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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 11, Mar 15, 2025

  15 March 2025

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• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Mar 15, 2025

  15 March 2025

  Letter to the readers, Mainstream
  Hate-speech which used to be on the fringe has gained major grounds during the Narendra Modi years

• Meaning of Hindutva Hooliganism in the Odisha Legislative Assembly | Bhabani Shankar Nayak

  15 March 2025

  On March 11, 2025, the people of Odisha witnessed a historic low in the Odisha State Legislative Assembly, where ruling party BJP Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) attacked opposition party members inside the house, which is considered the temple of democracy. The ruckus was not accidental; it was a result of the criminalisation of politics in the state. In Odisha, more than fifty percent of the MLA candidates contesting in the 2024 elections had criminal records. Among the winning (…)

• Open Letter of Supreme Court Advocate Colin Gonsalves On Supreme Court’s Refusal to Entertain Petition for CBI Enquiry into murder of Ankita

  15 March 2025

  (Ankita, a young girl who was killed while employed in a hotel run by a BJP leader’s close relative in Dehradun. for more information on the Ankita Bhandari Murder case see this report)
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• The Lokpal Debate: A Threat to Judicial Independence? | Ahmed Raza

  15 March 2025

  The recent decision to include High Court judges under the Lokpal

• When NGOs are Killed | Aishwarya Bhuta

  15 March 2025

  I write this with a heavy heart. In less than a year, I have helplessly witnessed the painful closure of two non-profit organisations close to my heart. One was my former employer, and another was where I came as a researcher but left as one of their own. The first was one among many casualties of the FCRA attack, the other of a donor

• Schooling or Struggle: A Reflection on Rural Schools | Sunit Singh

  15 March 2025

  This article reflects my thoughts on education in rural India after completing my course in Sociology of Education and doing a short one-month fieldwork in a Rishi Valley Rural Education Centre, Andhra Pradesh (The school is run by Krishnamurti Foundation India) during my MA program.
  What should be the aim of education? Do textbooks and exams help children? Think about your school days. Were you ever hesitant to go to school, only to be sent by your parents anyway? If you reflect on it, (…)

• Story of Raj Narain, the Indian Scocialist | Suresh Khairnar

  15 March 2025, by Suresh Khairnar

  After reading the 512 page book titled "Rajnarayan is not a name but history" edited by my Lucknow friend Shahnawaz Ahmad Qadri, I am writing this article as a self-confession and to review the book. Although Shahnawaz ji had been urging me for a long time to write something on Rajnarayan ji. But whatever I had heard about Rajnarayan ji from the leaders of the Praja Socialist Party of Maharashtra since childhood, he was nothing more than a ridiculous person. But after reading this book, I (…)

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  15 March 2025, by Jawed Naqvi

  COMMUNIST parties in India are quibbling over the characteristics of fascism, wondering if Antonio Gramsci