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  Radical Socialist Statement on Bihar Election Results | Nov 18, 2025

  22 November 2025

  What was expected to be a very close-fought election turned out to be a massive victory for the NDA in Bihar. To what extent did the 65 lakhs deletions from the voters list and other additions to it of those coming of voting age or who were otherwise being included, affect the final results? Was the ECI complicit in this, thereby expressing its bias towards the BJP-led Central government and to the NDA in Bihar? There have been sound reasons for suspecting such a bias, which, if true, (…)

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  Review of Bala Ramulu Chinnala’s Development Strategies and Governance in India | Srinivasulu Karli

  22 November 2025, by Karli Srinivasulu

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Development Strategies and Governance in India:
  Predicaments and Challenges
  by Bala Ramulu Chinnala
  Routledge
  2025
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  Reviewed by Srinivasulu Karli
  Post-independent India

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  Reconciling Gandhi and Savarkar: The Paranjape Way | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  22 November 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

  Biographer Vikram Sampath may be convinced that the ideologies of Mahatma Gandhi and Veer Savarkar remain the perfectly irreconcilable polar opposites that would never meet. But prolific writer and veteran academic Makarand R. Paranjape disagrees. The feud between the two men of history, he is equally confident, was actually a family quarrel as they were both fellow freedom fighters and professedly fellow Hindus.
  And so, the unending antagonism between Gandhi and Savarkar needs a new (…)

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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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  Apache by The Shadows - Topic https://youtu.be/35TyKTB0zqg?si=Tf-Gew-wjEndLj6Y

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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: