The Dark Face of Mumbai By Prabhat Sharan 25 October, 2010 The Verdict Weekly Blood stained brown gold and mean streets of Mumbai housing mafia and Mumbai underworld I t was business as usual in ...

Anyone foolish enough to write on war or peace in the Indus needs to first banish a set of immediate suspicions. I am neither Indian nor Pakistani. I am a South African who has worked on water ...

Now who has the last laugh? That is the question; I only have pity for those who cannot see reality and who were so glib to buy into what the media and political troubleshooters were saying about ...

"I believe they were people who knew what they wanted. They had passed by the gypsum copy of the Black Obelisk. This means that they must have been specialists. They did not touch those copies ...

To the question whether the Hindus ever ate beef, every Touchable Hindu, whether he is a Brahmin or a non-Brahmin, will say ‘no, never’. In a certain sense, he is right. From times no Hindu ...

Monga, Micro credit And The Nobel Prize By Anu Muhammad 04 December, 2006 Countercurrents.org 'We link the poor to the market...' NGO official in Bangladesh "When I feed the poor they called me a ...

Ambedkar And Tagore: Two Visionaries By Ananya Mukherjee Reed 11 May, 2011 Outlook India When we speak of inequality and democracy, B.R. Ambedkar's name is almost automatically invoked, but the ...

This is the 40th anniversary of the March on Washington, when Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I have a dream" speech. Perhaps it's time to reflect — again — on what has become of that ...

Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818–March 14, 1883), the visionary, the seer of social justice. He stands tall among the prophets of human history. He provided a philosophical framework for human ...

M.S. Golwalkar: Conceptualizing Hindutva Fascism By Ram Puniyani 10 March, 2006 Countercurrents.org B eginning this twenty Fourth February, RSS combine has undertaken programs in different parts ...

The Indian peasantry, the largest body of surviving small farmers in the world, today faces a crisis of extinction. Two thirds of India makes its living from the land. The earth is the most ...

US Media Bias: Covering Israel/Palestine By Remi Kanazi 23 March, 2006 Countercurrents.org O n July 18, 2005 14 year old Ragheb al-Masri sat in the back of a taxi with his parents at the Abo Holi ...