Mainstream Weekly

Most recent articles

• Modi’s turn from non-biological to human | J P Gadkari

  12 January 2025, by J P Gadkari

  January 11, 2025
  Prime Minister Narendra Modi who had earlier declared himself as a "non-biological" being has now gone back on that claim and has asserted that he too like all other "human beings" was likely to commit mistakes.
  Modi had made his earlier claim of not being "biological" by birth barely eight months ago. Now with his first inaugural podcast address conducted by Zerronda co-founder Nikhil Kamath, Modi has asserted that he might have committed some mistakes as any other (…)

• Refusing invitation for swearing in, points to Trump-Modi friendship on the rock | Arun Srivastava

  12 January 2025

  Their friendship is fragile. It is not based on the precinct of mutual trust and respect. Both, Donald Trump and Narendra Modi, have been busy promoting their own personal interests behind the veneer of friendship. While Trump used it for achieving his business mission, more than fulfilling US interest, Modi suffering from a personality complex used it for projecting him as Vishwaguru, the most revered and respected world leader.
  Obviously Trump not inviting Modi to his swearing as the US (…)

• India Is the Stage and the World Is Performing | Disha

  12 January 2025, by Disha

  Abstract
  The potential of the Indian fans has changed the global entertainment dynamics. From Dua Lipa’s viral mashup performance in Mumbai to YouTuber MrBeast’s growing engagement with India, the significance of this diverse and vast demographic is impossible to overlook. This article explores why international artists and content creators increasingly tailor their offerings for Indian consumers. With widespread internet penetration, rising purchasing power, and a versatile appetite for (…)

• GST: Middle Class and Social Justice | Akshint Joseph, Karamala Areesh Kumar

  12 January 2025

  The Goods and Services Tax (GST) was first imagined under former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee

• Big Tech and the Need for Fair Revenue Sharing for News Content | Teresa Joseph

  12 January 2025, by Teresa Joseph

  The exponential growth of big tech digital platforms has brought to the fore numerous challenges, not the least being questions of revenue sharing, violation of data privacy, targeted advertising, abuse of dominant position in the digital advertisement market, indulging in anticompetitive practices, perpetuation of dominant positions in online search markets, and so on. These issues also draw attention to the architecture of the contemporary global media system and the working of the digital (…)

• Popular Culture and War on Terror: Role of United States in International Relations | Sunita Samal

  12 January 2025, by Sunita Samal

  Popular culture is interesting to IR (International Relations) theorists in so far as it can naturalize or normalize a certain social order upon which dominant ideologies are founded. Here, the myths serve as a silent, sub-textual pillars of the real. Gestures of naturalization are phenomena of political power in so far as such power works through myths by appearing to the political out of ideological[[Weber, C. (2013)

• Detention: A Failure of the Child or the System? |

  12 January 2025

  Abstract
  The essay explores the no-detention policy and its implications in the Indian education system, arguing that poor academic performance stems from systemic flaws rather than individual student failure. Highlighting historical, constitutional, and policy dimensions, it emphasizes the importance of quality teacher training, individualized learning approaches, and addressing systemic shortcomings to ensure effective education. The essay critiques recent policy changes and calls for a (…)

• Identity Politics of Representation and Reservation of Backward Communities in India | Manoj Kumar Mishra

  12 January 2025

  The elevation of Draupadi Murmu, an Adivasi, as President of India succeeded by Ramnath Kovind, a Dalit, as the Constitutional Head of the country signaled adroit strategies by the BJP to represent marginalized sections communities in consonance with its efforts at forging national identities conferring it with electoral success. Much in a similar vein, of late, Mohan Majhi has been anointed as the Chief Minister of Odisha following the BJP

• 2025: Challenges before the NDA Government & the Opposition | P. S. Jayaramu

  12 January 2025, by P S Jayaramu

  January 6, 2025
  The year 2025 has begun. It is appropriate to examine the challenges before the NDA Government and the Opposition.
  It must be stated at the very outset that though the BJP failed to secure a majority on its own and had to depend on the allies, specially the TDP and the JD(U), to form the government, in reality, it is clear that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is conducting himself as though he is heading a single party/ BJP government. The symptoms of that emerged in the (…)

• About People

  12 January 2025, by S G Vombatkere