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• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Aug 30, 2025

  30 August 2025

  Climate fury knows no national borders, the response should be cross border
  Nature knows no national borders. Spread across parts of South Asia territories of Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, J&K, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Tripura, also cities like Bombay and Delhi in India, Kashmir & Punjab including parts of Lahore in Pakistan, regions of Chattogram and Sylhet, in Bangladesh and in parts of Nepal including Kathmandu have faced damage with waves of heavy (…)

• Violence Against the Womb

  30 August 2025, by Bharat Dogra

  It is well-established medically that while hysterectomies are needed and justified in many cases, these should not be taken up indiscriminately, and where it is possible to treat using medication and less invasive procedures, these should be preferred. This is important considering that hysterectomies can have several harmful side effects, some of which can be serious. In any case all patients should be well-informed of the options available, the real need as well as side effects . (…)

• Battle on the streets over Vote-chori | Radhakanta Barik

  30 August 2025, by Radhakanta Barik

  The struggle for universal adult franchise is a continuous activity in modern politics. American President Washington turned into President with ten per cent of white people having the right to vote. They were rich, and no tenant farmer was allowed, no black labour, no white woman or black women. Only ten per cent of white males had the right to election in the early phase of American Independence. The struggle continued for two hundred years to enact universal adult franchise in America. (…)

• Why Our Cities Flood

  30 August 2025

  When torrential rains turned roads into rivers in cities like Mumbai, Chennai, and Bengaluru once again in 2024, the images that emerged were sadly all too familiar: vehicles half-submerged, pedestrians wading through waist-deep water, and houses inundated in hours. These were not isolated incidents. In the same year, urban floods ravaged nations as far apart as Afghanistan, Indonesia, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, France, and Germany. The message is clear

• Cotton Import Tax cut will damage farmers interests | Soma Marla

  30 August 2025, by Soma S. Marla

  In Telangana, cotton is a major cultivated crop after paddy. The recent decision by Union government to waive 11 % import tax on raw cotton from foreign countries is further pushing market-distressed farmers. Decision on exemption of import duties on August 18th was taken to stabilise domestic cotton prices and support the recent tariff-stricken textile industry. But the reality is different. It depresses prices further markets pushing farmers in to further distress and indebtedness. Also, (…)

• Revisiting Manipur 27 months later | John Dayal

  30 August 2025, by John Dayal

  There are many victims in the 27-month ethnic conflict in Manipur; and most government institutions must own responsibility.
  The devastating conflagration engulfed the north-eastern state on May 3, 2023, triggered by a Manipur High Court directive recommending Scheduled Tribe (ST) status for the Meitei community, escalating ethnic tensions into widespread violence.
  With over 200 deaths, thousands displaced, and societal divides deepened, it is a national crisis testing India

• One Hundred Years of Solitude: A Tale of Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency | Arup Kumar Sen

  30 August 2025, by Arup Kumar Sen

  The path-breaking novel of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude, may carry diverse meanings in different geographical and cultural locations. Marquez situated this novel in the fictional town

• Solid Waste Management and Informal Women Waste Collectors at Bhalaswa landfill in Delhi | Sridhar, Ali, Patel, Kushbu

  30 August 2025

  by V.K.Sridhar*, Akbar Ali, Abhishek Patel, Kushbu, Nasreena Ibrahmin, Sweta, Deepti Singh, Vijeta
  Abstract
  Waste holds different meanings across societies, as traditional communities tend to use resources conservatively, while industrialization and a culture of productivity have fostered a

• The Everyday Violence of Time: A Structural Analysis of 12-Hour Workdays in Jodhpur

  30 August 2025

  Introduction: The Illusion of Time
  The concept of time, when abstracted, often represents opportunity, leisure, and self-actualisation. The 12-hour workday, however, transforms this conceptual luxury into a constraint - a structure of unfreedom for industrial labourers. In the steel industry [read sheet metalware units] of Jodhpur, Rajasthan, workers routinely toil for 12 hours a day, six to seven days a week. Rather than being a matter of choice or productivity, such extended work hours (…)

• On our National Anthem | Jayanta Kumar Ghosal

  30 August 2025

  Tagore has had an immense influence on the shaping of the modern Indian mind. Our National Freedom Movement also received strong moral sustenance from him. And he composed