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This article was originally published by thewire.in. We are publishing it in the light of journalist Ravish Kumar winning the 2019 Ramon Magsaysay Award. What was once considered unacceptable and unethical in the public domain has been made entirely acceptable and ethical by the mainstream media in the last five years. Not only is the…
Avijit Pathak “Most learning happens casually, and even most intentional learning is not the result of programmed instruction,” said Ivan Illich. It is not easy to remain secure with power. The intoxication of power breeds insecurity. And hence, it is not surprising that each regime of power has its own discourse of education through which…
Rahul Gandhi Warns of Institutional Take Over of India Countercurrents Collective Taking responsibility for the Congress party’s poor performance in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Rahul Gandhi, on, 3 July, 2019, resigned from the post of the Congress President. He posted a four-page letter on Twitter, officially announcing his resignation as the Congress President. In…
Well it’s happened. It’s real. Mr Jared Kushner, the son-in-law and Senior Advisor of President Trump has delivered 136 pages of lies, suppositions and conjuring tricks to seduce or compel us Palestinians to accept our fate and surrender our rights. What rights? As far as this document is concerned Palestinians have no rights whatsoever and…
It is everywhere. In a few years, it has metastasized like a cancer, on all continents. Its fervent proponents and ill-informed supporters call it populism or nationalism. In the Italy, Germany, or Spain of the 1930s, however, this ideology of exclusion and fear, defined by a hatred of the other, together with a tyrannical executive…
National Emergency was imposed on the country by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on June 25-26, 1975, and it lasted for 19 months. This period is considered as ”dark times’ for Indian democratic polity. Indira Gandhi claimed that Jaiprakash Narayan’s call to the armed forces to disobey the ‘illegal’ orders of Congress rulers had created…
The last sun of the century sets amidst the blood-red colours of the West and the whirlwind of hatred. The naked passion of self-love of Nations, in its drunken delirium of greed is dancing to the clash of steel and the howling verses of vengeance. Rabindranath Tagore, The Sunset of the Century The forebodings voiced…
Recently, the 75th Anniversary of the invasion of Normandy was commemorated. But here are some little known facts about World War II. The sixty or seventy million men, women and children didn’t die because of Adolph Hitler, they perished because the wealthy in the US and Western Europe empowered Adolph Hitler to make war. The…
The victory of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is a victory of the ideology that impedes the establishment of a true social democracy. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, the author of India’s constitution, wrote, “Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of…
When the saffron brigade had laid siege to the Bababudangiri Dargah in Karnataka, calling it the ‘Ayodhya of the South’, journalist Gauri Lankesh mobilised writers and intellectuals to rally against the Hindutva surge in the historical site. In this piece published on December 3, 2003 in Lankesh Patrike, Gauri had recalled how Girish Karnad had…
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