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• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, July 12, 2025

  12 July 2025

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream
  BJP on a rampage

• Kerala Model of Healthcare: A Paradox? | Jos Chathukulam

  12 July 2025, by Jos Chathukulam

  Abstract
  A senior doctor in Kerala has made shocking revelations about the shortcomings at the Government Medical College in Thriruvanthapuram, the state capital. This has opened a pandora

• Need for convergence of global and local ideas to resolve the issues of poverty and hunger in the world | CR Annapurna

  12 July 2025, by C R Annapurna

  Introduction
  The world today is going through an intriguing dilemma of globalisation vs. localisation. The concept of globalisation has been making rounds since Theodore Levitt, a Harvard Business School professor, popularised through his article

• They Suffer in Silence

  12 July 2025, by Bharat Dogra

  Wars and conflicts have been one of the biggest causes of human suffering, and this suffering has been increasing over the recent centuries of

• Books, Films and Assassinations: The Kukunoor film a Reality Check | Papri Sen Sri Raman

  12 July 2025, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

  FILMS AND BOOKS are an average educated person

• Secularism and Socialism in Constitution

  12 July 2025, by Ram Puniyani

  The RSS General Secretary, Dattatray Hosabale, second in the RSS leadership hierarchy, on the eve of imposition of Emergency in 1975; stated that it was during the emergency that words Secularism and socialism were inserted in the preamble of Indian Constitution. And that these words were not there in the original preamble of the Constitution drafted by Dr. Ambedkar; so they should be removed.
  This is not the first time that such a demand was raised from Hindutva quarters. When the BJP (…)

• Is

  12 July 2025, by Arup Maharatna

  Even the most patriotic citizens would seriously hesitate to disagree that India is perennially

• Russia is paying schoolgirls to have babies. Why is pronatalism on the rise around the world? | Jennifer Mathers

  12 July 2025

  July 4, 2025
  In some parts of Russia, schoolgirls [1] who become pregnant are being paid more than 100,000 roubles (nearly

• Chomsky in India | Jean Dreze

  12 July 2025, by Jean Dreze

  Sometime around 1991 I wrote to Noam Chomsky and invited him to give a few lectures in India. It felt like wishful thinking

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  Letter from Concerned scientists to India’s Minister of Agriculture regarding on future of International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources

  12 July 2025

  Date: July 8, 2025
  To:
  Sri Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India
  Subject - Urgent need for Indian intervention on the proposals on the future of genetic resources in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA)
  The 14th Meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group of ITPGRFA contracting parties is taking place from 7-11 July in Lima, Peru. The specific focus of this meeting is to expand the scope (…)