Counterview

By A Representative   A new satellite-based study has found that the notorious November smog choking Delhi cannot be blamed on any single source, with most of the pollution originating from outside the city and trapped by stagnant winter weather.

By A Representative   As COP31 places zero waste at the centre of its climate action agenda, the newly announced Global Zero Waste Districts initiative offers an important direction for how cities should address their waste crisis: prevent waste at source, promote reuse and repair, compost organic waste, reduce dependence on plastics, and recognise the contributions of waste pickers. Importantly, WTE incineration is not recognised as an eligible intervention under the initiative and will not receive funding.

By A Representative   The All-India Feminist Alliance (ALIFA) has issued a strong condemnation of the escalating crisis at the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) in Kolkata, describing the campus as being under a "siege-like situation" for over 40 days. In a statement released today, the alliance demanded the immediate removal of the Vice-Chancellor, the rollback of academic closure orders, and a fair, independent inquiry into the violence that erupted on campus in late September.

By Sandeep Pandey, Ayush Bajpai, Bemisal Hasani  The Allahabad High Court's bench comprising Justices Siddharth and Vinai K. Dwivedi has ruled that "politicians bear a special duty to their constituents and that failure to secure stay of conviction may lead to loss of an opportunity to contest an election." It also said, "Keeping in view the right to livelihood of a common man which is not less important than the right to contest election by a politician, conviction and sentence of appellant deserves to be stayed…" The convict Nandlal Rai has been sentenced to life term for the murder of Pramod Kumar Nigam, an activist who worked for the rights of street vendors, in Sigra area of Varanasi in 2017. In his petition for bail and stay on his conviction Nandlal Rai had stated that he wished to contest the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly election either as a ruling party candidate or an independent. He was lucky to get relief from the Court. The co-convict...

By A Representative   In a profound tribute, the human rights network, National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM), has said a main contribution of pioneering social activist, educationist, and Barefoot College founder Sanjit ‘Bunker’ Roy was to  question the very foundations of ‘mainstream development’ thinking. Roy  passed away on November 10, 2026, at the age of 81 in  Tilonia, Rajasthan.

By Bharat Dogra  With the passing of Bunker Roy, rural India has lost a great presence of original thinking and beautiful creativity. He breathed his last on November 10. He was 81. Over six decades he made immense and durable contributions to rural development, institution building and protection of the environment. He leaves behind his wife Aruna Roy, an equally great development and social activist, and a very large family of members and well-wishers of the Barefoot College and numerous other institutions he helped create or inspired. Both Bunker Roy and the Barefoot College have been highly regarded nationally and internationally for their original thinking and beautiful creativity. He received the Padma Shri, the Jamnalal Bajaj Award, the Tytler Prize of Environment Protection, the Blue Planet Award and other honours.

Counterview News   A sweeping new global report has laid bare how India’s digital landscape has become a toxic breeding ground where male supremacism converges with Hindu nationalist ideologies , fueling severe, algorithmically amplified violence against women—particularly those from minority communities. 

By Dr. Bhimi Daimari   Every morning, as the mist lifts over the emerald hills of Assam, thousands of women bend over tea bushes, their fingers moving in a blur to pluck the "two leaves and a bud." They produce more than half of India’s tea, a beverage savored in drawing rooms across the globe. Yet, in the cramped, damp labor lines where these women return at dusk, a quiet tragedy continues to unfold. 

By Vidya Bhushan Rawat*  Sonia Gandhi's memoir is out, and the publisher is making a fortune. It will soon be a bestseller in India. Loyalists, journalists and opponents are all buying it, and many commentators now have material for a year's worth of podcasts. They will either chant its contents as gospel truth or dismiss them as lies; there is no middle ground in today's discourse. Liberals will assume everything she wrote is correct without examining the other side, while Sangh supporters are determined to exploit its contradictions and a few inaccuracies in dates and years.