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

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

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 (…)

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 (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 (…)

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 (…)

A friend of mine, still an active reporter, told some of us soon after the swearing in of the new chief minister of Delhi Rekha Gupta that she is the choice of the Sarsanghchalkak of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Mohan Bhagwat. Maybe. I really don

Exactly seventy-eight years ago, on August 15, 1947, India attained freedom from British colonial rule, after decades of protracted struggle, which witnessed thousands of Indians sacrificing their lives, but ironically the protagonist of the rightist politics Narendra Modi, who claims to be the true nationalist, is on the mission to turn India into a colony of USA ruled by his rightist friend Donald Trump.
Putting a curb on illegal migration has been a major issue for Trump, but he is (…)