakistan’s Balochistan province. Drawing on…
Stop Chenchu Displacement In Amrabad Tiger Reserve, Urges E A S Sarma
The Chenchu relocation scheme implemented by the Telangana government in Amrabad Tiger Reserve in Nagarkurnool District violates the core principle of maintaing "coexistence" in resolving human-wildlife conflict. It infringes the…
Kalahandi Arrests, Tribal Resistance, and the Human Cost of Development
The arrest of 21 villagers from Talampadar in Thuamul Rampur, Kalahandi, and their custodial confinement for over two months appears to be a stark demonstration of the “power of the…
India’s Anti-Terror Law and the Punishment of the Unconvicted
The statistics released by the government paint a troubling picture. From 2019 to 2023, India arrested 10,440 individuals using its strictest anti-terror law, but only 335 were convicted. This number…
Amnesty International’s report says executions rose by 78%, due to 10 countries
At a time, the global community is ambitiously moving towards a `death penalty- free’ world, where more than half the world’s countries abolished it, while more than two-thirds are abolitionist…
Imperialism
Venezuela Under Siege: Defending the Bolivarian Revolution Against US Imperialism
In response to recent developments in Venezuela under imperialist siege, international solidarity activists should adopt a stance that does not inadvertently reinforce Washington’s drive for domination. Our central responsibility is…
Regime Change Through Indictment: Raúl Castro and the BTTR Flights
Revealing a steely yet erratic contempt of the law, the US Department of Justice is showing, again, how it became the spear carrier for kooky ideas and vengeful projects. No…
Pete Hegseth’s Desperate Crusade for Masculine Validation: Failed Wars and the Secretary of War’s Flailing Identity
Earlier this year, President Donald Trump surveyed his top military brass on the prospect of making war in Iran. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine urged caution, presciently…
U.S. Troops in Poland – An Indecisive Move by an Overstretched Imperial Power
Are the moves or announcements regarding reduction and, later, re-deployment of U.S troops in Poland reflect an indecision of the Empire? Does it echo an indecisive state of a part…
Alex Saab and the fragility of the solidarity movement
The recent deportation of Alex Saab from Caracas to the U.S. on May 18, 2026, has generated shock, confusion, anger, and intense debate across sectors of the international solidarity movement…
A Global War on Children
“It’s got no anything,” President Donald Trump said of Somalia in a recent xenophobic rant. “All they do is run around shooting each other.” As is true of so much with this…
Communal Harmony
Rise of Communalism
Communalism in India traces its roots back to the colonial era wherein the divide and rule politics of the colonial government sowed the seeds of an ever-growing and persistent problem.…
India’s Deepening Communal Divide Threatens Social Fabric and Future Stability
The Nation Divided,The Future At Risk. India, which is famous for its diversity, is tending to be divided along communal lines instead of being held together by the pluralistic tradition.…
A Decade of Quiet Service: How a Small-Town Initiative Nurtures Unity and Care for the Marginalised
While some social organizations gain wide recognition, many others work quietly in small towns and villages. Though less visible, their sustained efforts make a significant contribution by supporting important causes…
Urgent Appeal to Delhi Police: Act Against Hate Speech and Safeguard Communal Harmony Ahead of Eid in Uttam Nagar
To Shri Satish Golcha The Commissioner of Police, Delhi Email: [email protected] Police Headquarters, 10th Floor, Tower 1, Jai Singh Road,New Delhi 110001. Subject: Ensuring communal harmony, peace and law &…
Rising Hate: Rays of Hope
Communal hate is the most divisive tool. Roughly, the degree of violence is proportional to the prevalence and accentuation of hate. This, in turn, leads to polarization and a situation…
Emerging Solidarity: Majority Voices Rising Against Communal Hate in India
Over the past decade, India has witnessed a troubling intensification of communal polarization. Incidents of vigilante violence, religious profiling, moral policing, economic boycotts, and digitally amplified misinformation have strained the…
Climate Change
Global Warming Icon “Doomsday Glacier” in Trouble
Thwaites “the Doomsday Glacier” West Antarctica is the world’s most famous icon of global warming. It is acting up! Recent satellite images show a massive breakup in-process, to wit: “It’s…
The Climate-Debt Cage: How the Global South Is Paying for the North’s Emissions
In early 2023, Cyclone Freddy tore through Malawi, one of the longest-lasting tropical cyclones ever recorded in the Southern Hemisphere. It killed hundreds of people, displaced hundreds of thousands more,…
