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I Live In A Nation That's More Father (Land) Than Mother (Land).. So Where's Bharat Mata? 
By Surabhi Singh

http://www.countercurrents.org/surabhi170316.htm

I live in a nation that is much less a mother (land) and more of a father (land). A German feminist scholar has correctly said that women are the last colony. Their bodies, sexuality, reproductive capacity, labour capacity are still colonised. So, if I may ask, where do I find my position as a daughter or mother of the nation? In fact, where do I begin to question this colonial master and a national father? Unless I get the answer I refuse to say “Bharat Mata ki Jai.”


The Mass Rape Of The Bosnian Women Was Genocide! 
By Professor Francis A. Boyle

http://www.countercurrents.org/boyle170316.htm

Even the Nazis during World War II did not engage in the mass and systematic rape of women as a technique of warfare, though the Japanese came very close to it against Chinese women during the Second World War. Bosnia was appalling! It seemed to me that what was going on there was not just rape – which in times of war is a war crime -- but that what was going on there was genocide. Outright genocide! So I decided to argue that the mass rape of the Bosnian women was genocide to the World Court


On Burning Ground: The Human Cost Of India’s Push to Produce More Coal 
By Fred Pearce

http://www.countercurrents.org/pearce170316.htm

Many fear the climatic consequences of India’s drive for coal-powered growth. Other major coal mining nations like the United States and China are cutting back on burning the dirtiest of the fossil fuels. But India, the world’s third largest coal producer and fourth largest greenhouse-gas emitter, stood out as a climate bad guy at the United Nations’ climate talks in Paris in December. It has set itself on an energy growth path that will increase emissions by an estimated 60 percent by 2030

Edward W. Said On Orientalism 
By Gaither Stewart

http://www.countercurrents.org/stewart170316.htm

Edward Said wrote a new preface for the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of his classic book, ORIENTALISM, originally published in the USA by Random House in 1978. In the following pages I have quoted some of the author’s major thoughts and added my own ideas about Said’s preface written in 2003 for the last Vintage Books edition of his magnificent work


Why BDS Cannot Lose: A Moral Threshold To Combat Racism In Israel 
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud170316.htm

A foray of condemnations of the boycott of Israel seems to have fallen on deaf ears. Calls from Western governments, originating from the UK, the US, Canada and others, to criminalize the boycott of Israel have hardly slowed down the momentum of the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS). On the contrary, it has accelerated


Tribal Rights, Mining And Gram Sabha: 
Tribals Have Power To Reject Vedanta Bauxite Mining
By Zubair Nazeer & Rahul Chimurkar

http://www.countercurrents.org/chimurkar170316.htm

The recent attack on tribal rights is in the form of a new interlocutory application filed by the Odisha government before the apex court on 25th February, 2016. The application has been moved by the state run miner OMC (Odisha Mining Corporation) to challenge the landmark Vedanta bauxite mine judgement of the Supreme Court. The application claims that Forest Rights Act and its rules do not require any consent from the Gram Sabha for use of forestlands if government decides that the rights of people have been settled. The OMC has made this claim on the basis of several arguments


There Is No Honour In Killing 
By Maanvender Singh

http://www.countercurrents.org/singh170316.htm

On 13 March, 2016, a similar crime was committed in Tirupur, Tamil Nadu, where a young couple was attacked publicly by group of hired men; resulting in the death of 22 year old V. Shankar and causing serious head injuries to his wife Kausalya. This brutal action was carried out on the direction of Shankar’s father-in law who was unhappy with the marriage, as Shankar was a dalit and the family belonged to a much forward Thevar community. The fact finding team that visited the crime scene, pointed out that the murder was pre- planned and Shankar was under the constant threat from his in -laws, highlighting to yet another case of honor killing


Rains Become A Nightmare! 
By Mohammad Ashraf

http://www.countercurrents.org/ashraf170316.htm

Once welcome as a boon from the Gods, the rains these days give nightmares to the people!