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• The Circle of Chalk and Dust | Sreejith K

  25 October 2025

  There are seasons in a teacher

• Lalu more concerned of his personal gains than fighting the fascist and rightist saffron ecosystem | Arun Srivastava

  25 October 2025, by Arun Srivastava

  Like his father Lalu Yadav, his younger son, the leader of opposition Tejashwi Yadav took to aggressive posture and announced headline-grabbing promises for the voters even before Bihar INDIA bloc comes out with its common minimum programme, purely with the intent of projecting himself as the chief minister face of Mahagathbandhan and the INDIA bloc.
  Tejashvi would be next chief minister was never a contentious issue. Congress not declaring him as future chief minister was the part of its (…)

• Letter to the Editor: Arun Srivastava’s gratuitous attack on Lalu Yadav reflects upper caste bias | Faraz Ahmad

  25 October 2025, by Faraz Ahmad

  Letter to the Editor
  Mainstream Weekly
  October 26, 2025
  Dear Editor,
  I refer here to the piece titled

• Predatory Extractions Can Derail India’s Economic Development | Sucha Singh Gill

  25 October 2025

  Economic development and its sustainability depends on the inter generational savings and their productive investment. Productive investment gets a boost if it is accompanied by innovations in various aspects of life. This process gets disrupted when predatory extractions of economic resources/surpluses happen due to internal or external factors.
  Predatory extractions are defined as collection of economic resources by the state or non-state actors by force or manipulation and are (…)

• Will Machado getting 2025 Nobel Peace Prize spur democratisation in Venezeula? | Sanjoy De, Atanu Sengupta

  25 October 2025

  Introduction
  The Nobel Peace Prize is always controversial. There will always be opponents to those who receive the Peace Prize. But sometimes it rigidly violates the norms of peace. From history we know that Adolf Hitler was nominated for Nobel Peace Prize in 1939. Fortunately, it did not materialize. We also know that Mahatma Gandhi

• Out of the City

  25 October 2025, by Sagari Chhabra

  Out of the City

• The Allure of English-Medium Education: Telangana at the Crossroads of Language, Equity, and AI | Adama Srinivas Reddy

  25 October 2025, by Adama Srinivas Reddy

  In today

• Outside Efforts to Change Governments in Venezuela and Other Latin American Countries Should Stop | Bharat Dogra

  25 October 2025, by Bharat Dogra

  If a question is asked

• "Rasseya

  25 October 2025

  [brun]A rare English-translated article from Lev Sosnovsky is this remarkable look into the changes the first years of the revolution brought to one small village in the Kaluga region whose name was changed from

• Cash Incentives for Votes: Who will Bell the Cat? | Sher Singh Sangwan

  25 October 2025

  Not only declaration but distribution of money before the election is becoming the order of the day in recent years. In Madhya Pradesh, on 5 March 2023, Mukhya