Subhash Gatade
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Manusmriti: Unending Fascination?| Countercurrents
Whether the proposed inauguration of Manusmriti at Telugu University, Hyderabad be stopped ? → Read More
A Dampner To The Bulldozer Raj ?| Countercurrents
Can the Guwahati High Court’s Judgement on ‘Illegal Demolitions’ act as a break to the growing normalisation of ‘Bulldozer Justice’ ? → Read More
Repackaging Golwalker For Our Times| Countercurrents
The search for enemies of 'Mother India' has perhaps finally ended for RSS. → Read More
Legitimate Rights Of Victims| Countercurrents
Time the ruling dispensation decides whether it is committed to rule of law and protection of rights of victims and survivors of heinous crimes or their → Read More
Want To Write A Book, Contact The Government First| Countercurrents
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth — more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not… → Read More
Away With All Babadom?| Countercurrents
Why criticism of religion should now come on the agenda ? → Read More
When Worship Itself Becomes A Crime| Countercurrents
Fariba Dalir and Sakin Behjati' prison sentence has just begun. → Read More
Remembering Gauri Lankesh, Renewing A Pledge| Countercurrents
We lost Gauri Lankesh, journalist, activist and very passionate human being, exactly five years back → Read More
Bilkis In Hindu Rashtra !| Countercurrents
Whether Remission of Sentences of her Perpetrators offers a template for Victims / Survivors How Justice Would End for them now onwards ? → Read More
Silence Of The Powerful!| Countercurrents
Why the Corporate Czars are Silent over increasing attacks on Social Fabric and rising Communalism → Read More
Axing Scholarships, Denying Opportunities| Countercurrents
Aruna's long struggle to get overseas scholarship is one such story. → Read More
'New India' : How The 'other' Lives ?| Countercurrents
A note on ‘Indian Muslims’ by Ms Humra Quraishi Farid, the earth questioned the sky, Where are the mighty captains gone ? In their grave they rot, was the reply And rebuked for tasks Not done * Baba Farid Shakarganj ( 1173- 1265) A video of a photographer jumping on the dead body of a hapless ‘encroacher’ from Assam has gone viral. By the time you read these lines the photographer must have been… → Read More
A Look At The ‘Other Kareena’!| Countercurrents
Gurupreet Singh, author and journalist, based in British Columbia, Canada who is also director of an online journal ‘Radical Desi’ exactly tries to do this → Read More
Living with the Virus?
Whether people of the world will have to learn to live with the virus? As India and many parts of the world seem to be engulfed by the second or third wave of the Coronavirus epidemic – which is more dangerous and has appeared with new symptoms – this idea is being pushed from different quarters. Newspaper articles or surveys[Read More...] → Read More
Do Not Burn Books, Stop People Reading Them!
‘You may burn my books and the books of the best minds in Europe, but the ideas those books contain have passed through millions of channels and will go on.'” Helen Keller, An Open Letter to German Students ‘Fahrenheit 451’ It was the name of a movie which had appeared in mid-sixties. ( 1966) The only English movie directed by[Read More...] → Read More
Unpacking Religious Nationalism
Review of ‘Religious Nationalism – Social Perceptions and Violence : Sectarianism on Political Chessboard‘ by Ram Puniyani, Media House 2020 “Blatant dictatorship – in the form of fascism, communism, or military rule – has disappeared across much of the world. Military coups and other violent seizures of power are rare. Most countries hold regular elections. Democracies still die, but by[Read… → Read More
How to Really Compensate for Injustice Committed
Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K, he knew he had done nothing wrong but one morning, he was arrested. These opening lines of Franz Kafka’s classic novel, The Trial, published just over a century ago, in 1925, still ring true. Joseph K, the novel’s protagonist, is cashier at a bank. On his 30th birthday, two unidentified agents arrest[Read More...] → Read More
Has Indian Democracy Been Facebooked?
Belarus-born American writer Evgeny Morozov, a scholar of the political and social implications of technology, is among the early technology sceptics whose words have now proved prescient. Morozov had questioned the claim that the internet would challenge dictatorships even at an inconvenient time to do so. While thousands were out on streets during the Arab Spring, he delivered a Ted[Read… → Read More
Corporate Social Media in India: Sell Hate, Enjoy Profit
The bias that social media platforms such as Facebook display reflect their own world-view as much as it does the regimes they support. A few gave the appearance of being truly psychopathic individuals. The mass of others were ragged and illiterate peasants easily roused to hatred of the Tutsi. Perhaps the most sinister people I met were the educated political[Read More...] → Read More
Hero of Our Times?
How does a poet respond to the situation of a city under siege? For a poet, a crisis can trigger a tenacious journey even in the midst of a siege. The Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’s Memory for Forgetfulness tracks the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon in which Beirut, where he lived, was bombed. “Beirut, surrounded by Israeli tanks and official Arab paralysis,” he wrote. Beirut is holding on… → Read More