Counterview

By A Representative    In a strongly-worded open letter to the government, a collective of 108 former top civil servants has raised serious concerns over the design and conduct of the upcoming Census 2027, warning that the expanded questionnaire risks compromising the confidentiality and credibility of India's foundational statistical exercise.

By A Representative   Congress leader and AICC national spokesperson Shaktisinh Gohil has alleged that the Narendra Modi government’s newly approved “Samudra Manthan” scheme for offshore exploration has been designed to benefit the Adani Group, and demanded that the scheme be scrapped or its proposed ₹84,084 crore outlay be diverted to state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC).

By A Representative   Women engaged in manual scavenging gathered in the national capital to counter the Union government’s official stance in Parliament that the practice has been eradicated in India.

By Aditya Sharma*  Dr P K Gupta's recent article ( The 'Dr' debate masks a larger crisis in allied-health education , Counterview , 1 August 2026)  on the use of the "Dr" prefix by physiotherapists reads, on its surface, as a balanced take on a genuinely difficult question. But a closer look shows that it revives a set of arguments that were put before Parliament during the drafting of the National Commission for Allied and Healthcare Professions Act, 2021 (NCAHP Act) — and that Parliament's own Standing Committee considered and rejected. This response draws on the Committee's 117th Report and the text of the Act itself to lay out why.

By Ram Puniyani*  The Sarsanghchalak (Chief) of the RSS, Mohan Bhagwat, has undertaken a tour of three countries abroad. The first stop was the United States, where, apart from a few other engagements, his major event was to address a gathering at Madison Square Garden in New York. It was expected that over 5,000 people would attend. The stated objective of the visit was to dispel misconceptions about the RSS, engage in dialogue, and spread a message of universal oneness.

By A Representative   A group of students and youth activists in Ahmedabad has issued a set of demands to the authorities after alleging that a peaceful reading session was violently disrupted by members of the Bajrang Dal in broad daylight on August 27, with police allegedly standing by and later diluting the First Information Report to protect the accused. 

By A Representative   Dr Shujaat Ali Quadri , Convener of the Muslim Youth Organisation (MYO), has criticised reported remarks by Kanthapuram Aboobacker Musliyar in which Muslim women were compared to gold jewellery that should be kept safely locked in a box to preserve its shine and value. He also objected to the reported warning that women entering the public sphere could lead to “great destruction.”

By Osman Sher*  The recent fatwa issued by Mufti Kanthapuram A.P. Aboobacker Musliyar , General Secretary of the Samastha Kerala Jam’iyyathul Ulama —calling for women to be confined to their homes and preserved like ornaments in a box—is deeply troubling. Islam does not treat women as objects. It grants them the right to inherit and own property, to enter marriage only with their consent, and to uphold modesty in appearance and behavior, just as men are required to do.

By Harsh Thakor*  Senior Maoist leader Motibai, widely known as Radhakka, died at the age of 65 on Monday evening, August 31, 2026, while undergoing treatment at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) hospital in Adilabad, Telangana. She had reportedly been suffering from a prolonged illness and had undergone regular dialysis in recent months. Her death was attributed to kidney failure.