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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Haider Abbas |Ram Puniyani |Cedric Prakash |Vidyadhar Date
While watching Adolescence, a four-part OTT series at Netflix, it could easily be related what nearly everyone in this world has gone through. Adolescence the pre-young age, which every man or woman, had passed through or has to go through. The series is a must watch, for every student, boy or girl, parents and teachers alike.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Ram Puniyani |Haider Abbas |Cedric Prakash |Vidyadhar Date
As Communal hate is on the rise through the use of History on political battle grounds, new dimensions are being added up to this during the last few years. Apart from the propaganda and indoctrination through RSS Shakha, social media, IT cell of BJP, the mainstream media, particularly many TV channels and now many films have been added up to the prevailing misconceptions among the society. In the recent past Kerala Story, Kashmir files have gripped the society in the mania of hate.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Haider Abbas |Cedric Prakash |Vidyadhar Date |Shiraz Durrani
The film Anora, as it opens, takes viewers for an unbridled voyeurism as a striptease bar is open where topless girls split their legs on silhouettes. Topless girls now are the new norm. Frontal nudity is the new discourse. Anora is recipient of five Oscar Awards 2025, which includes Best Picture. Sean Baker, its Director, won four Oscars for a single film, which is an Academy record.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Suresh Khairnar |Cedric Prakash |Ram Puniyani |Srinivas Katherasala
The second longest serving RSS chief (1940-73), Shri Madhav Sadashivrao Golwalkar, three years after independence, formed his own political entity (1950) which he named Jansangh, which is now called BJP. The purpose behind it was to protect the capitalists, upper class and upper castes.
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Feb 10, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Suresh Khairnar |Cedric Prakash |Ram Puniyani
Khudai Khidmatgar, an organization founded in memory of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan in India in 2011, has been organizing several meetings for inter-faith harmony in various parts of the country in collaboration with various like-minded organizations with continuity. Important roads and markets named after him still remind us of the invaluable legacy of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan in India.
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Feb 2, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Suresh Khairnar |Cedric Prakash |Countercurrents Collective |Phil Pasquini
87 year old Zakia Jafri passed away yesterday on 1st February. But our country’s judiciary did not give her justice till the end. Because the heinous incident of Gulbarg Society was not carried out by just a few agitated mob but a very big personality was behind it. This doubt is arising because despite the fact that the police commissioner of Ahmedabad and the local police officers themselves came to Gulbarg Society and assured Ehsan Jafri, this heinous incident took place.
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Feb 1, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Darini Rajaisngham-Senanayake |Cedric Prakash |Sanjay N. Parate
Moving away from the controversies and contradictions of daily discourse, can we consider what the most sincere and genuine reform in USA, capable of giving real relief to the people of the USA as well as to the rest of the world, will involve?
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Feb 1, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Cedric Prakash |Ram Puniyani |Srinivas Katherasala |Madabhushi Sridhar
On 28 January 2025, the well-known Calcutta daily ‘The Telegraph’ carried an article entitled ‘Rub your eyes: Hindu Rashtra Constitution to be unveiled at Mahakumbh on Basant Panchami’. The seemingly innocuous inside-page article, speaks volumes not only of the insidious yet meticulous plans which are being made, but also of the calculated attempts to destroy the secular character of the nation and ultimately the sanctity of the Constitution of India.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
indiancurrents.org | Alpha Infotech |Jaswant Kaur |Cedric Prakash |Ram Puniyani
Come February 1, we will once again listen to a speech lasting two hours or, perhaps, a little less. Believe it or not, this is certainly one of the most-awaited speeches every year, affecting everyone in the country—be it the rich, the poor, the middle-class salaried employee, the small business owner, children, the elderly, women, and so on.
Expectations for the speech start building from the first day of the calendar year itself.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
indiancurrents.org | Alpha Infotech |Jacob Peenikaparambil |Cedric Prakash |Ram Puniyani
More than two centuries ago, Karl Marx remarked that religion is an opium or a drug that sedates people. During Marx's era, power-hungry individuals and groups misused religion to make people passive and inactive, preventing them from questioning misdeeds, manipulations, and exploitation. When religion becomes a drug, it stifles critical thinking and scientific temper. The Indian Constitution highlights "cultivating scientific temper" as one of the fundamental duties of its citizens.
