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Nov 3, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Y.S.Jagan Mohan Reddy |Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd |Kevin Reed |Mohd Khan
I request the Indian media to publish this e-mail correspondence between me and Mr. N.S. Madhavan, as it involves the issue of Freedom of Expression, which is a lifeline of democracy. As a citizen of India and as a writer I strongly oppose any force that threatens, the freedom of expression, which is the sole of democracy. Here is the Hindu news link for your understanding.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Y.S.Jagan Mohan Reddy |Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd |Vivek Sakpal |Hiren Gohain
I started my sociopolitical activism as a Marxist in the 1970s and later turned to Ambedkarism in the 1980s. In both these schools of thought we critiqued Mahatma Gandhi as Varna wadi and varga wadi. For the first time in my life I went to Mani Bhavan, where Mahatma Gandhi lived, and which was named after his granddaughter Manuben Gandhi, to start the Nyay Sankalp Pada Yatra along with Rahul Gandhi on 17 March, 2024 in the city of Mumbai.
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Y.S.Jagan Mohan Reddy |Juan Cole |M K Bhadrakumar |Akbar E. Torbat
In the midst of Israel’s ongoing devastation of Gaza, one major piece of Middle Eastern news has yet to hit the headlines. In a face-off that, in a sense, has lasted since the pro-American Shah of Iran was overthrown by theocratic clerics in 1979, Iran finally seems to be besting the United States in a significant fashion across the region. It’s a story that needs to be told. “Hit Iran now.
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Mar 3, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Y.S.Jagan Mohan Reddy |David Sparenberg |George Capaccio |Dan Corjescu
The world is full. Filled with hardships. Filled with courage. Filled with suffering. EverywhereThere are human faces. Everywhere the pathosOf conscious mortality. Everywhere the pathosOf human faces. The world is full. Filled with struggles and denials. With longing voicesAnd despair. The rising and the fallingAnd the wasting of life. Filled with broken heartsAnd filled with mending souls. Filled with the scatteredLights of hope and happiness. Filled with the heavy shadowsOf sorrow.
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Mar 3, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Y.S.Jagan Mohan Reddy |Rahul Kumar |Manas Jena |Bharat Dogra
The unemployment rate in India has reached 45.4%, highest in 45 years. Of course, there are advertisements for government jobs but vacancies are not filled up. The Modi government is exposed on the economic front. A large number of youths with university degrees are struggling to secure stable employment. The Chief Minister of Haryana Manohar Lal Khattar proudly announced in the assembly that 219 skilled youths are selected for Israel.
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Mar 3, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Y.S.Jagan Mohan Reddy |Manas Jena |Bharat Dogra |Arjun Banerjee
We, the people of Odisha representing different social groups of socially marginalized sections, Mulnivasi, Indigenous, Adivasi, Dalit, Backward classes, and Religious Minorities (SCs, STs, OBCs, and RMs) constitute more than 90 percent of the population of the State, called Bahujan- the majority of people, assembled here at Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Lower PMG, Bhubaneswar on 28th Feb 2024. This is our land.
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Mar 3, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Y.S.Jagan Mohan Reddy |Bharat Dogra |Ayushya Singh |Madabhushi Sridhar
Chingari is an organization mainly of rural women of weaker sections which has been involved in raising several issues of justice and equality in parts of Bundelkhand region. One of its more active units in Banda district recently organized a two day camp in Rai Kolawalpur village (Mahua block) to introspect on the problems facing them and the challenges ahead on February 28 and March 1 2024.
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Mar 3, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Y.S.Jagan Mohan Reddy |Bharat Dogra |Manas Jena |Farooque Chowdhury
Those who are in-charge of implementing the PM-Awas scheme of rural housing can rightly take pride in what has been achieved in Dafai hamlet (Karvi block, Chitrakut district, Uttar Pradesh). All the Kol tribal families here are extremely poor and vulnerable. In a rare achievement, almost all of them have received housing assistance under PM Awas. What is more, corruption and payment of commissions has been avoided in this particular village, although it is a common practice elsewhere.
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Mar 3, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Y.S.Jagan Mohan Reddy |Farooque Chowdhury |Romi Mahajan |Bharat Dogra
Eco-Socialism or “Green” Capitalism?, Collected Writings of Saral Sarkar, Explanations, Elaborations and Interventions, Vols. I and II present most of Saral Sarkar’s political and political-economic essays and articles written in the personal computer age. The book introduces itself in the following way:“After the ignominious fall of the classical Soviet model of ‘socialism’ in the early 1990s, socialists, communists, and all other kinds of Leftists had felt to have been left in the lurch.
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Mar 3, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Y.S.Jagan Mohan Reddy |Thomas Klikauer |I Mallikarjuna Sharma |Fra Hughes
Interview of Ramnit, RSL with Editorial Board, Inquilab, The Central Organ of AIRSO on the Issue in OP Jindal Global UniversityEditorial Board: The series of events that took place in OP Jindal Global University, starting from the Show Cause Notice to the suspension and the assaults on Comrade Mukundan and you, were really shocking. Can you explain how it really started?
