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  Video: CD Deshmukh Memorial Lecture 2025 : Reflections on an Interstitial Era by Amitav Ghosh

  18 January 2025
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  Video: A Critique of Decoloniality Theory - Kavish Chetty on Walter D. Mignolo

  18 January 2025

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 2, Jan 11, 2025

  12 January 2025

  * Why India

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 11, 2025

  12 January 2025

  Letter to the readers, Mainstream
  Indian society remains a conservative place with limited respect for legally guaranteed individual/personal rights of adult citizens. In the name of traditional values, community, caste, religion, and family carry greater weight compared to individuals and their rights and choices. In any society people trying to build personal relationships require places to interact, meet, to socialise, and need space and privacy. Personal space is under constant (…)

• Why India

  12 January 2025

  January 6, 2025
  Its ability to set the terms of the national discourse and political agility prompts BJP leaders to claim that they will be in power for a few more decades.
  The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has asserted that it will be in power for a long time.
  Indian Home Minister Amit Shah recently claimed that the party would be at the helm for the next 15 years [1]. Earlier, in 2015, he had said the next 30-year period would be the era of the BJP [2].
  The party has been in (…)

• Maharashtra and the power of Oligarchy | Faraz Ahmad

  12 January 2025, by Faraz Ahmad

  Britannica describes Oligarchy as a government with despotic power exercised by a small and privileged group for corrupt or selfish purposes.
  Wikipedia elaborates how Putative oligarchy in a country or nation in which one or a few Business groups become the largest private owners who possess sufficient political power to influence their own interests and control multiple businesses, coordinating activities across sectors.
  What was at stake during the Maharashtra Assembly elections? The (…)

• Arunachal Christians gird up to face a challenge from Sangh and the government | John Dayal

  12 January 2025, by John Dayal

  India

• Why attack Kerala CM over temple dress code? | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  12 January 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

  It is unclear why the chief minister of Kerala, Pinarayi Vijayan, has come under vicious criticism for merely endorsing a suggestion that men should not be forced to remove their upper garments while entering Hindu temples.
  In any case, there is no universally acceptable rule regarding upper garments in respect of males praying at temples. Indeed, most temples in India do not insist that male devotees in temples must be bare chested.
  This practice is now largely followed by some of the (…)

• Does Babasaheb

  12 January 2025, by Ram Puniyani

  As the insult hurled on Babasaheb by Amit Shah in Lok Sabha is coming under heavy criticism from all over the country, the right-wing Hindu Nationalist ideologues are trying to create a narrative that Babsaheb was on same page as the politics of those from Savarkar- RSS- and BJP in particular. (Balbir Punj on X: "The resurrection of Dr Ambedkar " / X) They are trying to pick and choose selectively from Ambedkar

• Impact of Pollution Prevention Steps on Workers in Delhi |

  12 January 2025, by Bharat Dogra

  As a part of steps to reduce air pollution in Delhi almost every year during winter or preceding weeks a temporary ban on construction work is announced which can extend to several weeks. What is the impact of this on workers and to what extent their difficulties are relieved by the compensatory payment the government provides? To find out I asked several construction workers in those colonies of Delhi where the population of construction workers is concentrated.
  Rakesh, Bharat and Gopal (…)