Source: Countercurrents.org Seven people, including four sanitation workers, died of suffocation while cleaning a hotel sewer in Gujarat, news agency PTI reported. The incident took place at a hotel in Fartikui village... 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 The new Foreigners (Tribunals) Amendment Order 2019 allows all states to constitute their own FTs, earlier unique to Assam, to address the question of citizenship of a person. Sources claim... Read more »
Source: Sabrangindia.in In arecent judgement that gave some sense of justice, Special Judge (SC/ST Act), Pradeep Mittal, sentenced all 13 accused to life imprisonment for a fatal attack on a farmer who... Read more »
Source: Countercurrents.org By Ram Puniyani We are living in times where the social norms, the values of Constitution have been violated times and over again. The increasing atrocities on dalits, the lynchings of... Read more »
Source: Countercurrents.org By C Vanaja “We received information that 100 to 150 Naxals had gathered deep in the forest and constituted a search party of 100 and went in search of them. When... Read more »
Source: Counterview.org By Kanchi Kohli As the country geared up for the 17th Lok Sabha elections, the first quarter of 2019 saw two decisions that signify the deeply fraught forest governance in... Read more »
Source: Counterview.net By Sumeet Mhaskar The scale of workforce employed in stigmatized occupations is enormous and each of the industries holds significant positions in the economy. For instance, in India there are ‘more than... Read more »
Source: Countercurrents.org By Vidya Bhushan Rawat Dr Ram Puniyani is one of the most prolific authors of our time writing on communalism particular that of the Sangh Parivar variety. At the time, when... Read more »
Source: Countercurrents.org By Badre Alam Khan The secular minded academics and civil society have reminded us once again that Nehru’s secular legacy needs to be remembered in a given political context, on the... Read more »
Source: Sabrangindia.in June, 7: In a scathing letter to the Government of India, five senior officials of the United Nations have expressed regret at the lack of response from the government on... Read more »
Source: Sabrangindia.in By Deborah Grey June, 7: The Gathbandhan, a grand alliance of secular forces committed to uplifting the subalterns, or a substantial part of them at least, has shockingly fared rather poorly... Read more »
Source: Sabrangindia.in By Nihar Gokhale, Land Conflict Watch Osmanabad (Maharashtra): Rambhau Kamble was five years old when he first saw Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar. On that February morning in 1941, Ambedkar–eight years away from framing... Read more »
Source: Sabrangindia.in By Battini Rao June, 7: Reservations have been continued and extended by democratically elected governments. Citizens have a right to criticize any government policy or law. However, no one has a... Read more »
Source: Sabrangindia.in Gumla town, Jharkhand: Irshad Khan knew there would be trouble when he saw the procession. “They were up to no good,” he said of the Ram Navami revellers in Gumla... Read more »
Source: Counterview.net By Fr Cedric Prakash sj India today is at a defining moment of her history. There is so much that has taken place in the past five years (and particularly... Read more »
Source: Counterview.net By Gladson Dungdung A village called Perka is situated at Murhu development block in Khunti district of Jharkhand, which is approximately 55 kilometers from Ranchi, the capital city of Jharkhand.... 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 »
Source: Countercurrents.org By Pieter Friedrich “In the west, we have labels,” commented journalist François Gautier on WION TV, during a panel about the results of India’s 2019 general election. “Right, left. Far-right, far-left.... Read more »
Source: Countercurrents.org By Skand Priya The BSP, SP and RLD pre election alliance in UP was formed keeping in view the percentage numbers that these parties had secured in the previous general elections... Read more »