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Countercurrents.org GUWAHATI: The echo of the Shahbag protest in Bangladesh was heard about 200 miles away here on Sunday with citizens, under the banner of Janamat, expressing solidarity with protesters in that country. Janamat, a Guwahati-based ...

Even as intolerance gets increasing mainstream legitimacy in India, voices of reason are turning into a chorus Hope is a waking dream. Every time you despair the land of the myriad hues and amazing contrasts that is India, its many heroes give you ...

Every time I despair of the land of the myriad hues and contradictions that is India, every time its many heroes give me fresh hope. And every time I stick out my neck to share the insecurities and concerns of my tribe and other dispossessed, I ...

But there are also those out there who never cease to amaze you with their generosity of spirit and ability to feel others' pain. One such blessed soul is my friend Shashank Sharma, who heads a multinational IT giant. (I hope he will forgive this ...

One midnight in July 2001 special branch police picked up Wasif Haider, 29, a Muslim sales manager of an American multinational firm from his residence in the north Indian city of Kanpur. They tortured him in custody for three days before arresting ...

Activists say many innocent young Muslims languish unnecessarily in Indian prisons for prolonged periods of time on charges of terrorism. The Indian government has announced plans to help them. One midnight in July 2001 special branch police picked ...

A section of the people are supporting the Jamat's cause under the pretext that the historic Shahbagh movement is being led by youth who are atheists, un-Islamic. A cursory glance at the then East Pakistan (modern day Bangladesh) history makes it ...

Countercurrents.org Ur-Fascism [Eternal Fascism] is still around us, sometimes in plainclothes. It would be much easier for us if there appeared on the world scene somebody saying, "I want to reopen Auschwitz, I want the Blackshirts to parade again ...

The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting has reconstituted the Central Press Accreditation Committee(CPAC). The CPAC functions as a body to approve applications for accreditation from the media, both Indian as well as foreign. The members of the ...