Aman Namra

Apr 14, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Michael Hudson |Thomas Klikauer |Aman Namra

The progress of democracy has been one of the noblest chapters of the history of humanity. When true democracy progresses, this also leads to steadily increasing possibilities for equality and justice in society. This however is not acceptable to those sections that have concentrated wealth and privilege among themselves and they often have a tendency to resist this.

Apr 12, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Saurav Sarkar |Bharat Dogra |Arun Mitra |Aman Namra

One of the foremost accomplishments of the industrial age is the “immense progress against extreme poverty.” “Extreme poverty” is defined by the World Bank as a person living on less than $2.15 per day using 2017 prices. This figure has seen a sharp decline over the last two centuries—from almost 80 percent of the world’s population living in extreme poverty in 1820 to only about 10 percent living in these conditions by 2019.

Apr 5, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Michael Hudson |Thomas Klikauer |Aman Namra |Abdulrahim P Vijapur

Although the Magna Carta typically is depicted as the birth of England’s fight to create democracy, the 13th-century struggle was to establish what would become the House of Lords, not the House of Commons. The papacy’s role as organizer of the Crusades empowered it to ask for—indeed, to demand—tithes from churches and royal tax assessments from realms ruled by the warlord dynasties it had installed and protected.

Apr 4, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Hiren Gohain |Bharat Dogra |P S Sahni |Aman Namra

Was it last year or the year before that the Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa seemed to have had all guns blazing to incinerate the Moghuls,the ‘Miyas’ or the ‘traitors belonging to a certain community.’ The Prevention of Early Marriage Act was passed and implemented in such a drastic manner that couples who had tied the not thirty to forty years back had been hauled up before courts and even jailed.The Bulldozer justice was in full swing appalling even rabid supporters.Leading from the...

Apr 4, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |P S Sahni |Aman Namra |T Navin

Introduction          The national election time in India has started and in June India will have a new government in place based on these election results. These are widely regarded as very important elections for the country. While ideally elections are about considering and debating the various paths of socio-economic development, politics and governance, continuity and change, in practice a comprehensive view on various important issues seldom emerges in various election debates.