I had been invited to Diyarbakir by the Human Rights Association, which does courageous and impressive work under conditions of constant serious threat. The preceding days I spent in Istanbul at the ...

countercurrents.org archive 15-31 October, 2003 ...

So, while the Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI) vice-president, Vincent Concessao, has no quarrel with an ordinance that seeks to prevent conversion by force or fraud/inducement, his fear is ...

Certainly then, Gupta should have been the last witness any judge would quote to discharge Advani in the Babri Masjid demolition case. But exactly the opposite has happened. She is, in fact, the first ...

But after the Civil War, things began to change. In the last year of the war, on November 21, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln looked back on the growing power of the war-enriched corporations, and ...

They were armed with sophisticated explosive materials, country weapons, daggers and trishuls. They also carried water bottles, to sustain them in their exertions. The leaders were seen communicating ...

offered to ally with dalits. It has put forward as an attractive formulation, Shiv Shakti+Bhim Shakti=Deshbhakti (Shiv Power+Bhims Power= Patriotism, Shiv Senas clout+ Dalits clout=Patriotism)).