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  Iran Stands at a Dangerous Crossroad | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  1 March 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Review of Scheinbaum’s The Darker Side of Social Media | Arun Kumar & Jyoti Yadav

  1 March 2025

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  Music: Philip Glass- Prophecies | Faysal Kadow

  1 March 2025

  Faysal Kadow · Philip Glass-Prophecies

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  Anti Colonial Constitutionalism and the Defence of India

  1 March 2025

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 8, Feb 22, 2025

  22 February 2025

  * Tribute to Vimla Bahuguna | Deepti Mehrotra
  * Developing Inland Waterway Ecosystem in West Bengal | Saumitra Mohan
  * India

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Feb 22, 2025

  22 February 2025

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream
  Religious tourism is not new in India, but it has grown since the 1990s since the mainstreaming of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). BJP which has held power in the regions and at the national level

• BJP Consolidating Political Gains in Odisha | Suranjita Ray

  22 February 2025, by Suranjita Ray

  The BJP government of Mohan Charan Majhi in Odisha is making all possible attempts to consolidate its electoral victory in 2024 after almost a quarter of a century. In order to weaken the long-standing credentials of the Naveen Patnaik-led BJD government, which ruled the state for around two and a half decades and at present is a strong opposition, the Chief Minister has renamed several welfare schemes particularly named after Late Biju Patnaik.
  Although the rights-based approach, as well (…)

• Social Conditions that Lead to Donkey Route Migrations from India | Bharat Dogra

  22 February 2025, by Bharat Dogra

  Recently as several illegal immigrants from India have been deported back to India in US military aircraft, often in handcuffs, this has led to a lot of discussion on dangerous

• Vimla Bahuguna: A Legacy of Radical Dissent and Tough Action | Deepti Priya Mehrotra

  22 February 2025, by Deepti Priya Mehrotra

  Vimla Bahuguna (1932-2025) the educator, environmentalist, activist and leader was an extraordinary phenomenon. Gandhian, feminist and socialist, her approach of caring and non-violence combined with uncompromising opposition to social injustice as well as capitalist development. Thoughtful commitment nourished the life she had chosen. Immersed in constructive work and socio-political activism, her convictions drew her into direct confrontation with state and private agencies. Resisting (…)

• Remembering Tapan Bose | Pritam Singh

  22 February 2025, by Pritam Singh

  The death of Tapan Bose (1946-2025), documentary filmmaker and a leading campaigner for human rights and peace in South Asia, in Delhi on January 30 after a period of illness has been widely mourned by the human rights community in South Asia and beyond. He was more popularly and affectionately known as Tapan Da. My friendship with Tapan Da started over 30 years ago when a friend from London called to say he was coming with an Indian friend, Tapan Bose, to meet me in Oxford. I had already (…)