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Dec 10, 2024 | 
timesheadline.in | Satya Sagar |Kamran Khan
I have come to believe, that the English term 'understanding' literally means to 'stand under' something - whether it is love, pain, pleasure or sorrow. You 'understand' truly only when it falls upon your head, with all its weight, as benevolence or disaster.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
thehindubusinessline.com | Satya Sagar
The era of climate platitudes is over. What was once a distant, academic discussion has morphed into a visceral, inescapable reality — a planetary crisis etched into scorched landscapes, erratic weather patterns, and the mounting economic toll of environmental breakdown. As the world scrambles for solutions, India’s agricultural waste landscape emerges not as a footnote, but as a potential economic and ecological salvation.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Satya Sagar |Musharraf Hussain |Ghulam Mohammad Khan |zeenat khan
This is a story from over two decades ago when a passionate environmentalist friend from New Zealand, who lived as I also did in the northern Thai town of Chiang Mai, told me about a project he had embarked up. He wanted to create a dictionary of ecological terms targeting neo-literate youth from ethnic groups living along the Thai-Burma border among whom he worked and whose knowledge of English was elementary.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Moin Qazi |Satya Sagar |Syed Ehtisham
KUALA LUMPUR – At the end of October, the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA) held its annual meeting in Vienna. Representatives from 81 member states assessed progress on the organization’s mission to fight corruption through education, capacity-building programs, and research. Corruption disproportionately affects the poorest and most marginalized communities, making it an economic and social tragedy as much as a political issue.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Karen Greenberg |Mohd Khan |Phil Pasquini |Satya Sagar
So much will be said about the Presidential elections of 2024. Democrats will reflect and inquire where they went wrong, and the various political pundits will claim that it was the economy, the southern border, immigration, and the economy. And credible arguments will be made to sustain their hypothesis. The Democrats will be accused of misplaced emphasis where too much was placed on a women’s right to choose, and protection from abortion bans.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Karen Greenberg |Mohd Khan |Phil Pasquini |Satya Sagar
As the dust settles over election day, it’s worth reflecting that it’s not only the election results that have been at stake, but the future of the presidency and its powers. Over the course of the first quarter of this century, the American presidency has accumulated ever more power, rendering the office increasingly less constrained by either Congress or the courts.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Mohd Khan |Phil Pasquini |Satya Sagar |HABIB SIDDIQUI
The prospect of Donald Trump’s return to the U.S. presidency has sparked global discussions, and India is no exception. When it comes to Indian’ context, our nation carries unique implications. Trump’s approach to foreign policy, trade, and defense aligns differently than his erstwhile president, and his previous tenure significantly influenced U.S.-India relations.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Phil Pasquini |George Capaccio |Kim Scipes |Satya Sagar
Nobody said democracy was an easy form of government and the quest to maintain it is quite realistically described as organized chaos. The challenge of course is that since our inception as a nation we have attempted to follow the preamble of the Constitution in order that our collective efforts through governing should be directed “in Order to form a more perfect Union.” Something that has eluded us to this day.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Phil Pasquini |George Capaccio |Kim Scipes |Satya Sagar
With a sigh of relief for many and more than an ounce of anxiety, election day has finally arrived. For many Americans the usual long dragged-out presidential campaign has evoked election fatigue in years past but this year, with all the unexpected changes, challenges and choice among the two candidates, there is more anxiety than in years past.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | George Capaccio |Phil Pasquini |Kim Scipes |Satya Sagar
On October 23, Nancy Pelosi came to Harvard Square in Cambridge, MA (my old hometown) and spoke at the First Parish Church. Her talk was organized by The Harvard Book Store and moderated by Massachusetts Governor Maura T. Healey. Pelosi made a point of defending the Biden administration’s handling of the war in Gaza. “He has been very concerned about a two-state solution for the region,” according to the former Speaker of the House.
