2+ hour, 51+ min ago  (721+ words) I was sad to hear "of the suicide committed by the daughter of" the editorial head of" India's" largest selling newspaper" in Mumbai recently. The girl aged 31 jumped from the top floor of a high rise buiding she lived in…...

1+ mon, 6+ hour ago  (676+ words) A porcelain urinal was displayed as a work of art in 1917 in New York and since then there has been a debate whether" such displays constitute art or a fraud. The artist in this case was Marcel Duchamp. Many such…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (1295+ words) Despite having " perhaps because of " a Holocaust Memorial in its capital, Berlin, and encouraging the belief that one can learn from how Germany dealt with its Nazi past, there is a dark " brown " underbelly of Nazism in Germany. Thirty-six years…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (650+ words) Mr. Trump, both publicly and privately, has been arguing that Venezuelan oil could help solve any shocks coming from the Iran war. In 2024 Venezuela produced900, 000 barrels of oilper day; normally 20 million barrels a day transit the Strait of Hormuz. But arithmetic…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (618+ words) Farm workers in USA make a very important contribution in the farm sector for the production of food and other crops but their welfare concerns are being neglected to a significant extent. These workers have been identified as being exposed…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (299+ words) In calling for "ICE Out of Marin" activists paralleled the universality of their cause with that of Benjamin Franklin who in 1777 while in Paris noted the newly established US Constitution's importance was "the cause of all mankindwe are fighting for…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (848+ words) The United States" decision to withdraw from more than sixty international organisations is not an administrative reshuffle, nor a routine assertion of sovereignty. It is a political declaration of abandonment " an unmistakable signal that the world"s most powerful nation…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (43+ words) Countercurrents. org On paper, the Forest Rights Act, 2006 (FRA), appears to provide legal protection for primitive tribes in Karnataka, safeguarding native communities against eviction from their ancestral lands. However, in practice," Join Countercurrents Annual Fund Raising Campaign and help us...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (946+ words) The dilution of MGNREGA rural employement scheme by the Central government has drawn a lot of criticism and that is the good part. But this also shows me how inadequate is the understanding of history on the part of some....

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (681+ words) Am I exaggerating? I am no social media maven, quite the opposite, but I don't think I am exaggerating. People have expressed horror. Anger. Disgust. How could he? Why did he? And have concluded I feel so deceived. So sullied....