Niranjan K S

1 month ago | countercurrents.org | Danaka Katovich |Niranjan K S |Yanis Iqbal |Sanjay N. Parate

With a lot of excitement, my daughter approached me to inform me that some of the apps on her phone were offering fantastic deals on various items in observance of Women’s Day. Even though those things weren’t really helpful to me, she persisted in pushing to induce me to buy them merely because they were currently on sale. Celebrated annually on March 8th since 1911, International Women’s Day (IWD) honors the social, cultural, political, and economic accomplishments of women worldwide.

2 months ago | countercurrents.org | Amit Sengupta |Hiren Gohain |Niranjan K S |Vidya Bhushan Rawat

Today, 30th of January, 2025, is the 1600th day that the historian and activist Umar Khalid has spent in Delhi’s Tihar prison. It also happens to be the 77th anniversary of the assassination of Mohandas Karmachand Gandhi at the hands of a Hindutva fanatic. We, the undersigned, are not unaware of this synchronicity. Nor do we wish to see it pass un-noticed.

Mar 12, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Danaka Katovich |Niranjan K S |Sumanta Banerjee

The following is from a speech given by CODEPINK co-director, Danaka Katovich, gave at Palestinian Feminist Collective’s International Working Women’s Day Vigil for Palestine on Friday March 8thI was three years old when CODEPINK was founded, by women I still interact with on a daily basis. So I’ve been able to hear what sort of discursive battles they had to face in the United States with other “feminist” groups in the lead up to the US invasions and occupations of the early 2000’s.

Mar 10, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Liz Theoharis |Farooque Chowdhury |Niranjan K S

The slang definition of “unwinding” means “to chill.” Other definitions include: to relax, disentangle, undo — all words that, on the surface, appear both passive and peaceful. And yet in Google searches involving such seemingly harmless definitions of decompressing and resting, news articles abound about the end of pandemic-era Medicaid expansion programs — a topic that, for the millions of people now without healthcare insurance, is anything but relaxing.

Mar 10, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Niranjan K S |Sumanta Banerjee |Orusa Karim |T Vijayendra

We all know that 8th March is observed as International Women’s Day. The UN also accepted this day in 1975 but they will never reveal the reason and the struggles behind the celebration of 8th March as International Women’s Day. They have even erased the word, “Working”, in order to forget the history of the 8th March. From the beginning of the women’s movement, there were basically two trends in the women’s movement.