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  Video: Albert Hirschman Lecture with Jayati Ghosh (Sept 30, 2025)

  11 October 2025
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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 40, Oct 4, 2025

  4 October 2025

  * Gathering Storm at Ladakh | Bhattacharya, Nag
  * Corruption, Privatisation and Workers

• Gathering Storm at Ladakh | Arpan Bhattacharya, Gouri Sankar Nag

  4 October 2025

  The situation in Ladhak strikes us for it seems to be relying precisely on that

• Corruption, Privatisation and Workers

  4 October 2025, by S N Tripathy

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  Growing corruption, black money, and the erosion of workers

• Books as Crime ? Whether J and K High-court Will End the ’Unprecedented Situation’ ? | Subhash Gatade

  4 October 2025, by Subhash Gatade

• From Satan to Rushdie: Why Book Bans Always Fail | Santosh Mathew

  4 October 2025

  When the Supreme Court of India recently dismissed a petition to ban Salman Rushdie

• Remembering Asghar Ali Engineer | Arup Kumar Sen

  4 October 2025, by Arup Kumar Sen

  26th Asghar Ali Engineer Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Uma Chakravarti, the eminent feminist historian, on October 3, 2025. The occasion reminds us of the sincerity and commitment with which Asghar documented and analysed the communal riots and violence in postcolonial India. In fact, he played a pioneering role in documenting the dark side of Indian history unfolding before our eyes. The book edited by him in the early 1980s, Communal Riots in Post-Independence India (Sangam Books, (…)

• A River of Grief: What Zubeen Garg

  4 October 2025

  On the morning of September 21, as Zubeen Garg

• As Long as Privilege Exists, Reservation Must Exist | Sunit Singh

  4 October 2025

  Rethinking the Rationale for Caste-based Reservation
  Reservation is one of the longest and most emotional debates in India. In a sociology classroom I attended, we were discussing caste in India. Students came from diverse regions, social backgrounds, and castes. Almost everyone agreed on one thing: caste has been a form of oppression. Even those who said caste is disappearing admitted that at some point in history, caste was an oppressive system. Everyone accepted that lower castes were (…)

• Street Vendors

  4 October 2025

  Social exclusion, defined as the systematic barring of individuals and groups from one or more dimensions of society as structures of power, privilege, opportunities, and resources, has been a persistent feature of human civilisations. Across the world, societies have developed mechanisms-some overt, others subtle-to deny large sections of the population access to material and symbolic goods, thereby institutionalising inequality. In Europe, exclusion discourse has often centred on labour (…)