Cities’ Silent Killer: Heat Islands, Power Cuts, and Who Bears the Burden
On April 25, 2026, India's power grid hit a record it did not want. Peak electricity demand reached 256.11 gigawatts — surpassing the previous high set just the day before,…
Agriculture Scorched in the Fire of Climate Change
An invisible enemy has now made its home on farmlands across the world and that enemy is the raging fury of rising temperatures. The picture painted by the jointly published…
Why Climate Adaptation Money Never Reaches the Frontlines
The idea behind climate finance is pretty simple: wealthy nations got rich by burning fossil fuels for a couple of hundred years, while poorer nations are now facing the harsh…
Climate Change: A Question of Margin
One way to think about the climate crisis is that we are systematically reducing the margin on which we live on this planet. There were always places where humans couldn’t…
Environmental Protection
The Plastic Waste Crisis Isn’t an Accident—Big Oil Created It
To protect their markets, the petrochemical companies began a decades-long, coordinated effort to sell the public on plastic recycling—despite their knowledge that it was neither technically nor economically viable. We’re…
Enaàtì: Reviving a Dead Lake
Giant Mine is a Monster that has loomed over many generations of Yellowknives Dene. It is constantly changing shape… but its legacy is always destruction and death. – Johanne Black,…
Plastic Pollution Part 2: Eliminate It We Must
How can we reduce toxic plastic pollution, given it is everywhere and in everything from the peaks of the highest mountains and deepest depths of the sea to our internal…
Banda’s Record Heat Raises Urgent Questions on Ken River Mining and Water Diversion
The Hindustan Times, a leading newspaper, reported on May 20, 2026 that twice in this season the country’s highest temperature for a day has been recorded in the city of…
Lawyers and Rights Groups Urge Supreme Court to Reaffirm Constitutional Environmental Protections
Open Letter from Lawyers and Law Professionals to the Hon'ble Chief Justice of India on Environmental Rule of Law and the Future of Constitutional Environmentalism ToThe Hon'ble Chief Justice of…
HRF Demands Halt to Vizag Hyperscale Data Center Over Alleged Environmental Violations
The Human Rights Forum (HRF) calls for immediate stoppage of all ongoing site activities at the proposed Vizag Hyperscale Data Center project of M/s Vizag Hyperscale Data Center Park Limited…
Counter Solutions
Human Contradiction and the Unnecessary Suffering of Our Time
One of the deepest causes of suffering in today’s world is human contradiction. Wars, economic inequality, injustice, exploitation, psychological violence, and social fragmentation are not natural disasters. They are the…
Relearning Water
Toward a New Water Culture in the MENA Region in the Age of Climate Instability Across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), water is far more than a resource.…
The emerging coalition challenging fossil fuel politics outside COP
SANTA MARTA, COLOMBIA — As the US and Israeli war against Iran puts oil at the centre of global concerns, a new intergovernmental coalition is seeking to accelerate the energy…
Why this age of polycrisis demands a new kind of peace
At the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos earlier this year, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a special address, in which he posited a rupture in the post‑World War…
The Wheel of Livelihood, Powered by Sunlight
Banswara, located at the southernmost tip of Rajasthan, is home to Ghаtol block's Delwara Lokiya gram panchayat. In the village of Mahuwal, which falls under this panchayat, lives Baksu Bhai,…
Learning from Traditional Irrigation and Water Conservation
Keeping in view the wider issue of most rainfall being concentrated in a short rainy season and uneven distribution of rain as well as more specific issues of various regions,…
Resource Crisis
The New Age of Resource Competition Needs Transparency
AUCKLAND/MONROVIA – With the global order under strain, the scramble for control of energy and minerals is increasingly framed as a matter of national security. From Venezuela and Greenland to…
Venezuela and Greenland: ‘Smash-and-grab’ diplomacy in the age of scarcity
The United States is now engaged in what I am calling “smash-and-grab” diplomacy in Venezuela, and it will perhaps soon do the same in Greenland, a territory of the Kingdom…
Rising to the Challenge of the Sociopolitical-Environmental-Economic Polycrisis
Ways to Forge a Path and Meet the Moment “I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not…
Managing Water Differently: Algeria Facing Hydrological Extremes
What if, in Algeria, water were no longer seen solely as a scarce resource to exploit or a threat to control, but as an ecological and economic capital to preserve…
