A Concocted History: With Present Relevance

Countercurrents.org Life and death are part of our growing but some deaths leave you in a sense of deep loss where you do feel the loss of inheritance of a movement which we all contribute to build to see India a secular progressive nation where ...

If the first Bharatiya Janata Party Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, loved production of nuclear bombs, the second BJP Prime Minister seems to love bullet trains. Ever since a US visa was denied to him, he's developed love for China and Japan.

Watching the football World Cup games in Brazil offers many simple lessons in history for those Indians who think that the Hindus are original inhabitants of India while Christians and Muslims are foreigners. Before some football fan chokes on ...

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To raise the concerns of women, one does not have to be a woman; to raise the issue of a tribal, one does not need to be a tribal. If we go by the absurd argument of let alone or a religious laissez faire, then no one will have any right to speak ...

In general it may be said that Western societies are divided by classes while Indian society has been divided across caste lines. There is a widespread misconception that the Bhagavad Gita sanctions the institution of caste. Such a view is deeply ...

File photo of protesters demanding reservations for Marathas Anticipating legal wrangles over its decision on reservations for Marathas and Muslims, the Congress-NCP government has decided to justify its action with historical evidence. The ...

Countercurrents.org In the year 2012, there was an newspaper advertisement in The Hindu (dated April 07, 2012) which openly advertised for sale of flats to Brahmins Only, and after my complaint to the Chairman of the Press Council of India, the ...

Says Imran Khan's philos­ophy illega­l, unethi­cal and uncons­tituti­onal. Why has Imran Khan announced a march on the federal capital before the end of the one-month deadline he has given to the government to respond ...