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Five Ex-Armed Forces Chiefs Write To President, PM On Haridwar Hate Speeches
by Countercurrents Collective
Five former chiefs of staff of the armed forces and over a hundred other people including veterans, bureaucrats, and prominent citizens have written to President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi regarding “open call of the genocide of Indian Muslims” at various events, most recently in Uttarakhand’s Haridwar and Delhi. The letter also mentions targeting of other minorities like Christians, Dalits, and Sikhs.
Letter to PM: Concern at the recent reports emanating from Haridwar in Uttarakhand
by K.R. Venugopal & E.A.S. Sarma
Two former senior government of India officers write to PM Modi on Haridwar hate speeches
From abusing Gandhi to advocating genocide
by Alishan Jafri , Neel Madhav and Apoorvanand
It’s been over 12 days since the explicit calls for mass killing of the Muslim community were made at the ‘Dharma’ Sansad in Haridwar by prominent religious clerics of the Hindu faith. As of now, the police and state look helpless to make arrests. The police are seen laughing with the perpetrators and the state’s CM is seen touching their feet.
In 2022, Looking for Hope in A Troubled World
by Bharat Dogra
It will require a strong sense of optimism to look for hope at the begininning of 2022. Nevertheless try we
must to seek and summon hope from whichever nook or corner we can find it.
A Happy New 2022? Perhaps!
by Irwin Jerome
A Happy New 2022 to All that, hopefully, PERHAPS, will be a far better one than the butt-ugly year that was 2021.
Bhima Koregaon is a battle of self esteem and social change ….
by Vikas Parashram Meshram
The Peshwas could not stand against the brave army of the Mahar Regiment and the Peshwas were defeated in this battle. The Peshwa Empire came to an end. A victory pillar was erected on the banks of the river Bhima to commemorate the unprecedented feats of the Mahar Regiment. On which the names of those Mahar knights were written, we should all realize that the Maratha Empire had already ended. Ever since the Peshwas conquered the Maratha Empire, it has been said that the battle was fought between
the Marathas and the British or between the Marathas and the Mahars.
Journalism in Existential Crisis
by Hiren Gohain
What can news be in this situation shorn of ideology,which the upright CJI seems to regard as the bane of current Indian journalism? On the other hand we have a plethora of post-truth in the form of outright lies and distortions, reporting laced with communal poison and implicit violence,and on the other hand some courageous and factually correct stories that do not fail to imply the threats to secular democracy upheld by the constitution
Politics of language: Why Hindi surpassed Bengali
by BZ Khasru
When the British ordered the exclusive use of the Nagari script in school in 1880 to meet a Hindu demand in the state of Bihar, the Muslims howled. The Hindi-Urdu duel in the end exploded into Hindu-Muslim
war. In free India, Hindi gained the national stature as a symbol of Hindu pride and spread nationwide like wildfire, partly thanks to Bombay movies.
