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Mainstream, Vol 63 No 51-52 December 20 & December 27 2025

Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Dec 20, Dec 27, 2025

Sunday 21 December 2025

A welfare state modeled on ideals of social responsibility & respect for rights ceding ground to private business interests and cost cutting

In the last session of Parliament as the year 2025 winds to an end, the Modi Government rushed through legislation (all named in Hindi much to the displeasure of parliamentarians from non-hindi speaking states) that has far reaching consequences without much debate. There was ’The Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill, 2025’ that does away with the decades old University Grants Commission (UGC) the regulatory body that oversaw higher education and has raised concerns over non respect for a federalist representation in the proposed structures governing higher education; then the ’SHANTI