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  Cartoon: The Coup in Maharashtra with a Little Help via the Backdoor | Jayaraj Vellur

  1 July 2022, by Jayaraj Vellur
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  Photo: 1935 passport of Rabindranath Tagore

  1 July 2022
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  Photo: 1956 Polish Workers Strike and Uprising at Zispo metal factory in Poznan

  1 July 2022
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  Painting: Pavel Tchelitchew Deux Marins (Two Sailors) 1923

  1 July 2022
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  Music: Grandezza On Guitar | Baden Powell (1976)

  1 July 2022

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• Larger Significance of Naveen Patnaik’s Meeting with Pope Francis | S N Sahu

  24 June 2022, by S N Sahu

  Special for Mainstream
  updated on June 24, 2022
  While in Rome during his visit to Italy on the invitation of the World Food Program (WFP), for sharing the transformative initiatives of Odisha in the field of food security and disaster management Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi at the MG Memorial Statue at the Plazza Gandhi in the city and called on Pope Francis in Vatican City on June 22, 2022. He met the Pope seven months after providing monetary (…)

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  [bleu]Table of Contents, Mainstream, June 18 & June 25, 2022[/bleu]

  17 June 2022

  * Jammu and Kashmir: ‘Muscular Policy’ or Policy Paralysis | M A Sofi
  * Naga National Assembly: Foreboding of a cold Peace | Kumar Sanjay Singh
  * Inside a reintegration camp for Colombia’s ex-guerrilla fighters | Gomez & Hart

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, June 18 & June 25, 2022

  17 June 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, June 18 & June 25, 2022
  Over the past years, credible commentators have repeatedly pointed out the limited job creation and a precarious labour market with a shrinking number of secure long-term jobs and the worrying prospect of social tensions due to growing unemployment. A few months ago there had been protests by the unemployed in the states of Bihar and UP over changes in recruitment procedures in the Railways. The simmering tensions over jobs (…)

• Now Is The Time To Say Goodbye | TJS George

  17 June 2022, by T J S George

  IMPRESSIONS
  All good things must come to an end. This column started appearing as an Express feature in 1997. It has been going on without a break for a quarter century. That is a long run, a real long run. A year’s 52 weeks multiplied by 25 means that a jaw-dropping 1300 installments of the column have appeared under the "Point of View" title.
  There were of course problems along the way. But they did not affect the flow. The call of duty always won. For those whose profession (…)

• ‘Muscular Policy’ or Policy Paralysis: The scourge of living in a conflict zone | M A Sofi

  17 June 2022

  by M A Sofi
  Those having the good fortune of living their lives in relative peace away from ground zero in a conflict zone, have no idea of how people living their lives there under the permanent shadow of gun have to contend with so much uncertainty, unpredictability, insecurity and violence on a routine basis. Come to think of it, the news involving someone being caught in a cross fire, or of someone having been picked up by the police from his office or residence or maimed or killed (…)