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  Audio: Is this fascism? | Daniel Trilling and Thomas Jones

  14 June 2025
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  Photo from CPIM Convention for restoration of legitimate constitutional rights of the people of Jammu & Kashmir (June 2025)

  14 June 2025
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  Caricature: Tribute to Frederick Forsyth | Jayaraj Vellur

  14 June 2025
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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 23, June 7, 2025

  7 June 2025

  * Indian Sophias: A Distinct Breed | L K Sharma
  * Newsrooms or War Rooms | Adfer Shah
  * Appeal to Govts. from International media & press freedom bodies for access to Gaza

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, June 7, 2025

  7 June 2025

  Misogyny Normalised
  Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, the wrestler cum politician from Uttar Pradesh who was facing sexual harassment charges saw his case closed by a Delhi court in May 2025, after the accused and her family withdrew their case and the police closed the matter. Following the closure Mr Brij Bhushan held a victory parade with 100 SUVs and thousands of his supporters in tow in the

• Indian Sophias: A Distinct Breed | L K Sharma

  7 June 2025, by L K Sharma

  An unusual Sophia Saga marked the latest Indo-Pak armed conflict. Reports were floated, then denied, that Col. Sophia Qureshi

• Cracks in Operation Sindur | Radhakanta Barik

  7 June 2025, by Radhakanta Barik

  Modi as the Prime Minister is scared of educated people and he cracks jokes " Hard work vs Harvard" This creates problems for managing the conflict areas of Indian economy politics and foreign policy. He dismantled the Planning Commission which used to bring the best economists to think boldly and searched a way out of crisis. It was a place of consultation among the chief ministers of states which affects the federal structure of political system. Niti Ayog cannot replace the old Planning (…)

• Newsrooms or War Rooms: The Collapse of Credibility | Adfer Rashid Shah

  7 June 2025

  The monetisation of nationalism, where outrage trumps objective analysis reflects a broader erosion of journalistic ethics in India. India

• From Watchdog to Echo Chambers: Media Bias and the Erosion of Democratic Values | Apoorva Pandey

  7 June 2025

  At a time, when the world was grappling with the harrowing 9/11 terrorist attack in the United States of America, a small country in East Africa was set to undergo a radical transformation that was going to alter the nation

• What Do We Learn, If Not to Question? Reflections from post-Pahalgam India | Sunit Singh

  7 June 2025

  What do we actually mean by learning something? Is it memorising facts, writing exams, getting a good job, or achieving a certain social status? I know a doctor who has been practising medicine for almost 15 years, yet he does not allow his daughter to enter the puja ghar (small temple in the house) or kitchen during her periods. Is he a learned person? Has he truly learned medicine? This brings us to a deeper question: What does learning actually mean, especially in the context of the (…)