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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Harsh Thakor |Himanshu Kumar |Andre Damon |Keith Jones
On February 1, 2025, the Brahmanical Hindutva Fascist BJP-RSS led Chhattisgarh Government claimed the killing of eight Maoists in the Tolimeta (Toli Hills) area between the villages of Korcholi and Todka in Bijapur district. However, villagers from the area have vehemently denied these claims, asserting that the victims were all innocent villagers. According to the police’s account, the encounter began at 8:30 am, with sporadic firing continuing throughout the day.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Harsh Thakor |Ramzy Baroud |Kim Petersen |Tom Engelhardt
Queeni Victoria Gandam makes landmark splashes in Open Water Swimming becoming first woman swimmer from Andhra Pradesh to cross English Channel and with her son the first-ever mother-son duo to swim from Mandwa to Gateway of India Queeni Victoria Gandam made two sensational splashes in the Open Waters., in recent times.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd |Waseem Ahmad Bhat |Gurpreet Singh |Harsh Thakor
Dr. Manmohan Singh passed away on 26 December, 2024, at a time when Narendra Modi, an aggressive political leader, in the sense of Aristotle’s phrase ‘man is a political animal’ is ruling. Before his ten years rule was Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the first Hindutva ruler, who ruled India for the first time for more than five years by putting a stamp of RSS ideology in the administration. He was a Kautilyan in the BJP cultural nationalist growth.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Harsh Thakor |Bharat Dogra |Suresh Khairnar |Pieter Friedrich
On January 29th at around 11 am Manesar police mercilessly picked up around 100 Maruti workers from their dharna site which began since 18 September 2024. The tents, placards and other stuffs were uprooted. Later, the workers were taken far from Manesar to Pataudi by bus and released, but were directed not to go back to Manesar. The police told them that section 144 has been imposed in Manesar via the order of Gurgaon DC. Though the workers did not get any copy of the order.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Anil Gokhale |Shahruk Ahmed Mazumdar |Harsh Thakor
Sunderlal Bahuguna, the person most closely associated with the movements and campaigns to protect Himalayan forests, had travelled to more Himalayan villages than perhaps anyone else and was involved in many grassroots struggles here. He applied Gandhian precepts, to which he was devoted all his life, to understanding and resolving problems of Himalayan villages and region.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Anil Gokhale |Shahruk Ahmed Mazumdar |Harsh Thakor |John Graversgaard
The story of Rise and Fall of Labour Movement of Mumbai from 1853 to 2017. It’s a historical portrayal of Movement, it’s Birth, Growth, its achievements, the significant Milestones it crossed, the unsurmountable hurdells it encountered and its conquests and retardations it faced since 1990’s till 2017 when fire, heat and warmth of the movement reached its sad and heartbreaking end when the it found itself helpless.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Tom Murphy |Suresh Khairnar |Bruce Lerro |Harsh Thakor
In my continuing pursuit of humility as an antidote to modernity’s human supremacy illness, the atoms that constitute who I am take issue with lofty and self-aggrandizing concepts of idealism, dualism, and free will—replaced by the unflattering material world and its staggering wealth of emergent complexity.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Mohd Khan |Nilofar Suhrawardy |Harsh Thakor
The USA really needs a political party which is completely dedicated to evolving and promoting an agenda based on peace, justice and environment protection, internally as well as at world level.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Suresh Khairnar |Bruce Lerro |Harsh Thakor |zeenat khan
Humble greetings on the occasion of 128th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose on 23rd January. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is going to be 100 years old on the coming Dussehra, but in these 100 years it could not produce even a single national level leader and the biggest opportunity to become a national level leader was the freedom struggle of India, from which Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh kept itself away so that the British rulers would not get angry.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Harsh Thakor |Himanshu Kumar |Rejaz M Sydeek |Abdel Bari Atwan
The Democratic Front against Operation Green Hunt, Punjab, organised a ‘Provincial Convention against Repression’ at Tarksheel Bhawan in Barnala on January 19th. The convention, convened by Buta Sing,Parminder Singh and AK Maleri and by prominent tribal rights activist and researcher Bela Bhattia, as well as Narvsharan Kaur; garnered leaders, intellectuals, and activists of diverse spheres discuss issues concerning tribal rights and state repression and unite at a common platform.
