Mumbai, July 8 (IANS) Anubhav Sinha’s hard-hitting new film, “Article 15”, takes an unflinching look at caste discrimination and is earning good numbers at the box office. The filmmaker said his motive... Read more »
New Delhi, July 7 (IANS) Best-selling author Chetan Bhagat says he likes to use his writing not just to tell stories but also to bring attention to some of the issues within... Read more »
BY QUAID NAJMI Mumbai, June 14 (IANS) Acclaimed actor-filmmaker Ananth Mahadevan’s award-winning bio-docu, “Village Of A Lesser God” — his labour of love which took a staggering six years to make — will... Read more »
By Sheshu Babu While summer is uncomfortable to most of middle class people, it takes heavy toll of the daily laborers, marginalised casual workers and industrial manual employees. The rich and most... Read more »
Source: Sabrangindia.in By Kanika Katyal We live in nature! We die in Nature! It’s our life, if you occupy our land where should we go and how do we live? Whose land is... Read more »
New Delhi, June 6 (IANS) About 240 folk artefacts, including textiles, ‘mohras’ and masks, from medieval and modern Himachal Pradesh, will be on display at “Unknown Masterpieces of Himachal Folk Art” that opens... Read more »
Source: Countercurrents.org By Vidya Bhushan Rawat The election verdict 2019 has send shock waves among the Ambedkarite-Bahujan activists all over the country particularly in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, where people expected huge gains... Read more »
BY VISHAV New Delhi, May 26 (IANS) Even after giving almost 40 years of his life to government service, retired civil servant S.K. Misra felt his work was still not complete. The former... Read more »
Source: Counterview.net By Santosh Gedam Reserve and protected forest ideas evolved during colonial period to allow British government unfettered access to further its interests by trampling rights of forest dwellers. Forest governance... Read more »
Source: Countercurrents.org By Sheshu Babu “The backward classes have come to realise that after all education is the greatest material benefit for which they can fight….’Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Past few years have... Read more »
Source: Sabrangindia.in By Zamser Ali Guwahati, 17th May: About 3.8 lakhs of people, who failed to submit claim applications for inclusion of names in the National Register of Citizens (NRC) before the December... Read more »
Source: Countercurrents.org By Badre Alam Khan As the last phase of 2019 election campaign is just going to be concluded within a few days,political parties are now busy in scrambling for the votes... Read more »
Source: Sabrangindia.in By Oommen C Kurian New Delhi: As India prepares to become the world’s most-populous country by 2024, family planning–the ‘Family Welfare’ in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare–continues to get... Read more »
Source: Counterview.net A group of signatories — 10 organizations and 94 individuals* — including activists, academicians, lawyers, doctors, journalists and researchers, have sent an open letter to scientists of the National Institute... Read more »
Source: Counterview.org Several reports in the media had highlighted the violations of prescribed menu by Akshaya Patra Foundation (APF) in supply of food under Mid-day Meals (MDM) scheme in Karnataka, by refusing... Read more »
Source: Counterview.net By Debmalya Nandy National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) functionaries were recently out of duty for nearly two-and-a-half months, as they were protesting and demanding for better remuneration and facilities.... Read more »
BY SAEED NAQVI If Indira Gandhi had won the 1977 general elections, it would have been a popular endorsement of her Emergency regime. Why would Narendra Modi’s return after the elections be... Read more »
Source: Countercurrents.org By Vaishnavi Rathore The Supreme Court order of February 13, 2019 on the forced eviction of more than 1,000,000 forest-dwelling households from forestlands across 16 states, once again brought to the... Read more »
Source: Countercurrents.org By Kuriakose Mathew Dead capital is the capital that cannot (easily) be converted into investment. Hernando de Soto’s term dead capital could have been about India as well. The country has... Read more »
New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) Gond art, a tribal art form intricately linked with nature, has found a contemporary outlet in the works of Venkat Raman Singh Shyam, a second-generation artist from the... Read more »