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  Video: Herbert Marcuse interview with Bryan Magee (1977)

  22 November 2025

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  Herbert Marcuse interview with Bryan Magee (1977) by Manufacturing Intellect https://youtu.be/0KqC1lTAJx4

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  Music: Apache — The Shadows

  22 November 2025

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Nov 15, 2025

  15 November 2025

  * Bihar will be Bihar, Until . . . | Letter to the Readers
  * Indians Really | Ishrat Husain
  * Rebordering the Indo-Myanmar Frontier| Naorem Sumanta Singh
  * Navigating Trump

• Bihar will be Bihar, until . . . | Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Nov 15, 2025

  15 November 2025, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

  * Bihar has the highest Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) among Indian states, with the latest data showing 33.76% of its population is multidimensionally poor.
  * Bihar’s education index performance ranks last among states in the national Performance Grading Index (PGI) [1] 2023

• 2025 Bihar polls: Victory of Modi or Gyanesh? | Faraz Ahmad

  15 November 2025, by Faraz Ahmad

  The worst apprehensions in regard to the month-long Special Intensive Review (SIR) of voters

• 2025 Bihar Assembly Election Results: Truly Historic | P. S. Jayaramu

  15 November 2025, by P S Jayaramu

  The Bihar Assembly Elections raised a plethora of debate throughout the country even before the proclamation of election was announced by the Election Commission of India. An attempt is made here to discuss the various dimensions of the polls. No specific effort is made at number crunching like the number of seats contested by the Parties/ coalitions, the percentage of votes they polled, caste-wise breakup etc. I must add that my analysis is not based on any field visit, as I am sitting far (…)

• JNU: A Site of Domination and Resistance | Arup Kumar Sen

  15 November 2025, by Arup Kumar Sen

  Until recent times JNU was known for its cosmopolitan outlook and as a site for healthy debates. While revisiting its history, one national daily observed:

• Indians Really |

  15 November 2025

  The Union Ministry of Culture hosted a conference in New Delhi from September 11 to 13, 2025. Bringing together archaeologists, scientists, and experts from diverse fields to present findings on the undeciphered Harappan script, a mystery since its discovery in the 1920s. The search for decoding the Harappan script is not just an academic pursuit but one heavily shaped by political and cultural narratives in India. Various groups view the Harappan script as a means to counter the Aryan (…)

• Navigating Trump

  15 November 2025

  India-US relations is facing its worst crisis in recent times. The terms of global trade are being re-written in an unprecedented manner. The Liberation Day

• Rebordering the Indo-Myanmar Frontier | Naorem Sumanta Singh

  15 November 2025

  Abstract
  The 1,643-km Indo-Myanmar border is a contested terrain where India