Simi Garewal

Sep 24, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Soumyanetra Munshi |Simi Garewal |Tarique Niazi

Recently on September 20 the Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee wrote a letter to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in which she stated that at least seven districts in Bengal are facing floods because of the “unprecedented, unplanned and unilateral” release of around 500,000 cusecs of water from the DVC’s Maithon and Panchet dams. This letter stated that such a huge quantum of discharge from the DVC system had never happened in the past.

Sep 24, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Soumyanetra Munshi |Simi Garewal |Tarique Niazi |Robert Campion

In an idyllic three-storey house, nestled amongst a rich garden of all kinds of flowers and fruit trees, playing host to most of the birds, insects and even monkeys, Samarpita, staying alone in her ancestral house, was going about her usual morning chores on Wednesday morning when water began to flow in and flood her garden, and the ground floor.

Sep 23, 2024 | eurasiareview.com | Simi Garewal

Last month, South Korea’s Constitutional Court delivered a landmark ruling that has reverberated across the region and beyond. In a decision unprecedented in Asia, the court determined that the country’s current climate measures are inadequate for protecting citizens’ rights, particularly those of younger generations who will suffer the most from the consequences of climate change.

Sep 23, 2024 | countercurrents.org | G Naveen |Countercurrents Collective |Gideon Polya |Simi Garewal

In the run-up to Jammu & Kashmir assembly elections, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge lamented that a 20-seat deficit in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections stopped them in their heels and that they would have put BJP leaders in jail if they gained those and formed the government at the center. It is precisely those 20 seats (and 1 more) that the southern state of Andhra Pradesh handed over to the NDA making Modi’s third term a reality.

Sep 23, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Simi Garewal |Tarique Niazi |Robert Campion |Shania Scotland

Last month, South Korea’s Constitutional Court delivered a landmark ruling that has reverberated across the region and beyond. In a decision unprecedented in Asia, the court determined that the country’s current climate measures are inadequate for protecting citizens’ rights, particularly those of younger generations who will suffer the most from the consequences of climate change.