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• The Uncharted Trajectory of India and Pakistan Conundrum | Ajay Kumar Mishra

  10 May 2025, by Ajay Kumar Mishra

  Introduction
  India and Pakistan find themselves once again on the verge of a perilous clash. The rising tensions have propelled the subcontinent into unfamiliar territory, increasing the likelihood of a serious crisis as diplomatic channels are neglected and relations between the two countries deteriorate further. Both sides of the border exhibit a tendency towards war, influencing public sentiment regarding readiness for conflict. Additionally, religious extremism appears to foster a (…)

• Victims of Hyper-Nationalism in India | Arup Kumar Sen

  10 May 2025, by Arup Kumar Sen

  The basic premise of hyper-nationalism being nurtured by the Indian state under the current BJP regime is creation of suspected enemies, both internal and external. This is clearly visible in the wake of recent killings of the tourists in Jammu and Kashmir on April 22, 2025. The Statement issued by PUCL on April 25, 2025 in this context (incorporated in the last issue of Mainstream) drew our attention to it:

• What Should India

  10 May 2025

  The 2025 Pahalgam attack was an attack on tourists by five armed militants near Pahalgam, in the Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in which 26 civilians were killed on 22 April.
  The country is no doubt deeply anguished by the Pahalgam attack, but to understand the teleology behind this act, we need more than national grief and the war cry of retribution. If we search from a dispassionate perspective, we will find two particularly troubling aspects of this event: first, in peacetime (…)

• Post Pahalgam attack: How BJP has successfully subordinated diplomacy to the politics of communal polarization? | Sanjay Kumar Singh

  10 May 2025

  Post-Pahalgam attack on 22 April 2025, BJP led NDA government has racheted up a war hysteria. A majority of the Parliamentary opposition has aquised by offering unconditional support to any steps that the government initiates to take to task the culprits and their ’patrons’. Thereby, the BJP led NDA has been given a carte blanche, at least in the domain of foreign policy viz., the liberty to decide upon the contuors of Indo-Pak relationship that could forefront a military option over (…)

• Banality of dusk and dawn

  10 May 2025

  The past few months have been emotionally and psychophysically draining

• Waqf In Transition: Reform, Resistance, And The Road Ahead | Lakshmi Karlekar, Tanishaa Pandey

  10 May 2025

  ABSTRACT
  Waqf is

• Cheena Bhavan and the Building of a New Human Civilization | Nandita Chaturvedi

  10 May 2025

  Cheena Bhavan in Shantiniketan has the rare quality of being an institution that is both historic and futuristic. It is futuristic not because of buildings of glass and metal, or an endowment, but because of the content of its project, its students and members and the vision of Rabindranath Tagore and Tan Yun Shan that forms its foundation. Cheena Bhavana is one of the oldest Bhavanas on the campus, and was established a year before even Hindi Bhavana. Founded by the work of Tan Yun Shan in (…)

• Poem on War and Destruction | Rabindranath Tagore

  10 May 2025

  Poem by Rabindranath Tagore on the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937
  The war drums are sounded.
  Men force their features into frightfulness and gnash their teeth;
  and before they rush out to gather raw human flesh for death

• Dissanayake

  10 May 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

  Just six months after he led his party to an unprecedented two-third majority in Sri Lanka

• Israel’s Defiant Posture on UN Aid and Refugee Relief to Gaza and Palestinians: Can the International Court of Justice Make any Difference? | Gautam Sen

  10 May 2025

  On 28th April this year, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the UNs top court and one of its principal organs, has begun hearings on Israels legal obligations to facilitate deliveries of relief material and life-sustaining goods to the Palestinians in Gaza. This in the backdrop of more than 2 million Gaza-based Palestinians affected by internal displacement and also death and destruction on an unimaginable scale consequent on the HAMAS-Israel conflict raging since October 7th 2023. (…)