A Political Strategy for Degrowth
I agree with what Jason Hickel wrote in a recent blog, that we need a mass political party that would implement a degrowth agenda, and that currently the degrowth movement does…
The tyranny of beer
I have written nine essays about why a collapse is coming, how it will play out and what comes after. As I pointed out at the onset, they were essays in its…
Patriarchy
Dowry Deaths in Affluent India: The Violence Hidden Behind Respectability
In India, dowry is often imagined as a problem rooted in poverty, lack of education, or rural backwardness. Yet, some of the most disturbing cases of dowry harassment and deaths…
Why Gender Inequality Still Haunts the Economy
PRETORIA—Gender inequality in the labor market remains both pervasive and paradoxical. Despite widespread opposition to gender disparities, women’s labor-force participation rate (globally) is still around 24 percentage points below that…
Dowry Deaths in Modern India: A Continuing Failure of Society and Law
Dowry deaths remain one of the gravest human rights concerns in India. Despite constitutional guarantees of equality, increasing women’s education and awareness, and strict anti-dowry laws, thousands of women continue…
Reframing Justice: Feminist Movements Revisit Strategies in a Time of Backlash
Summary report of feminist activists “Reframing Justice, Reviewing Strategies" held in Bangalore, 22 December 2025 This meeting of feminist activists was one of the many ongoing conversations in movement spaces…
Not just an ally: Radical feminism for men
When I was invited to write a chapter on men in feminism for a scholarly book, I told the editors that I would have to include discussion of my writing…
The Invisible Middle: Why Bisexuality Remains Unidentifiable in a Binary World
We live in a social world that claims to value diversity yet remains deeply invested in clarity. Identity is expected to be stable, legible, and easily classified. In this context,…
Palestine
Blocked From Mecca – How Gaza’s Siege Targets the Sacred
There is something profoundly barbaric about preventing a besieged people from reaching God. Israel’s blockade of Gaza has now denied Palestinians the Hajj pilgrimage for the third consecutive year -…
Israel Expands Control Over Nearly 59% of Gaza Despite Ceasefire, Forcing Palestinians Into Ever-Shrinking Areas
Gaza (QNN)- A new report by The Wall Street Journal confirmed that Israeli forces have advanced the so-called “yellow line” westward across Gaza in the seven months since the ceasefire,…
Israel Has Killed 42 Palestinian Police Personnel in Gaza Since Ceasefire: Ministry
Gaza (QNN)- Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip have killed 42 Palestinian police personnel since the so-called ceasefire took effect, according to the Palestinian Interior Ministry, which added that Israel…
With Hate! Israel Destroys The Palestinian Olive Oil Sector
Israel’s government, soldiers and settlers destroyed between 13,000 and 14000 olive trees in the occupied West Bank in the first five months of 2026. The figures are based on different…
Assault on Sumud Flotilla activists and those welcoming them at Bilbao airport requires urgent, transparent investigation
Geneva – Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor strongly condemns the violent intervention carried out today by officers of the Basque regional police force “Ertzaintza” at Bilbao Airport during the reception of…
Acceptable Till it Wasn’t: Itamar Ben-Gvir and the Global Sumud Flotilla
It has been a sorry though predictable exercise. When he lived up (or down) to expectations of atrocious conduct befitting the proud bigot that he is, Israel’s Minister for National…
South Asia
Imran Khan, Pakistan, and the Cowardice of Clever Comrades
The tragedy of a certain Pakistani left is not that it misread Imran Khan. Politics is full of misreadings. The tragedy is that when reality corrected it with the subtlety…
Women Are Reshaping the Insurgency in Balochistan — And the Prospects Are Grim
For decades, the Baloch insurgency followed a familiar script: tribal hierarchies, male guerrillas, and episodic rebellion. That era is ending. A profound and unsettling transformation is underway in Balochistan, where…
India-Pakistan Dialogue – Breaking the Logic of Hostility
Just as this article was being written, news broke of a suicide bombing targeting a train in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, killing at least 24 people and injuring dozens more. The…
Urgency of Forging New Friendships in South Asia
South Asia region comprises 8 countries—India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Maldives. The population of this region is around 1.95 billion, quite close to 2 billion. While…
