Atanu Chakravarty

Jan 6, 2025 | countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Lawrence Wittner |Shajid Khan |Atanu Chakravarty

The largest number of workers in Delhi are construction workers. Women are also employed in construction work in significant numbers. However their presence in more skilled work like that of masons is negligible. Recent interviews with several construction workers in Delhi revealed that the overwhelming majority of them are involved in a constant struggle to meet their basic needs.

Oct 26, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Shajid Khan |Atanu Chakravarty |Dinkar Kapoor |Bhabani Nayak

Guwahati: In the verdant landscapes of Udalguri, nestled along the Himalayan foothills bordering Bhutan in Assam the tea gardens flourish, their leaves destined for tea cups worldwide. Yet behind every leaf lies a narrative often overshadowed—a story of resilience, sacrifice, and generations bound by labor. Among these tales is that of 50-year-old Jhirgi Tanti Loha, a plucker at the Goodricke-owned Orangajuli Tea Estate, who earns a modest daily wage of Rs 250.

Oct 20, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Suresh Khairnar |Maureen Murphy |Atanu Chakravarty |Ranjan Solomon

Friends, this is the month of October in which the Bhagalpur riots which started on 24th October 1989 are completing 35 years! And recently a riot was carried out in Bahraich, Uttar Pradesh on the occasion of Durga Puja immersion! There has been a difference in 35 years, earlier riots were carried out by a few people in a few streets and localities! Now thousands of people are carrying out riots, attacking minority communities with traditional weapons! Looting and killing! Gujarat riots...

Oct 20, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Atanu Chakravarty |Dinkar Kapoor |Bhabani Nayak |Bhargav Oza

India, as people are being constantly told now, fetched the tag of the fastest growing economy having strong macroeconomic fundamentals with an average Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 7.2 percent, a comfortable current account deficit with an average of 1 and 2 percent of GDP and also a general government fiscal deficit under control. On the contrary, India is also amongst the 10 worst countries in terms of workers’ rights in 2020, according to the International Trade Union Confederation.

Aug 19, 2024 | couriernewsroom.com | Atanu Chakravarty

By Atanu ChakravartyAs a Democratic strategist, one of the first things you learn is that you need to harness the power of our diverse, messy, passionate, and scattered coalition to win. You learn campaigns are about addition – bringing more and different voices into the fold.