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Ayush RTI Story Journalist Released, Told To Report Back In The Morning
By The Milli Gazette Online

http://www.countercurrents.org/mg160316.htm

Kotla Mubarakpur police station, where journalist Pushp Sharma was being interrogated after he was picked up by a police force from his home in Lajpat Nagar at 6:30 pm this evening, allowed him to go home at 10:30 pm, with the instruction that he must report at the police station tomorrow at 10 am with all the papers relevant to his story about the AYUSH ministry


Did Kanhaiya Kumar Make This Statement? The Damage Is Already Done! 
By Mithilesh Kumar

http://www.countercurrents.org/mkumar160316.htm

Yesterday, there was a protest march to demand the release of Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya and other demands. Incidentally, both students have now been again sent to 14 days judicial custody. The JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar who faces rustication gave the list of demands and this is how it was quoted on the website of NDTV: "We want the resignation of Smriti Irani, dropping of sedition charges, the release of two students from jail, no interferences in the university's autonomy and a law against caste politics in colleges," Mr Kumar told NDTV. This is a statement which has to be taken very seriously


Historic Opportunity To Strengthen Democratic Bahujan Left Forces 
By VidyaBhushan Rawat

http://www.countercurrents.org/rawat160316.htm

Now, Kanhaiyya want a law against ‘caste politics’ which is very dangerous. One does not know what he meant but if caste politics is just what Dalit Bahujans are doing then Kanhaiyya is returning to the politics of rhetoric suited to brahmanical interests and must be countered. The new Bahujan left must build a collaborative leadership of diverse sections of society and refuse to glorify one individual as messiah, which is nothing but dictatorial attitude. Kanhaiyya Kumar and others have been wronged by Indian state and must be supported but it does not mean we accept their political philosophy or utterings as gospel truth


Russia’s Military Aims Achieved, Putin Switches To Diplomacy 
By Paul Craig Roberts

http://www.countercurrents.org/pcr160316.htm

Having stripped the Islamic State of offensive capability and liberated Syria from the Washington-supported terrorists, Putin has now shifted to diplomacy. If peace fails in Syria, the failure cannot be blamed on Russia


The Global Refugee Crisis: Humanity's Last Call 
For A Culture Of Sharing And Cooperation
By Rajesh Makwana

http://www.countercurrents.org/makwana160316.htm

The real crisis is not the influx of refugees to Europe per se but a toxic combination of destabilising foreign policy agendas, economic austerity and the rise of right-wing nationalism, which is likely to push the world further into social and political chaos in the months ahead


How Resilient Is The Nuclear Taboo Today? 
By Rizwana Abbasi

http://www.countercurrents.org/abbasi160316.htm

A new taboo against proliferation will help secure the existing taboo against use and would pave the way to establish the ultimate and decisive step of a taboo against the possession of nuclear weapons


Budget 2016-17: As If Children Matter 
By Joseph Anthony Gathia

http://www.countercurrents.org/gathia160316.htm

Earlier the Economic Survey 2015-16 and now the Budget 2016-17 gave impression that deprived sections of our country are going to get fair treatment but a careful analysis shows that there is crafty shift in resource mobilisation and the onus of the development funding has been shifted to the state governments , especially for health, nutrition, and education, which is likely to impact children who are 36.6 per cent of India’s total population . Let us examine two important sectors: health and education in relation to the Economic Survey 2015-16 and the Budget 2016-17


Stop The Aggressive Villification Against Nivedita Menon 
By Shubhda Chaudhary

http://www.countercurrents.org/chaudhary160316.htm

The recent target of burgeoning epileptic paroxysm of ABVP has been JNU’s Professor Nivedita Menon who took a teach-in lecture titled ‘Nation, as a daily plebiscite’. Already defamed for fabricating video footages, the intellect-less hedonistic agenda of ABVP has resurfaced again to defame the professor, branding her as ‘anti-national’ and starting a vitriolic and obnoxious social media troll again her ‘Right to Dissent’ and ‘Freedom of Speech and Expression’. Menon, whose lecture in Hindi, explained how one nationality cannot curb the multiple national aspirations of the people is being victimized for her views on Kashmir, Manipur, Chattisgarh and other sensitive political boundaries


Solidarity Letter From Indian Workers’ Association Great Britain 
Press Release

http://www.countercurrents.org/pr160316.htm

Indian Workers’ Association, Great Britain continues to stand firmly with Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and strongly condemns the attempts by the Indian state and the Hindutva forces to stifle the voices of democratic dissent, disagreement and discourse in the campuses. We congratulate the students and the faculty for standing unitedly and firmly at a time when assaults on democratic rights is taking place across India on various sections of the people