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1 week ago | 
countercurrents.org | Alfred McCoy |Marwan Asmar |Sanjay N. Parate |Tom Engelhardt
Most of us can remember at least a few troubling scenes from George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984: the mandatory love demanded for the spectral dictator Big Brother; the malleability of facts at the Ministry of Truth; or the ruling party’s memorably grim slogans, “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery.” But for me, the most disturbing image of all — and I first read the book in high school — was the “Two Minutes Hate,” aroused among the public by threatening images on giant video screens.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Mazin Qumsiyeh |Ram Puniyani |Sanjay N. Parate
Goats are generally at the margin of rural development efforts, but thanks to a well-planned initiative in Shivpuri district of Madhya Pradesh, efforts related to better care of goats and improved livelihoods based on these have progressed in very creative and useful ways, including progress of an endearing concept of giving goat kids (babies) a more protective childhood in the form of memna nursery (memna is the local word for goat babies or kids).
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Sanjay N. Parate |Kanwal Bharti |Christopher Martin |Binoy Kampmark
Bhagat Singh was sentenced to death on 23 March 1931 and after his martyrdom he joined the list of the best freedom fighters of our country, who selflessly served the country and the people. He challenged the British imperialism.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Shiraz Durrani |Yanis Iqbal |Sanjay N. Parate
By pooling their savings on a regular basis every month self-help groups (SHGs) in many parts of India have improved their economic and social security. However such efforts, particularly of rural women, have been able to achieve more when they have combined this with wider initiatives for social reform.
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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.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Nilofar Suhrawardy |Sanjay N. Parate |Subhash Gatade |Prem Singh
There is nothing surprising about Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) about having been defeated in Delhi Assembly elections. Neither is their anything astonishing about its key leaders, including Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia having failed to win. Their defeat does not rest exclusively on voters being convinced by extensive nature of campaign indulged in by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), particularly Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Sanjay N. Parate |Subhash Gatade |Prem Singh |Nilofar Suhrawardy
The defeat of the AAP in Delhi has ended the myth of it being an alternative on a national scale, but it has trapped the country in a major tragedy. The victory of the BJP has disappointed all those who understand the real danger of the BJP-RSS-Corporate alliance that instead of watering the roots of democracy in our country, it is pouring curd in it. Let us begin with the emergence of the India Block before the Lok Sabha elections.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Darini Rajaisngham-Senanayake |Cedric Prakash |Sanjay N. Parate
Moving away from the controversies and contradictions of daily discourse, can we consider what the most sincere and genuine reform in USA, capable of giving real relief to the people of the USA as well as to the rest of the world, will involve?
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Hiren Gohain |Sanjay N. Parate |Andre Damon |Ashish Reddy
Since 2019, according to wildlife experts 200 elephants have been put in trucks with feet shackled by heavy chains and transported to Ambani’s new wildlife resort.It appears to be quite a wild venture as these poor beasts are kept confined to an enclosure and maintained under a strict routine.Some of them must be newly captured and given a short training in domesticated life.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Sanjay N. Parate |P S Sahni |Sumanta Banerjee |Vidya Bhushan Rawat
The statement given by the President in the Parliament, which is called the President’s address, is not written by her. This statement is written by the ruling party which she represents. Therefore, when she addresses the Parliament by saying “my government” in her speech and praises the government, then she herself becomes responsible for the pronunciation of every word written in that speech and its wrong facts.
