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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 24, June 14, 2025

  14 June 2025

  * Need for check on the appointment process of the Governor | Vijay Kumar
  * Mahakumbha 2025: Dharmanomics & its Aftermath | Jayita Mukhopadhyay
  * Review of Bose

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, June 14, 2025

  14 June 2025

  Stand up with the Iranians facing Israeli aggression
  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream
  Israel

• All-Party Delegations

  14 June 2025, by P S Jayaramu

  June, 12 2025
  In the aftermath of Op Sindoor, the Modi Government decided to send seven delegations consisting of 59 Members of Parliament from NDA and non-NDA formations to travel to 32 countries, including EU Headquarters in Brussels, the Americas, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, West Asia and a few other countries, excluding of course the immediate neighbourhood ( which is inexplicable) to explain India

• Mahakumbha 2025: Dharmanomics and its Aftermath | Jayita Mukhopadhyay

  14 June 2025

  In an age where customs and traditions, faith and beliefs, everything is marketed, the tremendous hype created around the Mahakumbha Mela that took place in the months of January-February 2025 was unprecedented. The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath, claimed that this Kumbha happened on days of unique celestial alignment that occurs every 144 years, and this fair is a symbol of the greatness of Indian civilisation. While there are some textual references to the antiquity of (…)

• Memeification of Kejriwal as a Leader: Exploring the Digital Political Culture in the 2025 Delhi Electoral Campaign | Survesh Pratap Singh

  14 June 2025

  Indian democracy is often praised for its clean record of conducting consistent elections and putting in place a representative government based on the principle of one person, one vote. Ever since India gained sovereign independence in 1947, election campaigns have been a regular affair with various political parties putting forward their candidates, policies and programmes to try and win the popular vote and form governments. With the advent and rapid advancement of internet and social (…)

• From Truman to Trump: The Evolution of Development as Global Hegemony | Sunit Singh

  14 June 2025

  Truman

• Aadhaar Number database is beyond national control: India

  14 June 2025, by Gopal Krishna

  Transfer of biometric database compromises sovereignty of nations in South Asia
  The spectre of an authoritarian, vindictive, surveillance state thus continues looming large over India. Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Chairperson, Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs in Our Living Constitution (2025), p. 97
  There is no system of maintaining year wise records of deactivations. Maintaining such a database is not required under the Aadhaar Act, 2016 and Aadhaar (Enrolment & Update) (…)

• Trade Diplomacy Amid the Dichotomy of the Civilisational and Liberal States | Ajay Kumar Mishra, Shraddha Rishi

  14 June 2025, by Ajay Kumar Mishra

  Abstract
  This paper explores why civilisational states exhibit cooperative values in trade and exchange. It highlights an irony where the decline of liberal states might have been expected to weaken trade ties, given that liberalism underpins the very concept of trade. Moreover, it discusses the need for market expansion, materialist interpretation of history, geo-economic complementarities, and trade strategies between civilisational states that drive trade relations among civilisational (…)

• Was the Jagmohan Lal Sinha judgement against Indira Gandhi fair to her? | Faraz Ahmad

  14 June 2025, by Faraz Ahmad

  Jagmohan Lal Sinha

• How to Read Donald Trump

  14 June 2025, by Arup Kumar Sen

  Trump