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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Howard Breen |Phil Pasquini |zeenat khan
Historically the concept of revolution as an inspirational concept has been based on an understanding, firstly, that in any place and time the extent of distress caused by man-made factors is intolerably high; secondly that isolated small efforts are not adequate and more systemic change is needed to reduce significantly the intensity as well as the causes of distress; and thirdly that it is possible for human beings to bring such big and systemic change.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Yanis Iqbal |Tamanna Joshi |zeenat khan |Bhabani Nayak
The emergence of feminist politics has led to a patriarchal counter-revolution that pays lip-service to “equality” while insisting that women and men should occupy different, separate places in society. In the case of Islamists, this ideology takes the following form: Islam recognizes the equality of men and women but underlines their separate and complementary roles/responsibilities based on God-given differences.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Bhabani Nayak |Ram Puniyani |Chandra Muzaffar |zeenat khan
Hindutva politics has consolidated its base and risen to power by co-opting mass movements against neoliberal capitalism, presenting nationalist Gandhian socialism as an alternative. However, after assuming power, Hindutva-led governments under Vajpayee and Modi have relentlessly pursued neoliberal policies, betraying the public mandate against the post-1991 economic framework.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | zeenat khan |Bharat Dogra |Chandra Muzaffar |Binoy Kampmark
[Left] When Kalpana was rescued in October 2024. [Right] Kalpana is set to be released from the hospital in 2025. Photos: CollectedVery often, it is hard to go through a month without reading a horrid story of a domestic worker victim, who has had to endure unimaginable violence in the hands of an employer. Nowhere in the world other than Bangladesh does it occur so frequently.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Binoy Kampmark |Alfred de Zayas |alfred de zayas |Ralph Nader |zeenat khan
It has the feeling of a ghastly ending, one pushed along by desperation and eagerness. First, levelling Gaza and turning it to an uninhabitable moonscape, with the promise of a territory free of Palestinians. Then, displacing and destroying the already precarious holdings of Palestinian residents in the West Bank, all the time subjecting them to curfews, arrests and detentions while aiding vigilante Jewish settlers, firming up the system of segregation and snuffing out any prospect of autonomy.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | zeenat khan |Richard Heinberg |Zoya Teirstein |Fedaa al-Qedra
I have not heard much about Pakistani activist and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai since she graduated from Oxford University in 2020. At 24, she got married in 2021 to a Pakistani man. She announcedthe news on Twitter, sharing photos of the Islamic marriage ceremony known as the nikkah.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | zeenat khan |Kamakshi Balasubramanian |Mirza Yawar Baig |Philip Farruggio
Two women whom I have seen so far to have aged gracefully are my Amma (mother) and Zeenat Aman. These ladies do not have much in common; they belonged on two different ends of spectrums. Amma was a domestic goddess who took care of her family and home by creating a feeling of warmth and welcome. Zeenat Aman is a sensual woman, a Bollywood sensation, known to have made “scandalous” headlines back in the day for her seductive dance moves in many films.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Suresh Khairnar |Bruce Lerro |Harsh Thakor |zeenat khan
Humble greetings on the occasion of 128th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose on 23rd January. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is going to be 100 years old on the coming Dussehra, but in these 100 years it could not produce even a single national level leader and the biggest opportunity to become a national level leader was the freedom struggle of India, from which Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh kept itself away so that the British rulers would not get angry.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Bruce Lerro |Suresh Khairnar |Harsh Thakor |zeenat khan
OrientationWhat are the characteristics of a hero? Do you have to be famous to be a hero? How valuable or counter-productive is it for celebrities to be our heroes? Some feel that even having heroes at all is a concession to hierarchical social relations and we are better off without them. As I write this Luigi Mangione, alleged murderer of a Healthcare CEO is a hero to many. Is this the beginning of rebellion against capitalism or is it a distraction from it? What about heroes and class?
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Suresh Khairnar |Harsh Thakor |zeenat khan |Qurban Ali
Today,20 January 2024, it will be thirty-five years since Badshah Khan left this world! Although he had suffered more imprisonment and torture during the British Raj than any other citizen of present-day Pakistan during India’s freedom struggle and although his political journey began with his participation in the first convention of the Muslim League in Agra in 1913, Badshah Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was one of the first people to be staunchly opposed to the creation of Pakistan in the Lahore...
