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Nov 13, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |John Feffer |Tom Murphy |T Vijayendra
The environmental crisis is a many-sided crisis which has many important and inter-related aspects including air pollution, space pollution, freshwater shortages and pollution, climate change and increasing disasters, pollution and disruptions in oceans, biodiversity erosion and disruption, soil erosion and loss of natural fertility of land, desertification and deforestation, proliferation of many kinds of harmful chemicals/materials/products, excessive generation and accumulation of waste...
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Kanwal Bharti |J John |T Vijayendra |zeenat khan
The Hindi critics of Bhakti literature have done more to eliminate the Bhakti-era poets, especially the women and Shudra poets, than to understand them. I will not name any one critic. In my opinion, the mainstream critics are completely messed up. I think that the main concern of these critics was not to understand the facts of history, but to save religion. These critics have the same enmity with history as religion has with science.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | J John |T Vijayendra |zeenat khan |VladislavB Sotirovic
During my recent visit to the UK in August 2024, I was intrigued by the presence of imposing Church (Kirk) buildings in deteriorating conditions. In all cities and all along the way from London to Edinburgh by road or by train, church buildings are formidable and attractive. However, the buildings give the impression that those are not being used for congregational purposes. It was also obvious that no efforts are being made for their upkeep. What do dilapidated church buildings in the UK indicate?
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | zeenat khan |Bharat Dogra |T Vijayendra |Edward Curtin
Autumn (fall season, from September 22 to early November) can be a metaphor for transformation that takes place in nature as well as in our personal lives. Autumn is a transition from the energetic summer to the upcoming lethargic and dormant winter. Witnessing from late September through November, the unobtrusive views of big, mature Magnolia, Dogwood, the Red Mulberry, and the Japanese maple trees surrounding our house are bursting in every autumnal shade imaginable.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | T Vijayendra |zeenat khan |VladislavB Sotirovic |Santosh Kumar Mamgain
It was the early nineties. Things were normal. kids played in the backyards. Butterflies would be spotted and named. Kites would be flown in the spring. Children knew the flowers and plants by their common names. Plastic animals were gazed upon for hours as Discovery had not been yet discovered. Huge fascination for the concept of the Jungle was found among kids. How do lions spend their days in the jungle? We would day dream of the castles far away where everything was beautiful. Friends met each other.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Arun Narayan Toke |T Vijayendra |Nnimmo Bassey |Sanjay N. Parate
Last month, I bicycled along the east rim of Crater Lake with two good friends of mine. You might ask what’s so special about this bicycle ride? On two Saturdays in early September, the Crater Lake National Park in Oregon (USA) closes down the East Rim Drive for automobile traffic. Only bicycles and walkers are allowed to enjoy this beautiful mountainous landscape overlooking the incredibly beautiful natural, 2,000 ft.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |John Feffer |Tom Murphy |T Vijayendra
Mangal Turbine is a highly praised innovation by a farmer scientist of India which makes it possible to lift water without diesel and electricity from small rivers, streams and canals. During the last four decades this has been repeatedly praised by the most senior development officials and development activists and in fact even by a committee appointed by the rural development ministry of the Government of India which recommended its rapid spread in the country under various development schemes.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | VladislavB Sotirovic |zeenat khan |T Vijayendra |Vikas Meshram
PrefaceA geopolitical issue of South-East Europe became of very importance for scholars, policymakers, and researchers with the question of the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire as one of the most crucial features of the beginning of the 20th century in European history. A graduate collapse of the one-time great empire was accelerated and followed by competition and struggle by both, the European Great Powers and the Balkan national states, upon the territorial inheritance of it.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | zeenat khan |Syed Ali |Yanis Iqbal |T Vijayendra
All kinds of things keep me up at night like a nocturnal owl. It has been happening more and more in the last couple of years. Last night was one such night. Earlier in the evening, I saw a set of photos of Afghan women in mandatory burqas and niqab as they were waiting for food ration that a humanitarian aid group was going to distribute.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | T Vijayendra |Vikas Meshram |Bill McKibben |Abdulrahim P Vijapur
Mulk Raj Anand (1905 – 2004) is considered to be a father figure in the history of Indian English writings. A lifelong socialist, he is known for depicting life of the poor in India in his novels. He became known for his protest novel Untouchable (1935), which was followed by other works on the Indian poor such as Coolie (1936) and Two Leaves and a Bud (1937). He is also noted for being among the first writers to incorporate Punjabi and Hindustani idioms into English.
