2025

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AMU: Institution of Learning or Identity
by Anil Maheshwari and Arjun Maheshwari
Ink/Occam
Pages: xvii + 431; Price: Rs 899
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Anil Maheshwari, the lead author I know, is as secular an Indian as one can be. The book recognises, and rightly so, how the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has come under repeated and unfair attacks from the Hindu Right because of its Islamic character. The authors are against the Modi government

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Hiroshima-75: Nuclear Issues in Global Contexts
by Aya Fujiwara, David R. Marples, eds.
ibidem Verlag, 2020. 307 pp.
(paper), ISBN 978-3-8382-1398-9
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Reviewed by Jonathan Runnels (Air University, Air War College)
In 2020, Aya Fujiwara and David R. Marples published Hiroshima-75, an edited collection commemorating the seventy-fifth anniversary of dropping the nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The (…)

* Unravelling of Dystopian Reality In Trumpian World | Vijay Kumar
* Why Double Standards of Justice in India? | Sumeet Singh
* Chancellor Office Debate & a Vote for Personalisation without Privatisation | S Ramamurthy
* PUCL Statement on the Stampede at Maha Kumbh Mela

Letter to the Readers, Mainstream
In April 2023, the UN Population Fund revealed that India had overtaken China in population numbers. It was odd that an external entity provided these population figures, while, India

The successive victories of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) soon after its nominal loss in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, first in Haryana, then Maharashtra and now in Delhi have caused only despondency among all those who look at the BJP as a divisive, communal, force led by an unapologetic authoritarian leader Narendra Modi, out to fulfil the dream of his Alma Mater the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on its on its centenary year. And if the BJP wins, by hook or crook Bihar by the end of (…)

Space of universities is facing a crisis of its own

As CEC Rajiv Kumar retires, his legacy casts a dark cloud
On January 7, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar assured the country that

In the Delhi Assembly elections, BJP defeated the Aam Aadmi Party by winning 48 seats out of 70 on 8th February 2025. It is the outcome of BJP’s five-year agenda after AAP’s win in 2019. The BJP may not have taken AAP seriously after its win in 2015, though it started using the Lt Governor to its advantage from the very beginning. But after AAP’s consecutive win in Delhi in 2019 and then winning two seats in Goa, 92 seats out of 117 in Punjab and five seats in Gujarat; BJP felt APP was a (…)

According to the Indian Constitution, both Central and State governments have a constitutional duty to guarantee the democratic rights of citizens, including their Freedom, Equality, Security, Prosperity, Development, Social justice, and Social protection. Although India claims to be the world

Shrimati Nirmala Sitaram presented her eighth budget in succession on 1st February 2025. The Budget in her words continues the Government