Kandhamal: A Shame To Secular Polity Of India

By Binu Mathew

Courtesy: Countercurrents.org | 29 August, 2015

Kandhamal is described as the Kashmir of Odisha. It is one of the most beautiful places in India I ever visited. With rolling hills and forests interspersed with lush green paddy fields, flowing rivulets and ponds and a cool breeze blowing Kandhamal is a beholders delight. I may call it a paradise on earth! Beneath all this beauty there is turbulence, fear and a paralysing anxiety that grip the people living in this so called ‘paradise’. For the Christian minorities who belong mostly to Adivasi and Dalit communities Kandhamal is a living hell.

`No More Kandhamals!’ Kerala Expresses Solidarity!

By Binu Mathew & K.P. Sasi

Courtesy: countercurrents.org | 27 August, 2015

On August 25, 2008 the biggest communal violence after Gujarat took place in Kandhamal in Odisha. Over 350 churches and worship places which belonged to the Adivasi Christians and Dalit Christians were destroyed, around 6,500 houses were destroyed, over 90 people were killed, over 40 women were subjected to rape, molestation and humiliation and several educational, social service and health institutions were destroyed and looted. More than 56,000 people have been displaced. Several cases of forced conversion to Hinduism by the Sangh Parivar have been reported. This organised communal attack which was the biggest on the history of Christian community during the last three centuries, also spread to different parts of Odisha and other states as well. It is a matter of shame that the relief and compensation provided by the Government for the victims and survivors of Kandhamal have been minimal.

After the Great Financial Crisis and the Great Recession, What Next?

Interview with John Bellamy Foster by Farooque Chowdhury

*The interview is re-published here in view of the recent world stock market incidents. The interview was published in MRZine on January 28, 2010 upon completion on January 26, 2010. Other e-news / journal / blogs also carried it.

Courtesy: MRZine

Fidel’s fraternal meeting with Maduro and Evo (Photos)

Courtesy: Granma | 13 August, 2015

The historic leader of the Cuban Revolution held a fraternal meeting on August 13, with Presidents Nicolás Maduro and Evo Morales.

Reality and dreams

By Fidel Castro Ruz

Courtesy: Granma

The leader of the Cuban Revolution insists that we will never stop struggling for peace and the well-being of all human beings, for every inhabitant on the planet regardless of skin color or national origin.