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3 weeks ago | 
lokmarg.com | Vikas Meshram |Amit Sengupta
Even before the end of March, several parts of India are experiencing a heatwave. On March 16, Odisha recorded a temperature of 43°C, while Jharsuguda touched 42°C. In more than half a dozen locations across the country, temperatures exceeded 40°C. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has confirmed that such unusual March heatwaves were unprecedented. Notably, 2024 was recorded as the hottest year in human history. March 2023 was the warmest March on record, and March 2024 surpassed that record.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Suparna Banerjee |Shreya Singh |Vikas Meshram |Yanis Iqbal
“Rape cases are on the rise because boys and girls interact more freely now. Earlier, if men and women held hands, they would be caught and reprimanded by parents, but now everything is so open. It’s like an open market with open options.”Mamata Banerjee, CM West Bengal, 2012.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Shreya Singh |Vikas Meshram |Yanis Iqbal |Nilofar Suhrawardy
The National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) expresses its deep shock and strongly condemns the recent judgment of the Allahabad High Court, dated March 19, delivered by Justice Ram Manohar Narayan Mishra, which stated that “grabbing the breast of a girl and breaking her pant string is not an attempt to rape, but an attempt to sexually molest.”The judgment came in the context of an incident in 2021 when an 11-year-old girl was attacked by two men in Kasganj area of Uttar Pradesh.
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1 month ago | 
lokmarg.com | Vikas Meshram |Amit Sengupta
Climate change has now become the biggest threat to the entire world. The reckless exploitation of natural resources, deforestation, increasing materialistic desires, and pollution in various sectors have further intensified this crisis. Rising global temperatures and unpredictable climate changes are affecting every aspect of life, severely impacting the environment, livelihoods, lifestyle, food, water, and health. No aspect of life remains untouched by its consequences.
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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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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Vikas Meshram |Robert Hunziker |Masatsugu Asakawa |Bill McKibben
Climate change has now become the biggest threat to the entire world. The reckless exploitation of natural resources, deforestation, increasing materialistic desires, and pollution in various sectors have further intensified this crisis. Rising global temperatures and unpredictable climate changes are affecting every aspect of life, severely impacting the environment, livelihoods, lifestyle, food, water, and health. No aspect of life remains untouched by its consequences.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Robert Hunziker |Vikas Meshram |Masatsugu Asakawa |Bill McKibben
“We are running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.” (Elon Musk interview, Icons: Elon Muck Doesn’t Let Up at Tesla, SpaceX,USA Today, April 17, 2013)Dear Elon, it has started.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Vikas Meshram |Robert Hunziker |Masatsugu Asakawa |Bill McKibben
Decisive climate action is crucial to preventing the dangerous decline of sea ice. Favorable policies and improved polar monitoring will enhance climate resilience. Reducing emissions and protecting the planet’s fragile cryosphere depend on collective determination. Many communities are not prepared to face climate change threats. Investing in resilient infrastructure that can withstand future climate risks is essential. Sea ice plays a crucial role in regulating the Earth’s climate.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Vikas Meshram |Robert Hunziker |Masatsugu Asakawa |Bill McKibben
Climate change is considered one of the most serious global crises of our time. The increasing frequency and intensity of natural disasters such as rising temperatures, unseasonal rainfall, wildfires, floods, droughts, and cyclones are evident. India is among the countries most affected by climate change. According to the Climate Risk Index published by Germanwatch, India was the seventh most affected country in the world in 2019.
