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1 week ago | 
countercurrents.org | Hiren Gohain |Suresh Khairnar |Bharat Dogra |Ram Puniyani
Many in this country are likely to shake their heads at the SC’s judgment on Tushar Gandhi’s petition against the Government of India’s decision to spruce up the Sabarmati Ashram.The site is intimately associated not only with Gandhijee’s life work,but also with his vision and philosophy.Austerity and simplicity,his concept of ‘bread labour’,the obligation of everyone to discharge his share of manual labour to the national labour in order to deserve the services and goods produced by his...
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Ram Puniyani |Biju Negi |Suresh Khairnar |Hiren Gohain
IntroductionChaudhary Khaliquzzaman in his Pathway To Pakistan (1961) has quoted Maulana Azad to assert the role of Muslim elites of UP. He quotes Azad who says- “students of Indian politics know that it was from the U.P. that the League was re-organized.
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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 | Sandeep Pandey |Justice Markandey Katju |Suresh Khairnar |Ram Puniyani
The Quran contains approximately fifty references to the Children of Israel, along with 137 references to Moses and 18 references to the Torah. Most of these references are positive, acknowledging the special status and divine favour bestowed upon the Israelites.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Ram Puniyani |Suresh Khairnar |Tushar Gandhi
Beneath all the glitter of big cities and luxury goods, our world today is deeply troubled by a wide range of serious problems, culminating in the existential crisis posed by some of the most serious environmental problems and by weapons of mass destruction.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Nilofar Suhrawardy |Dinkar Kapoor |Suresh Khairnar |Justice Markandey Katju
How much have women around the world really gained by March 8 being marked as International Women’s Day in most parts? Or it would be perhaps be better to say that this is in essence a way of honoring them? Is it really? It should be, but for several decades the day appears to have become a manner of acknowledging the importance of women, expressing the need of their being accorded greater respect, more powers and so forth?
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Kanwal Bharti |Suresh Khairnar |Vijay Prashad
The book under review here, very simply titled ‘Mingas+Solidarity’ is a rare and invaluable book. It is rare because such books are seldom seen in print. It is invaluable because it provides an inspiring testimony of the spirit and action of voluntary community work—something that has been precious for the progress of humanity and yet has been getting eroded in most places.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Kanwal Bharti |Suresh Khairnar |Vijay Prashad |Ram Puniyani
According to Bhagat Singh’s documents, a very thought-provoking article titled ‘Ek Nirvaas’ M.A. was published in ‘Kirti’ of September, 1928. Bhagat Singh and his comrades thought deeply about this article, and found it to be in line with their thoughts. Perhaps that is why this article was included in the documents of Bhagat Singh and his comrades. The editors of the document have described this article as the creation of Lala Hardayal.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Suresh Khairnar |Subhashini Ali |Vijay Prashad |Ram Puniyani
Overall, she got 67 years of life to live. She died of plague on 10 March 1897. And Jyotiba Phule had died seven years before her, at the age of 62. (28 November 1890) But Savitribai, who was 60 years old at that time, performed the cremation of Jyotiba after his death with great courage. Because due to the greed for property, her relatives had forbidden her adopted son Dr. Yashwant from cremating Jyotiba’s body, Savitribai herself performed this ritual.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Richard Falk |VladislavB Sotirovic |Ramzy Baroud |Suresh Khairnar
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Leading European nations have said they support the Arab-backed plan for the reconstruction of Gaza which opposes any forced displacement of Palestinians, a proposal put forward by US President Donald Trump. Arab leaders met on Tuesday in Cairo for an emergency summit to discuss an Egyptian plan for Gaza’s reconstruction and governance following Israel’s genocide. The summit reaffirmed rejection of any forced displacement of Palestinians.
