Nilofar Suhrawardy

1 week ago | countercurrents.org | Nancy Qian |Nilofar Suhrawardy |Kumar Singh |Marietje Schaake

ROME – With little economic or political rationale, US President Donald Trump has introduced some of the highest tariffs in more than a century, and imposed them on nearly every economy in the world. Then, suddenly, despite his insistence that the tariffs were here to stay, he paused the new “reciprocal” tariffs for all countries except one, keeping in place an across-the-board 10% levy for the rest.

1 week ago | countercurrents.org | Nilofar Suhrawardy

During his first term in office, President Donald Trump’s anti-China policies seemed as aggressive and assertive as they are now. Paradoxically, though those centred around a totally different issue, they certainly had a negative impact on US, Trump himself and of course greater part of the world. Yes, this was Trump’s claim that the disease Covid-19 was a “Chinese virus.” It was alleged that the pandemic leaked from a Chinese laboratory and Trump promoted the same.

2 weeks ago | countercurrents.org | Nilofar Suhrawardy

So should certain leaders’ claim about amended Waqf Bill being directed to help “poor” Muslims be accepted? If the leaders were really so concerned about helping “poor” Muslims, it is surprising that they haven’t taken needed action on so many fronts where “poor” Muslims are being and have been targeted. These include bulldozing of their properties- houses as well as work-places, spread of negative messages against them through social media, provoking communal behavior against them and so forth.

1 month ago | countercurrents.org | Shreya Singh |Vikas Meshram |Yanis Iqbal |Nilofar Suhrawardy

The National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) expresses its deep shock and strongly condemns the recent judgment of the Allahabad High Court, dated March 19, delivered by Justice Ram Manohar Narayan Mishra, which stated that “grabbing the breast of a girl and breaking her pant string is not an attempt to rape, but an attempt to sexually molest.”The judgment came in the context of an incident in 2021 when an 11-year-old girl was attacked by two men in Kasganj area of Uttar Pradesh.

1 month ago | countercurrents.org | Nilofar Suhrawardy |Dinkar Kapoor |Suresh Khairnar |Justice Markandey Katju

How much have women around the world really gained by March 8 being marked as International Women’s Day in most parts? Or it would be perhaps be better to say that this is in essence a way of honoring them? Is it really? It should be, but for several decades the day appears to have become a manner of acknowledging the importance of women, expressing the need of their being accorded greater respect, more powers and so forth?