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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Ram Puniyani |Subhash Gatade |Suresh Khairnar |Tushar Gandhi
Prominent Citizens & Civil Society Organizations condemn the targeting of Tushar Gandhi by a mob of the RSS & BJP, who further threaten that he be arrested. The entire nation is shocked and appalled at the fact that Tushar Gandhi has been heckled by an RSS/BJP mob at a meeting in Kerala, where they demanded that he apologise & retract his statement. Tushar Gandhi did neither.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Yanis Iqbal |Kim Petersen |Subhash Gatade |Vikas Meshram
The Companion, the national magazine of the Students Islamic Organization of India (SIO) [students’ wing of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind] has released a list of 10 books to read this Ramadan. The first among them is Abul A’la al-Maududi’s Towards Understanding Islam. This choice is curious, because SIO’s constitution lists the promotion of “moral values in the educational system” as one of its goals. However, Maududi presents the most immoral system imaginable – immoral in its radical denial of equality.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Subhash Gatade |Yanis Iqbal |Vikas Meshram |Haider Abbas
‘There are times when madness reignsAnd then it is the best who hang’– Albrecht Haushoffer – [7 January 1903 – 23 April 1945, German geographer, diplomat, author and faced martyrdom for his resistance to Nazism]Uday Bhembre, the 87 year old widely respected Konkani writer – son of a legendary freedom fighter Laxmikant Bhembre- who has been a Sahitya Akademi Awardee- is a worried man these days.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Ram Puniyani |Subhash Gatade |Suresh Khairnar |Bhabani Nayak
“Hindu Society Nation’s Responsible Core- Sangh seeks to unite Hindu Society, as it is the Hindu Society…that carries the responsibility of Nation” (Mohan Bhagwat, Indian Express, Mumbai Edition, Feb 17, 2025) These are the words of Mr. Mohan Bhagwat, the chief of RSS. He was addressing the RSS Workers in Bardhaman, West Bengal. Further he states that “Hindus are those who embody India’s characteristics and keep its diverse population united.”Mr. Bhagwat is on a ten day tour in West Bengal.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | David Cromwell |Tamara Nassar |Ramzy Baroud |Subhash Gatade
Gaza (Quds News Network)- The death toll from Israel’s genocide in Gaza has reached 48,239, with 111,676 others injured, according to the Health Ministry on Thursday. Many bodies remain trapped under rubble and in the streets, with rescue teams unable to reach them due to ongoing Israeli restrictions. In the last 24 hours, 17 more bodies arrived at hospitals, including 14 recovered from the rubble and 3 killed or succumbed to injuries.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Subhash Gatade |Prem Singh |Mubashir Vp |Nilofar Suhrawardy
“ Do Not Put Each Foot in a Different Boat.”– Chinese ProverbA defeat in elections should not be The End of politics for a political party. There are examples how parties who were humbled in one election could bounce back with huge majority in next elections.
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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 | Subhash Gatade |Prem Singh |Nilofar Suhrawardy |G Naveen
Aisha, a 7 year old girl living in Khajuri Khas Colony of Delhi, is yearning for a day when like her elder sister Asma, she would also be admitted to a nearby government school.(1)This possibility is growing dimmer by the day, as the school has refused her admission and asked for Indian documents like Aadhar – which refugees do not possess.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Ram Puniyani |Subhash Gatade |Suresh Khairnar |Bhabani Nayak
Kangana Ranaut, the actor and MP was the first who spelt her understanding about India’s Independence when she stated that India became Independent in 2014; when Modi came to power. It was the first time that BJP got majority on its own strength. The hint was India was a slave country earlier; slave of ‘foreign rulers’ or was ruled by Governments which wanted to pursue the path of secular, democratic values. She meant that with Modi in power; full Hindu Nationalism will be unleashed.
