Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 20, May 17, 2025

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream [expected on May 18,19, 2025]
• India - Pakistan: Will this ceasefire last | Faraz Ahmad
• How can India & Pakistan Avoid High Risk Situations in Future | Bharat Dogra
• Statesmanship, not rhetoric, is the need of the hour | Arun Mitra
• India’s Indus bargain needs a cohesive strategy, not coercion | Medha Bisht
• The CAA and the Eroded Public Sphere: A Media Content Analysis through Chomsky and Habermas | Sunit Singh and Anjali Sidhwani
• Take a Break | Pratibha Pandya (Adapted by L K Sharma)
• Seeking A Way | Sagari Chhabra
• India’s First Metadata case: Endless Indiscriminate Electoral Surveillance Part 11 | Gopal Krishna
• What Monarchy’s Return in Nepal will Mean for India | Manas Mukul Bandyopadhyay & Gouri Sankar Nag
• Obituary: The Death of Joseph Nye Sounds Requiem For Soft Power | Vijay Kumar

DOCUMENTS:

• Feminists from India and Pakistan Issue Urgent Call for Peace and Dialogue
• Joint Statement from a Platform of India’s Trade Unions (May 15, 2025)

BOOKS

• A Gripping Saga of India’s Most Sensational Crime | M.R. Narayan Swamy

IMAGE & SOUND

• Caricature: Tribute to Jose Mojica (former President of Uruguay) | Jayaraj Vellur
• Video: The ecological face of the commune form | Kristin Ross
• Music: Les Pieds En Haut avec Akka | Oud: Simon Le Garff & Riq: Akka Abbasi

Editor’s Picks:

• India’s ‘new normal’ of perpetual war will damage its democracy
• India should look beyond Modi
• Missing Police in Pahalgam: Who is Responsible for this Biggest Breach of Public Security?
• India’s Alleged Secret ‘Rendition’ of Rohingya Refugees
• India’s broadcast media wage war on their audience
• Nuclear War Avoided, But Next Time?
• In Search of Almas Ali
• If you were shocked by my film on Israeli settlers in the West Bank, you haven’t been paying attention
• How China is quietly aiding Israel’s settlement enterprise
• Russia’s False Euphoria

Books of Note:

• Public Health and Federalism in India: Dissonant Discourses
  Edited by Balveer Arora, Mohan Rao (Routledge India, 2025, ISBN 9781032451688)

* (Cover Page artwork credits: Nicolas Schoffer — Sans titre)