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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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Type of site | News, analysis and opinions |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Binu Mathew |
| Editor | Binu Mathew |
| URL | countercurrents |
| Commercial | Noncommercial |
| Launched | 2002 |
| Current status | Active |
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 MovementinKerala.[5][6][7]
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]