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International Outrage Over State Violence In UoH
By Concerned World Citizens

http://www.countercurrents.org/ccw270316.htm

Over 300 academicians, activists, artists and writers condemn the state violence and unlawful detention of faculty and student protesters of the University of Hyderabad


Uday Bhanu Said "They Kicked Me On My Testicles"
By P Victor Vijay Kumar

http://www.countercurrents.org/pvkumar270316.htm

Uday Bhanu, the Dalit scholar from University of Hyderabad, who was brutally beaten up by the police for the crime of preparing food for his fellow students during the siege of the university


Why And What Happened In University of Hyderabad 
By Omkar Nadh

http://www.countercurrents.org/nadh270316.htm

It was true that the situation was tense but if we were to ask for an answer ‘who was responsible for creating such a situation’? It was undoubtedly Prof.Apparao. Why was he so desperate to occupy the chair? What prevented him from waiting till the report of judicial committee is out? Why did he mobilise students ‘inside his guest house’? Why Executive Committee and Deans meeting was planned in a non-administrative place and why were selected group of students present where the meeting was taking place? Did the VC at least bother to talk to the democratically elected Students’ Union of the University before he wanted to resume the office? What is his respect for the democratic institutions of the University and what moral right does he have to occupy the chair? 
Mr.Apparao had no answers to these questions; instead the only answer he could give was to subject students demanding Justice for Rohit Vemula to brutal police repression


Will You Yell Back At History You Meant To Do Better? It Wasn’t Just You? 
By Suprabha Seshan

http://www.countercurrents.org/seshan270316.htm

I’m panicking that no matter the perspective, the real world, which includes our lungs, hearts and kidneys, and the lungs, hearts and kidneys of our children and our children’s children, and the cells, tissues and organs of every life form, as well as the living earth, is being poisoned to death, and that too many of us are in denial. Too many of us refuse the connection between land, water, air, plants, animals, climate and our own viability. I’m panicking that the worldwide amphibian die-off, the worldwide fish die-off, the worldwide bee die-off, the vulture die-off, and the big mammal die-off, will soon be followed by the worldwide human die-off


Of Chipko And Other Fables 
By Sarosh Ali

http://www.countercurrents.org/ali270316.htm

The story of the receding Gaumukh Glacier, the source of the Ganges, is known as a mystery to all. But an association with the broader environmental crisis, like also the lack of snow and rain this year, seems farfetched to most of us. Only people well rooted in nature can hear its sigh. So it is incumbent to look at things from the perspective of these people. It was only a few decades ago that they rose to push the environmental onslaught of deforestation back through a collective movement. In order to gauge the present realities, it is important to understand the legacy of struggles like Chipko and many others and life in the hills in general


Russia And America, One Hundred Years Face To Face 
By Gaither Stewart

http://www.countercurrents.org/stewart270316.htm

Average citizens of the West, especially of the USA, know little and understand less of Russia’s history. To the great majority of Westerners, Russia is a mysterious and forbidding land somewhere in the East which poses a threat to the world which it aims at dominating. Therefore, I have summarized here some aspects of that long history in order to amplify and elucidate Russia’s possible role in the “difficult period of international relations”, of which Lavrov speaks so clearly and rationally