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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Haider Abbas |Ram Puniyani |Cedric Prakash |Vidyadhar Date
While watching Adolescence, a four-part OTT series at Netflix, it could easily be related what nearly everyone in this world has gone through. Adolescence the pre-young age, which every man or woman, had passed through or has to go through. The series is a must watch, for every student, boy or girl, parents and teachers alike.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Ram Puniyani |Haider Abbas |Cedric Prakash |Vidyadhar Date
As Communal hate is on the rise through the use of History on political battle grounds, new dimensions are being added up to this during the last few years. Apart from the propaganda and indoctrination through RSS Shakha, social media, IT cell of BJP, the mainstream media, particularly many TV channels and now many films have been added up to the prevailing misconceptions among the society. In the recent past Kerala Story, Kashmir files have gripped the society in the mania of hate.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Haider Abbas |Cedric Prakash |Vidyadhar Date |Shiraz Durrani
The film Anora, as it opens, takes viewers for an unbridled voyeurism as a striptease bar is open where topless girls split their legs on silhouettes. Topless girls now are the new norm. Frontal nudity is the new discourse. Anora is recipient of five Oscar Awards 2025, which includes Best Picture. Sean Baker, its Director, won four Oscars for a single film, which is an Academy record.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Phil Pasquini |Vidyadhar Date |Justice Markandey Katju
Maali Ram’s small home and farm may appear to be very ordinary to outsiders, but local people who know better are increasingly attracted by what this bheel (tribal community) farmer has achieved with the help of his wife Dulkibai and other family members. This is why they have been visiting this farm in growing numbers and in addition also inviting Maali Ram for training others in natural farming.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Prakash Sharma |Ana Pararajasingham |Vidyadhar Date |Ralph Nader
Artists at National School of Drama performed Hillol Kumar Pathak’s Madhumokhika at the theatre festival Bharat Rang Mahotsav. Madhumokhika, the play, isn’t just about surrealism intrigued smoothly into the mundane everydayness of a housewife but also about the revelation of what is in between, horror of aspiration, conflict of modernities, and everything operating within the vicious apparatus of patriarchy.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Michael Albert |Charles Andrews |zeenat khan |Vidyadhar Date
[The following is a close transcript of the 319th episode of the podcast titled RevolutionZ.]Perhaps you are aware there is a new movie out titled A Complete Unknown. It addresses the first five years, or thereabouts, in Bob Dylan’s public musical life. I have not yet seen it. I have read some interviews with cast, director, etc., and have seen some excerpts, as well as heard from some friends who have seen it.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bhabani Nayak |Peoples’ Commission |Vidyadhar Date |Bharat Dogra
To Shri T V Somanathan Cabinet Secretary Government of India Dear Shri Somanathan, I refer to my letter of 23rd November 2024 addressed to the Finance Minister , calling for setting up an independent judicial commission to enquire into the respective roles of the Central agencies, especially the Ministry of Power (MOP), SECI, CERC, State Regulatory Commissions, SEBI and CBI, for their deliberate acts of omission/ commission, causing a huge loss to millions of electricity consumers across the...
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Vikas Meshram |Vidyadhar Date |Dinkar Kapoor |Naveen Prasad Alex
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar was a unique personality in Indian history who dedicated his entire life to social, economic, and political equality. Although he passed away on December 6, 1956, his ideas continue to guide Indian society to this day. Babasaheb was not just a leader for Dalits but a global icon in the struggle for equality. Throughout his lifetime, there were efforts to confine his legacy within specific boundaries, and such attempts persist even today.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Vidyadhar Date |J Hester |Rebecca Gordon |Manas Jena
The BJP has scored a big if questionable win in the just held legislative assembly elections in Maharahtra. But the state administration has scored a self goal or shot itself in the foot when it comes to it boasts about so called modern, high technology and urban transport with the miserable failure of its hobby horse the Metro rail network in Mumbai. The Metro was touted as a technology marvel and the actual result has blown into the authorities’ face.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Subzar Ahmad |Vidyadhar Date |zeenat khan |Anil Gokhale
In a world enamored with the relentless pace of technological advancement, a pervasive belief has taken root: that the natural sciences, with their capacity to harness and transform the physical world, are the sole arbiters of progress. This creed, driven by instrumentalism, celebrates efficiency, utility, and measurable outcomes while relegating disciplines like literature and the human sciences to the margins.
