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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Maya John |Satvinderpal Kaur |Arun Mitra
Recently when ‘10 startup founders to follow in 2025’ were selected in Nigeria, a special place of honor went to Manish Sardana, co-founder of Craydel, a startup which has won a reputation for helping and guiding higher education students in Nigeria and Kenya and is now planning to widen its work to Ghana, Uganda and South Africa, apart from increasing its reach-out in other ways.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Maya John |Satvinderpal Kaur |Arun Mitra |Masood Ali Mir
Recently, the Union Minister of Education released the Draft UGC (Minimum Qualifications for Appointment and Promotion of Teachers and Academic Staff in Universities and Colleges and Measures for the Maintenance of Standards in Higher Education) Regulations, 2025.
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Jul 27, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | G Naveen |Maya John |Manas Jena |Vivek Sakpal
In spite of a valiant fight put up by the INDIA coalition in the 2024 general elections, Prime Minister Modi ascended the throne for a historic third consecutive term. Notwithstanding the 63-seat loss, Modi’s BJP was able to cobble up the support it needed from NDA allies to get past the 272 mark.
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May 11, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Maya John
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which currently heads the ruling coalition government in India, has long had a reputation as a male-dominated, Hindu supremacist organization with an upper caste and patriarchal image. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promoted a makeover of the party’s image on several fronts. He is now seeking a third term in office and campaigning aggressively on the government’s numerous initiatives related to women.
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May 10, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Maya John
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which currently heads the ruling coalition government in India, has long had a reputation as a male-dominated, Hindu supremacist organization with an upper caste and patriarchal image. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promoted a makeover of the party’s image on several fronts. He is now seeking a third term in office and campaigning aggressively on the government’s numerous initiatives related to women.
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May 6, 2024 | 
ipanewspack.com | Maya John
By Maya JohnMay Day began to be commemorated in India 101 years ago. The first programme, organised in the city of Madras on May 1, 1923 is credited to M. Singaravelu Chettiar, who was a towering nationalist figure, and an early communist associated with the anti-caste movement.
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May 1, 2024 | 
theleaflet.in | Maya John
Hard-won labour rights have receded in the face of new labour laws to promote ‘ease of doing business’, informalisation of work, and the trappings of the start-up culture in India, writes Maya John. —May Day began to be commemorated in India 101 years ago. The first programme, organised in the city of Madras on May 1, 1923 is credited to M. Singaravelu Chettiar, who was a towering nationalist figure, and an early communist associated with the anti-caste movement.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Pm Modi |Bhabani Nayak |Maya John |Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
Mr. Narendra Damodardas Modi, serving as the 14th Prime Minister of India, has successfully completed two terms in office and is now seeking re-election for a third term in the forthcoming 18th Lok Sabha elections. Widely recognised as a prominent figure in Hindutva politics, Modi is often viewed as the face of a political ideology marked by division and animosity. Throughout his tenure, Modi has been disseminating misleading information to sway public opinion in his favour.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Pm Modi |Maya John |Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd |Andre Damon
by Maya John and Mudita Singh Kushwaha[This is the first part of a two-part series on the critical engagement with the 2024 general elections in India]India is in the midst of her eighteenth general election; a mammoth exercise spanning over 543 parliamentary constituencies that are distributed across nearly 97 crore voters.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Moumita Alam |Bharat Dogra |Maya John |Vidya Bhushan Rawat
ToShri Rajiv GaubaCabinet SecretaryDear Shri Gauba,I refer to the accident involving the collapse of the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand in November, 2023, in which 41 unwary workers got trapped and had to face a serious risk to their lives for more than a fortnight, till rathole miners saved their lives. I wonder whether the government has instituted an independent investigation into the reasons for the accident and individuals/ contractors responsible for it.
