Counterview

By A Representative   Senior p ower and climate policy analyst Shankar Sharma has urged the Ministry of Power and other senior policymakers to undertake an urgent review of India’s power-sector priorities, citing rising renewable-energy curtailment, transmission bottlenecks, delays in battery storage projects and the growing financial and ecological costs of conventional power infrastructure.

By Mohd. Ziyaullah Khan   The recent statement by Asaduddin Owaisi that “Muslims do not need Gandhi and Nehru” has predictably sparked outrage, with critics swiftly linking it to Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s separatist ideology. But is this interpretation fair when the larger context of his remarks is ignored? More importantly, the controversy obscures a more fundamental question: why do many self-proclaimed secular voices continue to overlook Muslim freedom fighters such as Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Maulana Mahmud Hasan, and Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar? 

By Syed Ali Mujtaba  Mohammad Adeeb, a former member of Parliament and now chairman of Indian Muslims for Civil Rights (IMCR), has rejected the allegation that Indian Muslims are not participating in the ongoing agitation led by the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) in Delhi. In a candid interview, he discussed at length Muslim particip ation in the protests in Delhi. He said Prakash Raj, Yogendra Yadav, and a number of other prominent figures are sitting in the IMCR office in Nizamuddin, strategizing the protest. IMCR is a non-political, non-religious, non-governmental organization (NGO) based in New Delhi.

By Bharat Dogra  Youth movements are surging in several countries. What follows is an outline of an alternative path for these movements—one that could yield more durable results in securing a safer, better, happier, and more creative future for young people and children.

By N.S. Venkataraman*  Over the past four years, youth-led protest movements have brought down governments in Sri Lanka (2022), Bangladesh (2024) and Nepal (2025). In all three countries the protests began peacefully and were issue-based, but escalated after government heavy-handedness. Unrest is now visible in France as well, and governments elsewhere, India included, are weighing how to respond to street protests of their own. The question is how democracies should handle demonstrations that turn violent. 

By Harsh Thakor   Ultra-endurance swimmer Catherine Breed has set a new benchmark in open-water endurance swimming by becoming the first person to swim California’s entire 900-mile (1,448 km) coastline. Breed completed the journey from Oregon to Mexico in 111 days—less than four months—according to organizers of the Swim California expedition.

By Rajiv Shah  A new report published by the international research and advocacy organization GRAIN has warned that the global resurgence of biofuels is triggering a dangerous dynamic of “more fuel, less food, more land grabs.” Driven by intersecting energy security concerns, geopolitical tensions, and aggressive decarbonization mandates, the expanding agrofuel industry is increasingly pitting corporate energy interests against global food security and indigenous land rights. 

By Amrita Basu*  Five months after its founding , India’s Cockroach Janta Party, known as the CJP, has revealed what youth-led democratic movements can achieve – and how hard they are to sustain. The movement was formed in May 2026 to protest the government’s cancellation of medical school entrance exams and after India’s Chief Justice Surya Kant likened unemployed youth to cockroaches. By July, the largely Gen Z movement had scored an early victory with the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.

By A Representative   The All-India Feminist Alliance (ALIFA) on Saturday expressed “immense pain and outrage” that even after four years and a national uproar, justice has not been fully delivered in the Ankita Bhandari murder case and that a ruling party politician facing allegations has been “gifted a high-ranking constitutional office.” In a statement, ALIFA extended “unflinching solidarity” to Ankita’s parents, who it said are “fighting for justice on the streets of Delhi,” and demanded that pending the CBI inquiry and judicial decision, the appointment of BJP leader Dushyant Kumar Gautam as Sikkim’s Governor be subject to “immediate presidential review.”