Pakistan’s Identity Makeovers: De-Islamising place names is the new fashion in town
If there were an Olympic event for “Most Frequent National Reinvention,” Pakistan would not just win gold—it would demand the medal be renamed, Islamised, de‑Islamised, and then restored to its…
The Poisoned Promise: Why 1947’s Partition Has Become a Catastrophe for Muslims
Seventy-seven years ago this week, the British Cabinet affixed its approval to Lord Louis Mountbatten’s frenzied plan to cleave the Indian subcontinent in two. The deadline was ten months away.…
Annihilate Caste
When Capitalism Fuses with Caste: The Globalization of India’s Enclosed Class
Contemporary debates on Indian political economy often treat caste and class as parallel systems of oppression that occasionally intersect. Yet a growing body of Ambedkarite and critical scholarship argues that…
On Theory and Practice of the Double Stage: Marx, Ambedkar, Gramsci, Foucault and Caste’s Schizophrenic Modernity
In lieu of an introduction This essay was written as a contribution to the theoretical foundations of caste studies, a field that has, in recent decades, produced vital scholarship but…
The ‘No Caste’ Story from Telangana
The Telangana socio-economic, Educational, Employment, political and Caste survey complete report was released by the Telangana Government on 15 April, 2026. The Government also released two volumes of Independent Expert…
Reclaiming B. R. Ambedkar: Nation, Morality, and the Unfinished Struggle for Social Democracy
Why Dr. Ambedkar? There are numerous tangible and historically grounded reasons for remembering B. R. Ambedkar. However, among the most salient and analytically significant aspects that distinguish him from other…
Baba Saheb’s Birth Anniversary: Whither Annihilation of Caste
As we will celebrate Babasaheb Ambedkar’s birth anniversary on 14th April (2026), it is also time to think as to what is the status of major teaching of Babasaheb about ‘annihilation…
A Dalit Was Beaten, The Court Said He No Longer Was One
In the villages of Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur district, where Madiga families have for generations tanned hides and buried the dead, Chintada Anand thought the law might finally see him. A…
Life/Philosophy
The Weight of Becoming Someone’s Safety
Once, during a conversation, my PhD supervisor asked a group of us what our greatest fear was. People answered casually. Some feared failure, some feared loneliness, some feared losing people…
Krishna Bandyopadhyay: Torchbearer of Liberation Struggles Till the Very End
Organizer of the Naxalbari movement, lifelong torchbearer of communism and human struggle, Krishna Bandyopadhyay breathed her last at a private hospital in Kolkata at 7:40 pm on 15 May 2026.…
Food Product Marketing Policy and South–South Cooperation
The Big Picture Worldwide ultra processed food product (UPF) consumption is rising sharply. Analyses of Euromonitor International's food sales data from 93 countries, showed that annual per capita sales of…
Deconstructing Robert Spencer: Essentialism, Sharia, and the Imperial Weaponisation of Women’s Rights
There are two kinds of cruelty on display in the ongoing debate about the Taliban's May 2026 "Principles of Separation Between Spouses" — Decree No. 18. The first cruelty is…
Chinese Marxism: Academic Courses and Exchanges with Global Marxist Scholars
The Fourth World Congress on Marxism, themed "Marxism and Human Civilization," was held at Peking University on October 11, 2025. The event gathered more than 400 domestic scholars and over…
What the Global Obsession With Fictional Men Reveals About Modern Love
Open Instagram reels today and it almost feels like the world is collectively grieving over fictional men. One reel shows Garrett Graham waiting patiently instead of reacting with anger. Another…
Arts/Literature
Baburao Bagul Taking Marathi Literature to the Global Stage
Baburao Bagul was a distinguished Marathi writer from Maharashtra. He was a pioneering figure in Dalit literature in Marathi and played an extraordinarily significant role in Indian short fiction towards…
An Al Mahmud Poem: Kobita Emon — Poetry is Like That
Translation by Zeenat Khan Poetry is a reminiscence of youth. Just like my mother’s pale face; a yellow bird at rest upon the Neem*1 tree My sweet younger siblings keeping…
Now is the Time
Now is the time to say it, as loud as possible, so that everybody will hear it. Our world is run by fools— yes, fools, unscrupulous, unrepentant fools— who, with…
Modern Balochi Literature: Memory, Mourning, and Resistance
Modern Balochi literature has emerged as one of the most powerful traditions of resistance in South Asia. Over the past several decades, it has evolved from a regional literary practice…
‘The Last Tenant’ is a Masterclass in Indian Cinema
