T. Vijayendra
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Bicycle And Women’s Liberation| Countercurrents
One hundred years ago, Alice Hawkins, a suffragette, cycled around Leicester (UK) promoting the women's rights movement, causing outrage by being one of the → Read More
Bicycle Is The Future: Cycling In Indian Cities And Its Future| Countercurrents
The bicycle, invented two hundred years ago in 1817, was called an iron horse because like a horse it is an individual transport. However on occasions it can → Read More
Book Review: A Forgotten Feminist| Countercurrents
GANDHI AUR SARLA DEVI CHAUDHARANI: BARAHA ADHYAY (GANDHI AND SARLA DEVI CHAUDHARANI: TWELVE CHAPTERS) By Alka Saraogi 2023, New Delhi, Vani Prakashan, Pp. 216, Price Rs. 299/- Alka Saraogi (1960- ) is a well known modern Hindi author. She received the Sahitya Akademi award for her first novel, ‘Kalikatha via Bypass‘ in 2001. Since then it has been translated in many Indian and European… → Read More
What Does It Mean To Be Human? An Anarchist/Humanist Perspective| Countercurrents
If you feel pain then you are alive. If you feel the pain of others then you are human. → Read More
Sustainable Consumption, Sustainability In Value Chain| Countercurrents
Now, a rough definition of sustainability is that we consume resources in such a way that the same level of resources we enjoyed is available to succeeding → Read More
Capitalism: Why We Should Scrap It| Countercurrents
This is a new book by Ted Trainer. You can free download (170 pp.) at: → Read More
Questioning Technological Determinism
This is part II of an essay in two parts on modern technology and its demise. Part I deals with the history of modern technology starting from the Industrial → Read More
Questioning Technological Determinism -1| Countercurrents
This is an essay in two parts on modern technology and its demise. Part I deals with the history of modern technology starting from the Industrial Revolution → Read More
Book Review: People’s Tales From Narmada Valley| Countercurrents
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Atheist, Irreligious And Anarchist| Countercurrents
India is going through a lot of communal tensions for the last few years. As a response to it some secular persons have been, among other things, organising → Read More
Marxism And Anarchism| Countercurrents
Recently Arun Kumar Sinha posted in Marx_Forum, Murray Bookchin’s pamphlet ‘Listen! Marxist!’ This was published in the '50s in which he admonished and → Read More
Sharab, Shabab Aur Kebab -III| Countercurrents
Morality in Political Discourse in India This is a three part article and each part is complete in itself. Therefore each part is being published with the same title. The Introduction will be repeated in each part for the sake of making it complete in itself. PART III KEBAB ‘We are, therefore, largely a drinking, smoking and meat-eating people’! Dr. Kumar Suresh Singh (1935 – 2006), Director… → Read More
Sharab, Shabab Aur Kebab -II| Countercurrents
Morality in Political Discourse in India This is a three part article and each part is complete in itself. Therefore each part is being published with the same title. The Introduction will be repeated in each part for the sake of making it complete in itself. PART II SHABAB ‘We are, therefore, largely a drinking, smoking and meat-eating people’! Dr. Kumar Suresh Singh (1935 – 2006), Director… → Read More
Sharab, Shabab Aur Kebab -1| Countercurrents
Morality in Political Discourse in India This is a three part article and each part is complete in itself. Therefore each part is being published with the same title. The Introduction will be repeated in each part for the sake of making it complete in itself. PART I SHARAB ‘We are, therefore, largely a drinking, smoking and meat-eating people’! Dr. Kumar Suresh Singh (1935 – 2006), Director… → Read More
Abolishing The Competitive Examinations For Entrance To Educational Institutions| Countercurrents
Tamil Nādu abolishes the competitive examinations for admissions to medical colleges → Read More
Kurosawa’s Ikiru And The Current Spate Of Resignation Among Professionals| Countercurrents
Ikiru (‘To Live’) is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film examines the struggles of a terminally ill Tokyo bureaucrat and his final quest → Read More
World Soil Day| Countercurrents
Today December 5, is celebrated as the world soil day (WSD). The proposal for a global day to celebrate soil was first recommended in the year 2002 by the → Read More
Bicycle In Jamshedpur| Countercurrents
In the twentieth century nothing represented the working class culture more than the bicycle did. That is why the film ‘Bicycle Thief’ (1948, Italy, → Read More
English In India| Countercurrents
However, English is indisputably the most powerful. Proficiency in English determines the power dynamics amongst individuals, communities and regions. → Read More
Neo Liberalism And The Decline Of The Roadster In India| Countercurrents
Roadster Roadster is the standard or as in Bengal we call it the ‘Bangla’ cycle. Its design was perfected around 1890 and it has not changed significantly since then. Many people think it is old fashioned and they want to go for ‘fancy’ cycles. However the roadster has a great resilience and remains the choice for millions all over the world. What is more in some parts of the Western world,… → Read More