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Divya Guha It has come to light that according to its profit and loss statement for the quarter ended March 2019, Tata Consultancy Services donated Rs 220 crore to an unnamed beneficiary. This makes the infotech consultant the single largest political donor. TCS has outdone Prudent Electoral Trust, which supplied a total…
Shabina Akhtar At a time when faculty members both present and past have even written to the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind, requesting him to intervene and stall the appointment of Dr Feroze Khan in Banaras Hindu University (BHU)’s Sanskrit Dharam Vidya Vigyaan department, West Bengal seems to embracing its Sanskrit professors hailing…
Press Release Ganatantrik Adhikar Surakhya Sangathan, Odisha A four-member fact-finding team of Ganatantrik Adhikar Surakhya Sangathan, Odisha visited Gadakujanga, Dhinkia, Noliasahi and Govindapur villages of Jagatsinghpur district on 19th November 2019. The government of Odisha is handing over the land already acquired for POSCO to Jindal Steel Works Ltd for setting up of a…
Women against Sexual Violence and State Repression Between the November 5 and 10, 2019, a nine person team comprising of Nisha Biswas, Ajita Rao, Swapna, Maheen Mirza, Bondita, Nikita Agarwal, Seema, Sohini and Shreya K from Women against Sexual Violence and State repression (WSS) visited the state of Assam in order to understand the…
Countercurrents Collective Over 1.9 million people have been left out of the final National Register of Citizens or NRC – a list intended to identify legal residents and weed out illegal immigrants from Assam. Those left out of the NRC can appeal to the Foreigners Tribunal within 120 days. After that those left out…
For quite a few years, the people of Latin America and the Caribbean have been confronted by a new advance of imperialism and capitalism, which has revived a process of recolonization in the region. The agenda of ‘reforms’ driven by these various neoliberal and neofascist projects is mirrored from country to country. As these projects…
Maya Ajchura Chipana I am writing this because I don’t see many Bolivian voices represented in the media. Here is my story. I saw Evo Morales speak once in La Paz. So many people came out. The boys climbed trees to trying to get a glimpse of him. After each speech, there was…
Parvin Sultana On April 8, a Muslim man was assaulted by a mob in Assam on the suspicion of serving beef. Later, he was also forced to eat a piece of pork. Shaukat Ali runs an eatery at the bi-weekly market (haat) that convenes in Baihata Chariali every Thursday and Sunday. He sells meat…
Sushil Aaron Narendra Modi does not agree but the world has never hesitated in recognising Jawaharlal Nehru as a historical figure who left a mark on India and the world. When Nehru died in 1964, the New York Times plainly referred to him as the “maker of modern India”; the Economist ran a cover…
Fiona Edwards With the backing of the U.S. government, a highly sophisticated and well-resourced coup has succeeded in overthrowing Bolivia’s legitimate and democratically elected president Evo Morales. This massive blow against democracy and social progress comes after more than a decade of U.S. intervention aimed at destabilising Bolivia and overthrowing its successful socialist government….
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