Countercurrents.org
{{Short description|India-based news and analysis website}}
{{For|the white nationalist publication|Counter-Currents}}
{{use dmy dates|date=February 2019}}
{{Primary sources|date=December 2022}}
{{Infobox website
| name = Countercurrents.org
| logo = Countercurrents_logo.png
| url = {{url|https://countercurrents.org}}
| commercial = Noncommercial
| type = News, analysis and opinions
| language = English
| owner = Binu Mathew
| editor = Binu Mathew
| launch_date = 2002
| logocaption =
| current_status = Active
}}
Countercurrents.org is an India-based news, views and analysis website. It describes itself as non-partisan and taking "the Side of the People!"[https://countercurrents.org/about "About"]. Countercurrents.org. Retrieved 8 February 2020. Countercurrents.org publishes news stories, editorials, and opinion pieces of authors from around the world. It has an international audience.
History
Countercurrents.org was founded by journalist Binu Mathew,{{cite web|url=https://www.forwardpress.in/2019/02/counter-currents-binu-mathew/|title='काउंटर करेंट्स' आर्थिक संकट में, बुद्धिजीवियों और पाठकों में चिंता|first=Pramod Kaunswal प्रमोद|last=कौंसवाल|date=6 February 2019|website=फॉरवर्ड प्रेस}}{{cite web|url=https://www.21cir.com/2018/12/binu-mathew-editor-of-countercurrents-org-interviews-andre-vltchek/|title=Binu Mathew, Editor of Countercurrents.org interviews Andre Vltchek – The 21st Century|last=Andre Vltchek|publisher=}} and published its first article on 27 March 2002.{{Cite web|title=In conversation with Binu Mathew - YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfwTf6ItKKw&t=21s|access-date=2020-08-21|website=www.youtube.com}} During the first 16 years of its existence, Countercurrents.org published over 50,000 articles, fact-finding reports, research papers and news items on major social issues around the world.{{fact|date=May 2020}} Countercurrents.org was awarded the 2018 Solidarity Media award by Solidarity Youth Movement in Kerala.{{cite web|url=https://countercurrents.org/2018/10/27/countercurrents-org-receives-human-rights-award/|title=Countercurrents.org Receives Human Rights Award|date=27 October 2018|publisher=Countercurrent.org}}{{cite web |date=27 October 2018 |title=Countercurrents.org Receives Human Rights Award |url=https://sikhsiyasat.net/2018/10/27/countercurrents-org-receives-human-rights-award/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209180241/https://sikhsiyasat.net/2018/10/27/countercurrents-org-receives-human-rights-award/ |archive-date=9 February 2019 |access-date=7 February 2019 |publisher=Sikh Siyasat News}}{{cite web|url=http://www.kashmirtimes.com/newsdet.aspx?q=84251|title=Counter Currents awarded|newspaper=Kashmir Times|date=29 October 2018|access-date=20 May 2020}}
Book and video production
Countercurrents has published three books in 2019. These are The Political Economy of Beef Ban,{{cite web|url=https://peoplesbookshop.com/product/political-economy-beef-ban/|title=The Political Economy of Beef Ban|publisher=}} #MeToo – A Blow to Patriarchy{{cite web|url=https://peoplesbookshop.com/product/metoo-a-blow-to-patriarchy/|title=#MeToo A Blow to Patriarchy - countercurrents.org|publisher=}} and Connecting the Dots: An Anthology.{{cite web|url=https://peoplesbookshop.com/product/countercurrents-connecting-dots-anthology/|title=Countercurrents Connecting the Dots An Anthology|publisher=}}
Countercurrents coproduced K. P. Sasi's documentary Voices from the Ruins: Kandhamal in Search of Justice on the pogrom against Christians in the Kandhamal district of Odisha.{{cite web|url=https://sabrangindia.in/article/%E2%80%98voices-ruins-kandhamal%E2%80%99-and-why-i-cried-after-watching-film|title='Voices From The Ruins Of Kandhamal' And Why I Cried After Watching The Film|date=23 July 2016|website=SabrangIndia}}{{cite web|url=https://countercurrents.org/2016/07/21/voices-from-the-ruins-of-kandhamal-and-why-i-cried-after-watching-the-film/|title='Voices From The Ruins Of Kandhamal' And Why I Cried After Watching The Film|date=21 July 2016|publisher=}}{{Citation|title=Voices From the Ruins – Kandhamal In Search of Justice {{!}} Dir: K.P. Sasi|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9T5fmc05to|language=en|access-date=2021-11-09}}{{Failed verification|date=May 2020}}
References
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General references
- Towards A Counter Moveme [https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0012531/ Towards A Counter Movement!]
- CounterCurrents.Org (India) : Who Benefits From Nuclear Power Plants In India ? [https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/CounterCurrents-Org-India-Who.html CounterCurrents.Org (India) : Who Benefits From Nuclear Power Plants In India ?]
External links
- [https://countercurrents.org/ Official website]
- Voices From the Ruins – Kandhamal In Search of Justice | Dir: K.P. Sasi [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9T5fmc05to Voices From the Ruins – Kandhamal In Search of Justice | Dir: K.P. Sasi]