Counterview

By A Representative   A coalition of civil liberties, human rights, student, labour organisations,  Campaign Against State Repression (CASR), has condemned the arrest of Dr. Randall Sequeira, a doctor providing healthcare in Odisha’s Kalahandi and Rayagada districts, and Laxman Nayak, an activist associated with the Maa Mati Mali Surakhya Manch, and demanded their immediate release.

By A Representative   Well-known Jesuit human rights, justice and peace activist, writer and trainer Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ has been elected National Convener of the Forum of Religious for Justice and Peace (FORUM). The election took place during the Forum's General Body Meeting at Ishvani Kendra, Pune, on 12 October 2026, at the conclusion of its XIX National Convention.

By Atanu Roy*  From attacks on progressive bookstalls to the erosion of public safety, Bengal must confront the danger of turning a people's festival into an arena of ideological conflict. West Bengal is witnessing a disturbing confrontation over the meaning of its public culture. The reported attacks on Left bookstalls during Durga Puja, the pressure on spaces associated with liberal and progressive thought, and the increasingly visible attempt to frame Bengal's cultural identity through a narrow religious-political lens raise questions that go far beyond party politics. They concern the freedom to think, the right to dissent and the character of a society that has long prided itself on its intellectual traditions.

By Bhabani Shankar Nayak*  The worldwide horrors of war, conflict, injustice, exploitation, marginalisation, inequality and everyday violence and brutality on a mass scale are designed to numb people, eroding their civilised, humane self-confidence and their trust in each other. The aim of these manufactured crises and shocks is to shape a society in which individuals become ever lonelier and more vulnerable — in the name of personal space and individual freedom.

By N.S. Venkataraman*  Humans indulge in a rat race their entire life, even though the inevitable event of death nullifies all lifetime achievements and possessions. Such behaviour appears to be almost similar all over the world. Historical human behaviour over the last several centuries clearly proves this.

By Harsh Thakor*  Elaine Mokhtefi, who has died at the age of 98 in a hospital in Manhattan, New York City, on September 11, was an American anti-colonial activist who devoted her life to the Algerian liberation struggle and whose memoir Algiers, Third World Capital remains one of the most vivid first-hand accounts of post-independence Algeria as the revolutionary capital of the world.

​By Vikas Gupta  ​India's official employment data is released late, revised frequently, and structured in ways that make a generational crisis look manageable. This is not a conspiracy theory; it is a systematic pattern plain to anyone who has spent serious time with the numbers.

By Mohd. Ziyaullah Khan  Rahul Gandhi has made electoral integrity a central part of his battle against the BJP. But as protests against the Election Commission gather momentum, he faces a challenge that extends beyond Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the ruling party. Can the Congress unite India’s opposition forces if it struggles to accommodate dissenting voices outside its own political leadership?

By Shankar Sharma*  India has achieved historic milestones in power sector capacity addition over the past decade. Yet, beneath the surface of these record numbers, an unprecedented confluence of structural demand shifts and climate-induced supply volatility is testing the absolute limits of our national grid.