Counterview

By Vidya Bhushan Rawat*  Delhi is witnessing numerous protests these days. While these demonstrations are vital for the health of our democracy, there have been attempts to stop or criminalize them. It has long been the strategy of the power elite to intimidate people with a massive security umbrella, yet citizens continue to defy them to register their presence. Among all these protests, the most 'innovative' seems to be the Delhi University girls' protest against 'Mardism'.

By A Representative   The Free Sanjiv Bhatt Cycle Yatra , a journey demanding the release of former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt and other political prisoners in India, reached the historic village of Ghasera in Mewat , Haryana, on September 4 morning, according to a media communique issued by the Countercurrents Collective in a well-known civil rights advocacy site.

By   Rajesh Sarthi*   Students at Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya in Wardha have accused the university administration of reneging on assurances made during recent negotiations, as FIRs against six protesting students and campus entry restrictions remain firmly in place. The controversy follows a nationwide Chalo Hindi Vishwavidyalaya, Wardha call on September 28, which drew representatives from student organizations, political parties, and socio-political groups across the country to support a movement that has been ongoing since July 8. 

By A Representative   A West Bengal-based human rights organisation, Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha, has sought urgent intervention over the alleged arrest and unexplained disappearance of Abdul Barek, a resident of Gopalpur, Bailyamor Panupara, in North Dinajpur, West Bengal.

By Bhabani Shankar Nayak*  Southend-on-Sea, commonly known as Southend, is a historic and beautiful seaside town in southeast Essex, England, just 40 miles east of London. Its sun, sea, children's amusement park, theatres, Southend Pier—the longest pleasure pier in the world—and seven miles of sandy beaches attract hedonistic Londoners, holidaymakers, weekend day-trippers and families on weekend getaways to this historic seaside town.

By Suresh Deman  Born in a one-room cabin in the Tennessee mountains, Dolly Parton turned poverty into poetry, heartbreak into song, and her father's inability to read into a programme that has given more than 300 million books to children. Her remarkable journey suggests that a life is measured not only by how far one travels, but by what one sends back *** Dolly Parton was born into poverty, but never into a poverty of imagination. She entered the world on 19 January 1946 in the mountains of East Tennessee, the fourth of twelve children. The Parton family had little money and few of the comforts that much of America would eventually take for granted. Her father, Robert Lee Parton, farmed, built and laboured wherever work could be found. Her mother, Avie Lee, possessed a different kind of wealth. She filled the crowded home with Appalachian songs, stories, faith and the conviction that hardship need not extinguish beauty. Dolly's childhood poverty was not something later inven...

By Miguel Enrique Stédile   Just before the first round of Brazil's presidential elections, the U.S. embassy and consulates in the country remained closed, following a generic order from the State Department regarding ‘security concerns.’ Elections in Brazil proceed peacefully; there are no civil conflicts or military threats, no records of political violence above normal levels, nor any threats to American citizens or diplomatic structures. But the decision, followed solely and inexplicably by the Australian embassy, is part of a set of actions by Washington to attempt to interfere in the Brazilian elections.

By Syed Ali Mujtaba*   The Ministry of Home Affairs’ resolution on the High-Level Committee on Demographic Changes (HLCDC), issued on May 26, 2026, to scientifically study abnormal population shifts and illegal immigration across India is highly disturbing. It serves the Hindutva agenda and poses a threat to the country.

By Dr. A.V. Yadappanavar*  The floods that battered Upper Assam during the July 2026 monsoon crisis were not simply a story of the Brahmaputra rising after days of rain on the plains. In several of the worst-hit areas, the disaster began much farther uphill, in the steep terrain of neighbouring Nagaland, where intense rainfall sent enormous volumes of water rushing rapidly downhill and into rivers that flow across the state boundary.