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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 21, May 24, 2025

  24 May 2025

  * Open Letter to Prime Minister Modi: Instead of multiple delegations abroad to push India

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, May 24, 2025

  24 May 2025

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream
  No to militarisation of the social atmosphere
  A game to politicise the recent military confrontation with Pakistan is in full swing in India. The main player here is the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that leads the National Democratic Alliance government and its leader Mr Narendra Modi. Large cut outs of Mr Modi dressed in a military uniform have been spotted in many cities as if to market his role in the military operation against Pakistan. A civilian (…)

• Supreme Court

  24 May 2025, by Vijay Kumar

  Given the existence of Democracy, right to freedom of speech and expression is an indispensable concomitant, and hence, must be safeguarded. The Supreme Court order granting interim bail to Ali Khan Mahmudabad, a teacher in the Ashoka University, for his post on

• Resume SAARC, renew friendships | Jawed Naqvi

  24 May 2025, by Jawed Naqvi

  THE late poet and film lyricist Kaifi Azmi described a strange method of writing film songs, which has come to bear a close resemblance to the method in Prime Minister Narendra Modi

• Draft UGC Regulations, 2025: Whither Cooperative Federalism? |

  24 May 2025, by Nayakara Veeresha

  Abstract
  The UGC Draft Regulations, 2025 seek to supersede the existing UGC 2018 Rules for the Minimum Qualifications for Appointment and Promotion of Teachers and Academic Staff in Universities and Colleges. The 2025 Draft fails to explain or to provide the reasons for bringing up the new regulations. This has given rise to many doubts and apprehensions among the academia about the intent and motivation behind the new draft regulations. Most significantly it widened the trust deficit (…)

• Modi using Delegate Diplomacy as weapon to fight his adversaries and refashion his image | Arun Srivastava

  24 May 2025

  by Arun Srivastava
  Indeed, bizarre Narendra Modi who believes in the dictum that there are no friends in politics, has become the victim of the intrigues of his best friend Donald Trump. His keeping quiet posture to Trump

• Comments on Recently Released Gene Edited Rice Varieties in India | Soma Marla

  24 May 2025, by Soma S. Marla

  Recently Indian agricultural minister has unveiled nation

• Trump heads ultra-capitalist, hyper-technological, neo-monarchy | Ash Narain Roy

  24 May 2025, by Ash Narain Roy

  Thy hand, great Anarch! let

• Open Letter to Prime Minister Modi: Instead of multiple delegations abroad to push India’s Case on terror, send just one to Pakistan to talk Peace | Pandey, Saleem & Thomas

  24 May 2025, by Sandeep Pandey

  Shri Narendra Modi
  Prime Minister of India
  Respected Shri Modi,
  The Socialist Party (India) would like to suggest through this open letter that the government abandon the plan of sending seven delegations of members of different political parties to countries around the world in a bid to make the world aware of India

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  Sapru House at 70: The Quiet Powerhouse That Shaped India

  24 May 2025

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  At 70, Sapru House is not just a milestone of brick and marble