Chaman Lal

Aug 4, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Hiren Gohain |Bharat Dogra |John Graversgaard |Chaman Lal

How Not To Write History: A Review of The Quest for Modern Assam ( A History 1942 -2000) by Arupjyoti Saikia (Penguin Random House,2023)Unlike postmodern sceptics who would like to class history as fiction,professional historians believe that historical narratives throw some kind of light on what had actually occurred in a given period of the past,and how.The ‘why’ of it is never ignored though there may be much less confidence in such pronouncements.

Jul 26, 2024 | mainstreamweekly.net | Chaman Lal

To mark 23rd July birth anniversary of Azad Two names are most evocative names among Indian revolutionaries of freedom struggle. Both were comrade in arms. Chandershekhar Azad was the Commander-in-chief of Hindustan Socialist Republican Army (HSRA), who was named as Balraj in Bhagat Singh handwritten posters on the assassination of Lahore ASP, J P Saunders. Another significant document-Philosophy of the Bomb.

Jul 26, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |John Graversgaard |Chaman Lal |Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd

Aruna Roy’s memoir published by HarperCollins under the title ‘The Personal is Political –An Activist’s Memoir’ has attracted a lot of attention within a short time, and for good reason. A part of the reason relates to what Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze say in their comment on the book, “Aruna Roy reflects on a life of deep engagement, weaving the personal and the political.

Jul 24, 2024 | countercurrents.org | John Graversgaard |Chaman Lal |Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd |Kim Scipes

This book deserves to be an inspiration for all freedom loving people in Kenya and internationally. In these days we see brave people in action against the reactionary regime of Ruto. Continuing the long time unfinished class struggle in this neocolonialist capitalist state. The author Shiraz Durrani has for decades documented this struggle. He is a brave man standing up to imperialism and its lackeys in Kenya.

Jul 22, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Nilofar Suhrawardy |Bharat Dogra |Chaman Lal |Marwan Asmar

Politically, socially and also economically there seems to be no logic behind the order given in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh as per which shop owners were to reveal their names and details in front of their shops along the Kanwar Yatra route. What did this really imply? Normally camps are set up along the route by voluntary organizations to provide food, water, shelter and medical aid to pilgrims.