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A dangerous turn? Why India must reject gene-edited rice

By Bharat Dogra   India stands at a crossroads. The future of its agriculture—and indeed its food sovereignty—hangs in the balance. The nation’s true strength lies in its potential to lead the world in natural, climate-resilient farming, grounded in agro-ecology, soil and water conservation, and the rich heritage of its indigenous seeds. This is the path to self-reliance and healthy food. Yet, this promising vision is under siege by the hidden and overt representatives of global agribusiness, who are determined to entangle Indian agriculture in a corporate-led model that prioritizes profit over people, sustainability, and nutrition.
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Tied, beaten, paraded: Legal notice alleges Gujarat police tortured murder accused in public view

By A Representative    The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Gujarat, has issued a formal legal notice to the state’s top administrative and police brass demanding immediate criminal, departmental, and disciplinary action against officers of the Nilambaug Police Station in Bhavnagar for allegedly subjecting a murder accused to brutal custodial torture and public humiliation.
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People’s audit in Mangolpuri flags voter-roll discrepancies, seeks public scrutiny of Delhi SIR process

Counterview News   A people-led audit of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Mangolpuri’s Y-Block has brought renewed scrutiny to the accuracy of Delhi’s draft electoral rolls, with citizen volunteers and civil-society groups reporting cases in which voters allegedly found themselves wrongly classified as absent, shifted, dead or duplicate, or missing altogether from the draft list.
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PIL seeks suspension of school-based HPV vaccination over consent violations

By A Representative   The Universal Health Organisation (UHO) has filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) before the Supreme Court of India seeking judicial intervention to ensure that the country's nationwide Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination Programme complies with constitutional guarantees of informed consent , bodily autonomy, transparency, and accountability.
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Bihar's health procurement row: Allegations, evidence and accountability

By Kumar Krishnan*  Spending public money is easy. Ensuring that every rupee is spent prudently, transparently and for the purpose for which it was sanctioned is far more difficult. This becomes particularly important in the health sector, where public expenditure is ultimately meant to serve patients and strengthen an overstretched healthcare system.
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The great education divide: Why India's government schools need a revival

By Aravind Yadappanavar*   The contrast could not be starker. On one side stand government schools—crumbling infrastructure, inadequate teachers, and poor sanitary conditions that drive children away. On the other, private institutions flaunt colourful campaign flyers, multi-storied buildings, and children in crisp uniforms with ties, belts, and shoes. This visual dichotomy represents a deeper crisis in Indian education that demands urgent attention.
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Caste, race, and the government's convenient blind spot: The UN rings an alarm on discrimination

By Vikas Meshram*  For the first time since 2007, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has conducted a detailed review of India's human rights situation, and the findings that have emerged are deeply serious and thought-provoking. India had not submitted its report to this Committee for nearly two decades, which makes this review significant in more ways than one.
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From McCarthy to Modi: Anti-intellectualism as a tool of domination

By Bhabani Shankar Nayak*  The anti-intellectualism of authoritarian leaders is not new. From the McCarthy era to the Trump administration in the United States, from Indira Gandhi’s Emergency to Narendra Modi’s India, from military-mullah rule in Pakistan to Thatcherite Britain, and from the reactionary right’s advance across Europe to the dictatorships of Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America—one pattern repeats: illiberal regimes consistently display a visceral disdain for intellectuals and for critical inquiry itself.
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'Things happen': How Iran is exploiting a wounded empire's complacency

By Vijay Prashad   On 2 September, fragments from a US missile tore through the roof of a wedding celebration in Kuhestak, in Iran’s southern county of Sirik. Four people were killed, including a child, and sixty-eight were wounded. The United States has made a custom of bombing weddings – in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, and now Iran. When US Vice-President J. D. Vance was asked about the dead, he shrugged: ‘Things happen’. The sentence should be entered into the record of this war. Imperialism turns other people’s catastrophes into the passive voice.
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Riverfront or river death? SANDRP warns of ecosystem collapse

Counterview News   The environmental advocacy group South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People (SANDRP) has published a hard-hitting analysis of Pune's ongoing River Front Development (RFD) project , framing its concerns around fundamental questions that challenge the project's technical, ecological, and legal foundations.
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