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  • Heroes And Sheroes Of Plural India: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain0

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    • September 3, 2020

    Countercurrents       3 September 2020 by Nivedita Dwivedi This article is part of a series called “Heroes And Sheroes Of Plural India” under #AnHourForCommunalHramony campaign to celebrate the Heroes and Sheroes who struggled to shape modern India in all its plurality.  Today we celebrate Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain a pioneering woman literary person who also

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  • Israel Will Never Allow Pakistan Have Access To UAE’s F-350

    by Haider Abbas — August 26, 2020 When US made UAE and Israel to normalise their bi-lateral relations, on August 14, 2020, within ten days when the flames of Beirut, Lebanon had not even got doused, the under-cut deal which was made was that US would sell its F-35 stealth fighter jets to UAE, and

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  • Jammu & Kashmir: One Year after Abrogation of Article 370- Increasing Alienation, Relentless Repression, Simmering Conflict0

    by People’s Union For Civil Liberties — August 13, 2020 Original image courtesy : Vikar Syed PUCL appeals that the Government of India urgently listen to the people of J&K, initiate dialogue and restore peace  Withdraw the police state: Restore freedom and democracy in the region   Part A: Overview   It has been over a year since 5th August,

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  • Israel Threatens Pakistan and Saudi Arabia Ditches Pakistan on Kashmir0

    Countercurrents by Haider Abbas — August 12, 2020 The day when Lebanon blasts occurred i.e. August 4, 2020, the same day a news was floated that Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is clandestinely pursuing a nuclear-agenda with the help of China 1, only three days later on August 7, 2020, another  headline donned the world media that the

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  • Regimes Without Reason and Conscience0

    in World — by Bhabani Shankar Nayak — August 1, 2020 The world is silently witnessing the erosion of democratic, progressive, secular and liberal cultures of governance. The contemporary governments are becoming more authoritarian and threaten the multicultural mosaic of societies around the world. The governing and non-governing elites falsely argue that democracy breeds inefficiency

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  • Sri Preston Kulkarni’s RSS Problem0

    Countercurrents by Pieter Friedrich — August 10, 2020 US leadership of India’s fascist movement backs Texas Democrat In August 2019, Congressman Khanna charted a new course for the Indian-American diaspora when he commented on reportage about Tulsi Gabbard’s RSS links, stating: “It’s the duty of every American politician of Hindu faith to stand for pluralism, reject

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  • Such A Temple Would Not Have Been Acceptable To Ram And Should Not Be Acceptable To A Common Hindu0

    Countercurrents by Sandeep Pandey — August 8, 2020 Co-Written by Arundhati Dhuru and Sandeep Pandey Ram has been described as Maryada Purushottam, the most virtuous among men. He left his kingdom merely because he didn’t want to hurt the sentiments of his step mother and went on a 14 years exile. It was not in his character

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  • India: Congress party’s ‘Contribution’ to build Ram Temple in Ayodhya0

    in India — by Vidya Bhushan Rawat — August 6, 2020 Those who expect political class to be a ‘revolutionary’ and ‘radically’ ‘secular’ live in great illusion and should form their ‘own’ outfits which their own families will not support. Intellectualism and politics, frankly do not go together. Politics is sentiments, emotions and all the Saas-Bahu masala that we love to

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  • Kashmir; A year after0

    in India — by Shafi Ahmad — August 2, 2020 In about a week’s time abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcating of erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir will complete one year. The ruling party of India BJP has decided to celebrate the event in a big way. It was 5th August 2019 when Indian

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  • Sri Lanka: A Choice Between Existence And Extinction For The Tamils0

    by Thambu Kanagasabai — July 22, 2020 The forthcoming general election on August 5th, 2020 is crucial for the Tamils for their survival as a race and lives with respect, equal rights and dignity, and as a nation in Sri Lanka as Rajapaksas. Ranil Wickremasinghe. Sajith Premadasa and Buddhist clergy are openly advocating and moving

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  • India’s Illegitimate Daughter0

    in Annihilate Caste — by Bijaya Biswal — July 21, 2020 “Because of the ascendancy of lawlessness, Krishna, The family women are corrupted; When women are corrupted, O Krishna, The intermixture of caste is born. Intermixture brings to hell The family destroyers and the family, too; The ancestors of these indeed fall, Deprived of offerings

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  • Policeman as the mighty hero: How cinema normalises violence by Policemen?0

    by Sanchit Srivastava — July 19, 2020 Countercurrents It is high time one questions the eulogization of police brutality by cinema as it justifies custodial deaths and encounters. The custodial death of Jeyaraj and Fenix had led to a lot of protests in some parts of the country but did not gain a momentum that

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  • Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia Calls for The Release of Varavara Rao0

    in Human Rights — by Press Release — July 18, 2020 Countercurrents We have watched with growing horror the treatment meted out to the 81 years old Revolutionary Poet, Varavara Rao by the Indian state. Varavara Rao has been incarcerated in Taloja jail in Mumbai for almost two years. According to the latest media reports

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  • Oppose US Moves To Drag India-China Conflict Into Its Indo-Pacific Strategy0

    in India — by Ramakrishnan — July 17, 2020 Countercurrents Human Rights violation in Tibet  is a bogey. It is an alibi for interference by US.  PM Modi had said, less than one year ago, that the  Mahabalipuram (Chennai) summit (Oct 11-12, 2019) had begun “a New Era of Cooperation between the two countries”.   

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