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4 weeks ago | 
countercurrents.org | Soumyanetra Munshi |Binoy Kampmark |Robert Jensen |Phil Pasquini
Ganatantrik Adhikar Surakha Sangathan (GASS), Odisha, strongly condemns the delay in opening the government-run Super Specialty hospital at Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Medical Science and Research (VIMSAR) in Burla, Sambalpur district. Despite being completed six months ago, the hospital remains closed, depriving people of quality healthcare. The delay is attributed to the wait for the Union Home Minister’s inauguration, scheduled for November last year.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Akshat Mittal |Soumyanetra Munshi |Rucha Satoor |Kalyani Pawar
The literary work of Rokeya Sakhawat Begum, namely “Sultana’s Dream[1],” can be interpreted as a utopian endeavour aimed at conceptualizing a feminist society referred to as “Ladyland.” This envisioned civilization strives to eliminate patriarchal oppression and dismantle gender binaries, thereby transcending the detrimental effects that gender imposes on individuals’ lives.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Samina Salim |Moumita Alam |Sophie Michel |Soumyanetra Munshi
[In memory of my mother Atia Salim Kidwai*} The sun is down, the birds returned home; The trees stand cold as the leaves hold in embrace The moon is out, the stars dazzle a romance; The night is dark, the fireflies clash in a dance Shadows stretch, as twilight’s veil descends; A brush of dreams touch the corner of my eyes Soft night breeze murmurs through the oaks; As constellations weave their ancient design The hush of the world, a serene hymn or a soft lullaby; Stars peep through the...
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Sophie Michel |Soumyanetra Munshi |Moumita Alam |Mazin Qumsiyeh
I realized recentlyThatIf you look up at a pine treeFrom a certain angleWith both of your feetPlanted deep in its shadowIts branches become never-ending. Standing there like that, you can seeHow they reach out like wingsOf a pinwheelOr the arms of a person receiving a hug. These arms areForever pushingLayering one on top of the otherUpwards toward a multitude of realitiesUpward toward eternityUpward bravely intoThe unknown.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bill Henderson |Laurence Tubiana |Bharat Dogra |Soumyanetra Munshi
There is a very important new climate science paper which promises to dramatically increase concern about potential impacts and needed mitigation. Bill McKibben titles his review of the paper ‘The big, big, big, big, big picture’ because it is a new way of assessing the global mean surface temperature (GMST) of the last 485 million years of the vast expanse of the 539 million year Phanerozoic eon.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Laurence Tubiana |Ana Toni |Bharat Dogra |Soumyanetra Munshi
by Laurence Tubiana and Ana ToniNEW YORK – It has been nearly ten years since countries came together in Paris and agreed finally to get serious about averting a climate disaster. But while there is an emerging consensus on the structural economic reforms needed to transform sectors such as energy, transportation, and agriculture, the necessary investments are not being made fast enough.
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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.
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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.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Yanis Iqbal |Nilofar Suhrawardy |Ugen Bhutia |Soumyanetra Munshi
ToThe Chief Justice of IndiaJustice DY ChandrachudSupreme Court, IndiaSubject: Citizen Petition in the RG Kar Rape and Murder Case Asking for Effective Legal Directives Addressing Sexual Violence and Police RepressionThis letter has been signed by over 1000 individuals from different walks of life and over 55 organisations.
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | zeenat khan |Hiren Gohain |Aijaz Ahmed |Soumyanetra Munshi
“Fear not, comes the message fromthe direction of the rising sun,Those that will givelife to the last throbwill diminish not, never.”-Rabindranath TagoreOn May 8th in 2011, on the occasion of Biswa Kabi Rabindranath Tagore’s 150th Birth Anniversary, a prominent Tagore singer Rezwana Choudhury Bannya was invited to join the celebration in New Delhi. The program was inaugurated by H.E. Dr Manmohan Singh, Honorable Prime Minister of India.
