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Eid is a day of festivities for Muslims across the world. This Eid was a day of mourning for most of Kashmiris. Today they lost two sons of the soil. Death toll now is 82. 

NASA data released Monday shows not only that last month was the hottest August since record-keeping started in 1880, but that it tied with July for the warmest month in the last 136 years.

So what? Come to Bangalore, India where  a water war is raging. Scores of vehicles and properties damaged, one person shot dead by security forces. A failed monsoon raised tension between neighbouring states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Cauvery river is dying. Vijay Kundaji asks  "even if the Gods are kind and somehow the monsoon switches back on, then in the days and years ahead? Where will those highly contested “cusecs” come from? Is some smart technologist going to invent them in a glass and concrete building with VC money?"

Sarah van Gelder interviews Dallas Goldtooth one of the organisers of Standing Rock resistance movement

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Eid, A Day Of Mourning For Kashmir As Two More Youth Killed: Death Toll 82

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/13/eid-a-day-of-mourning-for-kashmir-as-two-more-youth-killed-death-toll-82/


The festival of Eid turned out to be a day of mourning for many Kashmiris as curfew was clamped across the Kashmir valley. Two youth were killed in clashes and scores injured. Police said as many as 44 stone pelting incidents were reported across the valley.





August Was Another Hottest Month For The Record Books
by Deirdre Fulton 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/13/august-was-another-hottest-month-for-the-record-books/

Another month, another temperature record shattered. NASA data released Monday shows not only that last month was the hottest August since record-keeping started in 1880, but that it tied with July for the warmest month in the last 136 years.





Water Wars Come To Bangalore (And Soon, The World)
by Vijay Kundaji 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/13/water-wars-come-to-bangalore-and-soon-the-world/

So what becomes of the Cauvery now? And even if the Gods are kind and somehow the monsoon switches back on, then in the days and years ahead? Where will those highly contested “cusecs” come from? Is some smart technologist going to invent them in a glass and concrete building with VC money?





The Big Difference At Standing Rock Is Native Leadership All Around
by Sarah van Gelder 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/13/the-big-difference-at-standing-rock-is-native-leadership-all-around/

I came to Standing Rock to cover the arrival of Northwest tribal canoes and stayed for the rulings Friday on whether construction of the pipeline can continue. I spoke to Dallas Goldtooth, a veteran of the Keystone XL movement, on a hill overlooking the camp. Goldtooth (Mdewakanton Dakota and Dińe) is the Keep It In The Ground campaign organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network





Israel’s Bogus Civil War
by Jonathan Cook 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/13/israels-bogus-civil-war/

Is Israel on the verge of civil war, as a growing number of Israeli commentators suggest, with its Jewish population deeply riven over the future of the occupation?





A Space Shared Is A Space Doubled
by Sabine Lutz 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/13/a-space-shared-is-a-space-doubled/

Streets and plazas are the spaces of the public, the spaces where people encounter each other. Such encounters can be fleeting or intense, but they always imply the possibility of lingering. Yet lingering is difficult if not impossible if our roads are designed to serve the needs of traffic practically to the exclusion of everything else. The concept of Shared Space was developed to contrast any singular use of a space with a more flexible concept of space open to diverse uses. The design of a street should not predetermine just one particular use, but be open and adaptable for many uses.





Lakshman Rekha: A Sensitive Film On Public Discourses On Sexual Assault
by Shraddha Chickerur 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/13/lakshmanrekha-a-sensitive-film-on-public-discourses-on-sexual-assault/

Lakshman Rekha, a film by Geetika Tondon looks at how conversations in the media are played out in cases of sexual assault in India. This twenty minute short premiered in July 2016 at the inaugural session of the Film Club, Centre for Women’s Studies, University of Hyderabad, in the presence of the film maker.  





For Age Is Opportunity No Less Than Youth Itself…
by Shobha Shukla 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/13/for-age-is-opportunity-no-less-than-youth-itself/

Currently there are 1,000  Intergenerational Self-Help Clubs  with 55,000 members, operating across 17 provinces of Vietnam. Recently Vietnam government has officially approved the plan to replicate the ISHC model and have 3,200 additional ISHCs in 65 provinces.




Calling For An Honest Conversation Between Left And Dalit Bahujan Groups
by Rohith Jyothish 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/13/calling-for-an-honest-conversation-between-left-and-dalit-bahujan-groups/

If an effective counter to the Sangh forces in the name of social justice has to be forged as of this political now (which can easily change), it has to start from where the Dalit Bahujan groups have drawn the line. If there is a call for a political unity between the Left and Dalit Bahujan groups, the latter are well within their rights to stay away given the constant denial of agency that they have suffered. Having said that, it is also important for them to engage with the Left if Brahminism has to be countered.