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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 20, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Shahruk Ahmed Mazumdar |Harsh Thakor |John Graversgaard |George Mathew
‘The Gujaratis—A Portrait of a Community’, Salil Tripathi’s most recent book, aims to draw attention to the uncommon traits of Gujaratis that the outside world is ignorant of. Gujaratis are renowned for their abilities to organise, manage, and oversee intricate projects. He creates a captivating portrayal of the community he was born into and is glad to be a part of through extensive research, distinctive knowledge, and a lifetime of observation.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Shahruk Ahmed Mazumdar |John Graversgaard |George Mathew |Harsh Thakor
“Vajpayee: The Ascent of the Hindu Right 1924-77”, Abhishek Choudhary’s biography of the late Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, captures his early years and reveals how Vajpayee handled political and ideological issues as well as the blurred boundaries between conservative and liberal politics in the years leading up to and following independence.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Nilofar Suhrawardy |Shahruk Ahmed Mazumdar |John Graversgaard |Joycia Thorat
It is great listening to politicians’ “commitment” to ensure, usually money loaded schemes, for the welfare of electorate, if they succeed in forming the government. This trend is always most visible, naturally when elections are around the corner. With Delhi Assembly polls scheduled for February 5, politicians in the fray have begun displaying this trend. Of course, there is nothing surprising about this. However, this year, Delhi’s political drama appears to be accompanied by a new twist.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | John Graversgaard |George Mathew |Harsh Thakor |Romi Mahajan
Trade Union Studies in UK and Kenya, Nigel Flanagan and Shiraz Durrani. Vita Books, Nairobi 2024. History is a story of class struggles with the working classes fighting for their humanity against suppression and exploitation. The toilers of the world living a meagre existence either as landowners of small plots or as low wage workers, have always been confronted by the challenge: If we organize and stand together, we might better feed our families and build a more secure life.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | K M Seethi |John Graversgaard |Joycia Thorat |Niles Niemuth
PUCL’s detailed response to the observations made by the Special NIA Court, Lucknow; against the PUCL and other Human Rights organisations. FIR 60/2018; Case numbers 1049/2022, 1758/2022 and 2766/2022Targeting human rights activism: Shocking comments by the NIA Court, Lucknow, against PUCL for promoting the constitutional values of ‘spirit of harmony’ and ‘brotherhood’. The PUCL hope that these prejudiced and invidious observations are suo motu expunged from the reported judgment.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Adam Hanieh |Bhabani Nayak |John Graversgaard |Arun Mitra
Nearly four decades ago, a large team of scientists from around the world launched a major global research programme called the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP). Their goal was to study the connection between human activities and changes to the earth’s biological, chemical, and physical systems, and in 2004 they synthesised the results of their initial research phase in a 336-page report entitled Global Change and the Earth System.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bhabani Nayak |John Graversgaard |Arun Mitra |Jake Johnson
Political leaders, journalists, academicians, sports figures, celebrities, corporate executives, governments, and ordinary citizens alike have expressed their sorrow over the deaths of corporate heads, industrialists, and business leaders such as Mr. Ratan Tata of the Tata Group and Mr. Steven Paul Jobs of Apple Inc. The passing of Indian corporate tycoon Mr. Ratan Tata’s death has renewed several old questions as people around the world mourn and celebrate his life as a global role model.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bhabani Nayak |John Graversgaard |Arun Mitra |VladislavB Sotirovic
Lenin characterised capitalism in France and Britain as “civilised barbarism,” and referred to the so-called Western civilisation as “capitalist barbarism,” driven by the “stupid avarice of a handful of millionaires” who converted people as “slaves of wealth” during the early twentieth century. He further argued that “civilisation, freedom and wealth under capitalism call to mind the rich glutton who is rotting alive but will not let what is young live on”.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bhabani Nayak |John Graversgaard |Arun Mitra |Bruce Lerro
Capitalism as a global system continues to evolve, continuously reshaping itself, accommodating with the new environment, aligning itself with different forms of regressive, right wing, reactionary, religious and authoritarian powers to reinforce its rent-seeking nature in the form of “technofeudalism” where technology mediates the traditionally insidious structures, agencies, and processes of capitalist accumulation.
