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  Scientist’s Letter to Minister of Agriculture to Safeguard India’s Sovereign Rights over Genetic Resources and the Rights of its Farmers

  25 October 2025

  Scientists for Genetic Diversity (SGD)
  Conservation

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  Call for All India Protest on Nov 26, 2025 by Central Trade Unions and the United Peasants Front (SKM)

  25 October 2025

  The Joint statement issued from the CTUs and SKM on 23.10.2025
  The Central Trade Unions, sectoral federations/associations and Samyukt Kisan Morcha call for a Nationwide massive mobilisation all over India at district level and at state headquarters on 26th November 2025
  The joint meeting of the CTUs and SKM held on 18th October 2025 reiterated their resolve to continue coordinated, synchronized and solidarity actions with each other in order to challenge the pro-corporate, anti-workers, (…)

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  Radical Socialist Statement on Ladakh (Oct 2025)

  25 October 2025

  The latest round of repression of leading activists of the Ladakh Apex Body (LAB)---putting them under house arrest when they sought to organize a peaceful protest march---shows once again the ugly face of the Modi government. This action was earlier preceded by the unjustified and condemnable detention of Sonam Wangchuk under the draconian National Security Act (NSA) ridiculously accusing him of conspiracy to overthrow the government.
  Ladakh is close to 60,000 square (…)

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  Oh! Orundhuti, Kamon Acho | Papri Sen Sri Raman

  25 October 2025, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Mother Mary Comes To Me
  by Arundhati Roy
  Publisher: Penguin Random-House, India
  374 pages
  Price: Rs 899
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  Very authoritative reviews of Mother Mary Comes to Me have been published in the first two months of the book

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  Review of Bonnell, Andrew G., Robert Michels, Socialism, and Modernity | Jens-Uwe Guettel

  25 October 2025

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Socialism, and Modernity
  by Andrew G. Bonnell. Robert Michels
  Oxford University Press
  2022
  viii + 282 pp.
  (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-287184-8
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  Sociology and Socialism
  Andrew G. Bonnell

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  Cartoon: Ban Crackers | Nala Ponnappa

  25 October 2025
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  Grigory Sokolov — Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C Minor, K. 457, III. Allegro assai

  25 October 2025

  Play
  Grigory Sokolov – Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C Minor, K. 457, III. Allegro assai by Deutsche Grammophon - DG https://youtu.be/CRzuhHRl6Io

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 42, Oct 18, 2025

  18 October 2025

  * Sonu Surrender & its Significance/Insignificance | Kobad Ghandy
  * SC must act, or the ECI, a constitutional body, would lose credibility | Arun Srivastava
  * Identity Politics and the Bihar Election 2025 | Dewendra Pratap Tiwari

• Sonu Surrender & its Significance/Insignificance | Kobad Ghandy

  18 October 2025, by Kobad Ghandy

  (This article is in response to recent news reports in India on the surrender by a Maoist leader, Sonu and his associates[[Sonu

• SC must act or the ECI a constitutional body would lose its credibility and sanctity | Arun Srivastava

  18 October 2025

  The Election Commission of India (ECI) has filed an affidavit before the Supreme Court in which it has accused petitioners, who have challenged the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, of having made incorrect and false claims in an attempt to derail the process. Certainly it is within its right but at the same time, ECI owes a moral responsibility of putting the incorrect claims in the public domain, which ECI ironically did not do.
  Instead of coming clean with (…)