‘The Last Tenant’ is a disturbing depiction of the dark secrets of our everyday life in a feudal, patriarchal, and capitalist society. After 25 years, the lost-and-found VHS tape of…
Taar Smriti [Memories in the Shade]: A Translation of Al Mahmud’s Poem
Translation No one sought her out at first thought, One did not quite grasp her essence When she graced us clowns with her dignified presence Amid the shop talk, agitation,…
Book Review
Review: “The New September 11th”. Questions Persist Over Trust, Corruption, Big Pharma & COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 Pandemic was associated with the deaths of over 7 million people globally. The rising mortality was addressed by emergency measures to limit transmission of the virus and rapid…
Measuring Constitutional Justice: A Landmark Report on Caste, Inequality and Deprivation in India
In an era of indicators and indices to assess economic, social and even cultural life, a report on economic and social justice is not an unusual thing but quintessential as…
Freedom, Education and Resistance: Revisiting Paulo Freire Through the Life of Stan Swamy
By drawing together the life and ideas of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire and Indian human rights activist Stan Swamy, Pon. Chandran’s review of Cultural Action for Freedom revisits one of…
The Body Keeps the Score: Understanding Trauma Beyond the Mind
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk has become one of the most influential works in contemporary psychology and psychiatry. Subtitled Brain, Mind, and Body in the…
Green Capitalism is for us to define
Review of Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism, Thea Riofrancos, W.W. Norton & Company, 2025 The phrase “Green Dominance” appears many times in this elegantly written and important book on…
A Book That Will Make You Cry Time and Again, But You Must Still Read
An author may write many books, but some books are of the kind that can only be written once in a lifetime. Such is the recent book by James W.…
Editor's Picks
Breaking Bread With A Nun: One Day in the Life of the Nun Who Accused Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Rape
The lucrative milleage that sensational stories afford to all kinds of birds hovering around them is arithmetic .Arithmetics is the currency for viewers,readers and analysts. It takes deep sensitivity ,…
Solidarity journalism and solidarity economy are the need of the hour
Speech given at the webinar on the 5th Anniversary of Keraleeyam, Webportal Let me begin with two rhetorical questions: Why do we do journalism? What really is media? I will answer the…
Gaza, I write this in total Despair!
I write this in total despair. I don’t generally write articles. I’m an editor. I let others speak through my website, Countercurrents.org. Only when no one else is standing up,…
Recipes for Revolution, Protein for Power, Meat for Change
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you—then you eat them." —Adapted for the Protein Revolution Introduction India's marginalized communities have been denied not just…
The Plot Against America
How a Dangerous Ideology Born From the Libertarian Movement Stands Ready to Seize America As I write this in early 2025, a quiet revolution is unfolding within the U.S. government.…
The Fuhrer Is Here
This an article I wrote on 16 December 2002, just after Modi was re-elected as CM of Gujrat for a second term. For some strange reasons, the article can't be…
COVID Response Watch
Shadow of Covid lingers over the erstwhile Kingdom of Cooch Behar
The princely state of Cooch Behar merged with the Dominion of India on August 8, 1949 and became a part of the State of West Bengal on January 1, 1950.…
Public life in MP disrupted by heavy rains linked to climate change
Roads are crumbling, bridges are collapsing and railway lines are flooded . The surging waters from the rivers are drowning entire villages all around. It has rained so much that…
Hanging by a thread, Sheffield of the East
Sometimes it was a rise in pig iron prices due to disruption of supply chains due to the Covid pandemic. Now you can find the Ukraine War as a reason…
Malnutrition and death of children decreased in the system, increased in reality
In Maharashtra, the administration has been claiming that there is a steady decline in the number of malnutrition and child deaths in the state. But, in recent figures that have…
When Forest Rights meets Right to Education
With the horrors of the deadly virus still in the air, this would appear to be like a remarkable fairy tale in the post-Covid pandemic scenario, almost like a dream…
Uttarakhand In Need of Climate Resilient Agriculture Practices
In the last few years, we have been witnessing erratic, unpredictable and unexpected changes in climate, which are more perceptible in the Himalayan region of the country. These changes are…
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