Mainstream Weekly

Most recent articles

• Inequality In India Is Among The Highest In The World, Says World Inequality Lab | Gyan Pathak

  13 December 2025

  by Dr. Gyan Pathak
  (India Press Agency, December 12, 2025) Only five months after the Union Government had boasted in July 2025 that India was among the world

• Developing Nations Successfully Resisted Grab of Plant Seeds By Global Agribusiness | Soma Marla

  13 December 2025, by Soma S. Marla

  The 11th session of the governing body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) held November 2025 in Lima, Peru attempted to handover all genetic resources of developing Southern nations to global seed agribusiness. Thanks to active resistance from united South this malicious attempt was temporarily thwarted.
  Like water, air, soil and seeds are commons owned by community. Since the beginning of civilization and advent of farming, (…)

• Africa Hosts, But Global Leadership Falters | Sabba Choudhary

  13 December 2025

• Palestine: Harvesting olives under the occupation - a day in the West Bank | Uri Weltmann

  13 December 2025

  Palestine / 23 October 2025
  A first hand account by Uri Weltmann on a day in the life of peace activists from Israel, travelling to help Palestinians in the West Bank harvest their olives under threat from settlers and soldiers
  It is the olive harvest season. Palestinian communities are preparing for it, as they have for generations. This is not only economically vital, but also a practice rooted in their history, culture, and traditions.
  However, not all Palestinian farmers can simply (…)

• 

  Oppose Attempts to Whip Up Communal Tensions in Tamil Nadu | Joint Statement by Left parties

  13 December 2025

  [ 9 Dec 2025]
  The Left parties strongly condemn the attempts by the BJP and other Hindutva communal forces to whip up communal tensions in Tamil Nadu by manufacturing a controversy around the religious sites situated on Tirupparankundram Hill in Madurai district, with a sinister eye on political gain.
  Tirupparankundram Hill is home to three temples, a dargah, and several ancient Jain caves. For centuries, this hill has stood as a symbol of communal harmony and peaceful coexistence. (…)

• 

  Beware of Aadhaar A Warning on India

  13 December 2025

  10 December 2025
  We, concerned Indian citizens and organisations, are alarmed to note that efforts are being made to promote biometric identity systems similar to Aadhaar in other countries.
  Aadhaar is India

• 

  Salman Rushdie on Free Speech, India and How He

  13 December 2025
• 

  Music Video: Mr. Cardamom - Nani (starring Madhur Jaffrey)

  13 December 2025
• 

  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Dec 6, 2025

  6 December 2025

  * Manufacturing Steel, Manufacturing Chaos: On the Capitalist Pressure to Extract in Odisha - Part 1 | Ranjana Padhi
  * Obituary: James Watson (1928-2025) | Jos Chathukulam
  * Occupational Health | Arun Mitra
  * So Long As the Father Is the Law, Mothers Must Be Outlaws | Sarah Harpy

• Letter to the Readers —Continued advance of Hindutva has been chipping away at the secular republic of India ever since Dec 6, 1992

  6 December 2025

  Letter to the readers:
  The dismantling of the secular republic of India began 33 years ago, when a mob of thousands of Hindu extremists associated with Vishwa Hindu Parishad, the Rashtra SwayamSevak Sangh (RSS) demolished the Babri mosque in Uttar Pradesh on December 6, 1992, in full public view. It was a high point of a political campaign by Hindu fundamentalists, along with the BJP leaders, to construct a temple to Lord Rama at the site of the 15th-century Babri mosque in Ayodhya. The mosque