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  A Legendary Conservationist

  2 August 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Snakes, Drugs and Rock

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  Photos: People of Bombay stand in solidarity with Palestinians (July 2025)

  2 August 2025

  source: Indians for Palestine on X @Hind4Palestine

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  Documentary: When the Pynes flow

  2 August 2025

  Located in Nalanda district, Bihar, this film documents community-based work with small-holder farmers and sharecroppers on the intersecting issues of water, agriculture and nutrition security.

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  Video: The statehood of Palestine —A Palestinian account | Victor Kattan

  2 August 2025

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  The statehood of Palestine: A Palestinian account: Cambridge University Lawyers Without Borders by Cambridge Law Faculty https://youtu.be/W23hT0mFMdY?si=_P5apq4Z_21x4_yt

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  Music: Antonio Vivaldi - Juditha Triumphans - Arma, caedes, vindictae, furores

  2 August 2025
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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No30, July 26 2025

  26 July 2025

  * Documenting the Predicaments of Bengali Migrant Workers | Arup Kumar Sen
  * Governance as if people, democracy and conservation matter | C.R Bijoy
  * Hindi vs Marathi and the contest over Indian identity | Mandar Oak
  * The Editors Guild of India condoles the death of Sumit Chakravartty

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, July 26, 2025

  26 July 2025

  The court

• Documenting the Predicaments of Bengali Migrant Workers | Arup Kumar Sen

  26 July 2025, by Arup Kumar Sen

  In recent times, tales of brutal treatment and eviction of Bengali migrant workers from different states in India have been reported in the media. Some Muslim workers from Murshidabad district in West Bengal, who went to Mumbai to earn their livelihood, were arrested by the police on June 9, 2025, and brutally tortured in the prison. One of them, Shamim Khan, complained that the police took away his mobile phone, voter identity card and about twenty thousand rupees that he had. Then the (…)

• Governance as if people, democracy and conservation matter | C.R Bijoy

  26 July 2025

  Governance as if people, democracy and conservation matter is embedded in social and environmental justice, expressed through ethics, morality, culture and spirituality. It is an outcome of intense political struggle for deepening democracy. The human species is the only species that organizes production. We organize society in ways that suit the way we organize production. Conservation ethics expresses itself through the ethic of natural resource allocation, their use and protection. The (…)

• Was Dhankar sacrificed on Shekhar Yadav altar? | Faraz Ahmad

  26 July 2025, by Faraz Ahmad

  Was the outgoing Vice President of India Jagdeep Dhankar sacrificed at the altar of the communally surcharged hate spewing Allahabad High Court judge Shekhar Yadav? It seems that saving the skin of that abrasive unapologetic Hindutva judge, who defied the advice of the then Chief Justice of India, to apologise for his perceived misconduct, enjoyed such immunity from this Government that he chose to brazen it out.
  A little error of judgement on the part of Dhankar to give voice to the (…)