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Countercurrents.org
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OwnerBinu Mathew
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URL countercurrents.org
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Launched2002
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Countercurrents.org is an India-based news, views and analysis website. It describes itself as non-partisan and taking "the Side of the People!" [1] Countercurrents.org publishes news stories, editorials, and opinion pieces of authors from around the world. It has an international audience.

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History

Countercurrents.org was founded by journalist Binu Mathew, [2] [3] and published its first article on 27 March 2002. [4] 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.[ citation needed ] Countercurrents.org was awarded the 2018 Solidarity Media award by Solidarity Youth Movement in Kerala. [5] [6] [7]

Book and video production

Countercurrents has published three books in 2019. These are The Political Economy of Beef Ban, [8] #MeToo – A Blow to Patriarchy [9] and Connecting the Dots: An Anthology. [10]

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. [11] [12] [13] [ failed verification ]

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  2. कौंसवाल, Pramod Kaunswal प्रमोद (6 February 2019). "'काउंटर करेंट्स' आर्थिक संकट में, बुद्धिजीवियों और पाठकों में चिंता". फॉरवर्ड प्रेस.
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  8. "The Political Economy of Beef Ban".
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  10. "Countercurrents Connecting the Dots An Anthology".
  11. "'Voices From The Ruins Of Kandhamal' And Why I Cried After Watching The Film". SabrangIndia. 23 July 2016.
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