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5 days ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Gowhar Geelani |Vaishna Roy |Vidyarthy Chatterjee
It has been said that the best way to know a person is to go by the company they keep. The reasons for the persecution and death of the Jesuit activist-priest, Stan Swamy, can be better understood in relation to his comradeship with Sister Valsa John Malamel, a Malayali nun murdered some 14 years ago in the village of Pachhwara in Pakur district of Jharkhand, about 250 kilometres north-east of Ranchi. “They buried us.
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1 month ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Meena Kandasamy |Vaishna Roy |Vidyarthy Chatterjee
Filmmaker Anand Patwardhan turned 75 recently. He has been described as “a kind of phenomenon in that he has all along faced official apathy, disapproval and, at times, censorship and open discrimination”. Perhaps, this is how it should be for any creative artist grappling with political abuses, social injustices, and economic disparities in a determined effort “to educate, expose, inform, reform and effect change in a resistant and otherwise unenlightened world”.
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2 months ago | 
outlookindia.com | Vidyarthy Chatterjee |Jinit Parmar |Asha Kumari |Jheelum Basu
Priya Jhingan, first woman cadet to join the Indian Army Photo: X/@SSBCrack Priya Jhingan, first woman cadet to join the Indian Army Photo: X/@SSBCrack While patriarchal narratives prefer painting women as delicate creatures, back in 1992, India was fortunate to have Priya Jhingan, a girl with the grit to become the first-ever female cadet of the Indian Army.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Vikas Meshram |Vidyarthy Chatterjee |Uday Kumar Saw
Patha, the plateau area of Chitrakut district in Uttar Pradesh, is an area that has been often in news due to water scarcity. When I visited this area over four decades back at the time of a severe drought there was extreme distress in the widely scattered hamlets of weaker sections, and it was clear that an ambitious and expensive project with generous foreign aid had failed to provide much needed relief from thirst and water scarcity.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | zeenat khan |Samina Salim |Vidyarthy Chatterjee |Bharat Dogra
Translation by Zeenat Khan A portrait of an unknown woman Artist: Rabindranath Tagore Parjaay: Prem (1) Upa-parjaay: Gaan Taal: Jhaptaal Raag: Khambaj Written on: 1895 Swarabitan: 10 Notation by: Jyotirindranath Tagore চিত্ত পিপাসিত রে গীতাসুধার তরে ॥ তাপিত শুষ্কলতা বর্ষণ যাচে যথা কাতর অন্তর মোর লুণ্ঠিত ধূলি ‘পরে গীতসুধার তরে ॥ আজি বসন্তনিশা, আজি অনন্ত তৃষা, আজি এ জাগ্রত প্রাণ তৃষিত চকোর-সমান গীতসুধার তরে। চন্দ্র অতন্দ্র নভে জাগিছে সুপ্ত ভবে অন্তর বাহির আজি কাঁদে উদাস স্বরে গীতসুধার তরে ॥ My...
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Dan Corjescu |Vidyarthy Chatterjee |Musharraf Hussain |Samina Salim
Once we used to live together,perhaps like a joint family,or maybe like the inmates of the same prison,which Lord Mountbatten probably knew very well. Our history of sharing is of many years,and even today we share many things between us —memories, emotions, friendliness, and enmities. We also share borders marked by barbed wire,where you often hangthe bullet-pierced bodies of our Felanis.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Dan Corjescu |Vidyarthy Chatterjee |Musharraf Hussain |Samina Salim
Ὁ Ὕμνος εἰς τὴν Ἐλευθερίαν(Hymn To Freedom)Σὲ γνωρίζω ἀπὸ τὴν κόψητοῦ σπαθιοῦ τὴν τρομερή,σὲ γνωρίζω ἀπὸ τὴν ὄψη,ποῦ μὲ βία μετράει τὴ γῆ.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Prakash Louis |Nilofar Suhrawardy |Vidyarthy Chatterjee |Shahruk Ahmed Mazumdar
100 Day Program of Jharkhand Government, Some Agenda for Consideration1. We will review and discard the Land Bank Policy brought out by the BJP. In 2016, the BJP government, led by Raghubar Das, had introduced amendments in the state assembly to the CNT and another crucial land act in the state, the Santhal Paragana Tenancy Act. There were widespread protests against this move, which led to the incarceration of several protestors.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Nilofar Suhrawardy |Tabrez Alam |Vidyarthy Chatterjee |Shahruk Ahmed Mazumdar
Loktantra Bachao Abhiyan extends advance congratulations to the INDIA alliance government being formed today under the leadership of Chief Minister Hemant Soren. In this election, the people of Jharkhand have rejected the communal, divisive, and anti-Jharkhand politics of the BJP. This victory is a result of struggle of the Jharkhandis.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Vidyarthy Chatterjee |Musharraf Hussain |Samina Salim |Moumita Alam
(“The commissioning of India’s largest blast furnace at Kalinganagar (on September 20, 2024) is a momentous occasion for the steel industry.” – T.V. Narendran, Tata Steel CEO & MD) jal-jangal-jameen the diku’s for the taking muscleright in adivasi country disciplined by threats and bulldozers audacity of Ho mother’s prayer for a toehold on ancestral land didn’t go unnoticed toehold on earth she said her forefathers tilled fished bathed rummaged for nature’s bounties bullets flew knives...
