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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 4, Jan 25, 2025

  26 January 2025

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• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 25, 2025

  26 January 2025

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream
  As we mark 80 years of the liberation of German Nazi concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz [1], the openly reactionary, xenophobic, populist far-right quick fix is popular around the world [2]. Right-wing parties and their ideas have big appeal

• Politics over the Temple Dress Code | Ashish Ranjan Tiwari

  26 January 2025

  The comments made by Sivagiri Madhom president Swami Sachithananda regarding the need to take measures to abolish the practice of forcing men to visit temples bare-chested, which he called regressive and evil, have reignited the debate over whether or not it is appropriate on the part of places of religious worship, including temples, to impose strict dress code on devotees on the grounds of the maintenance of traditional decorum and religious sanctity. The Sivagiri Madhom president

• Rethinking the R G Kar Verdict | Arup Kumar Sen

  26 January 2025, by Arup Kumar Sen

  Late Justice V. R. Krishna Iyer was a champion of human rights. He

• Changing Character of the Wakf Institution | Ishrat Husain

  26 January 2025

  Two different views are in rage as for the current Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024. First, it is an attack on the Constitution, religious freedoms and the federal structure of India. Secondly, it does not infringe upon the freedoms of any religious community and the proposed changes are necessary to correct flaws in the current law. But inference should be drawn by going through some of the important provisions of the proposed Bill to know the fact, whether it is going to change the very nature (…)

• Comrade M.N. Roy, the father of ’neo-humanism’ | Suresh Khairnar

  26 January 2025, by Suresh Khairnar

  Humble greetings today on the occasion of the 71st death anniversary of Comrade M.N. Roy, the father of ’neo-humanism’!
  Narendranath Bhattacharya alias Manvendra Nath Roy (M.N. Roy is more popular), this thirteen-year-old boy was born 138 years ago, on 21st March 1887 in Bengal’s 24 Pargana district. That means Narendra was born in the last phase of the nineteenth century. And after crossing thirteen years, he devoted his life as a revolutionary. At the beginning of the twentieth century, (…)

• Delhi Assembly Elections: Change or status quo? | Prem Singh

  26 January 2025, by Prem Singh

  The search for any ideological content in the Delhi Assembly elections scheduled to be held on 5 February 2025 would be like shuffling in a haystack for a needle.
  But this ideological void does not appear to create any serious worry to people in the country’s capital and the centre of power. This is despite the fact that Delhi/NCR is home to a great number of important citizens: serving and retired government bureaucrats/officials, jurists/legislators, intellectuals, journalists, (…)

• Humra: A Journalist with a Golden Heart | Papri Sri Raman

  26 January 2025, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

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• Peaceful Darkness | Devika Sharma

  26 January 2025

  The auto met the electric car,
  In a perfect perpendicular
  On the Janpath road, where
  Children, men, and women
  Horses, tanks and planes,
  Come together every year to
  Display India

• Open Letter to Com. Prakash Karat to dissuade the government led by his party from proceeding with the nuclear power plants in Kerala | K. Sahadevan

  26 January 2025, by K. Sahadevan

  Com. Prakash Karat, where are you? The people of Cheemeni (Kerala) are waiting for you.
  Dear Com. Prakash Karat,
  I trust you are aware that the government, led by your party, is in talks to construct two nuclear power plants in the Cheemeni area of Kerala’s Kasaragod district, each with a 220 MW generating capacity.
  As an anti-nuclear activist who supported you and Com. Sitaram Yechury, the backers of the movement against the Jaitapur nuclear power plant project in the Ratnagiri (…)