* Champion Nuclear Disarmament - Open Letter to Rahul Gandhi | K. Sahadevan
* Tribute to Gargi Chakravartty — Scholar & Comrade | Satyaki Chakraborty
* War Is Too Serious A Business To Be Left To One Man | Vijay Kumar
* How Political Opportunism Is Cannibalising the Tamil Future | Aruliniyan Mahalingam
* The Downside of Screen Time | Martha Rosenberg
* Man Made Language | Dale Spender
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Table of Contents, Mainstream, Mar 8, 2026
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Letter to the Readers, Mainstream — The war on Iran its world wide reverberations
8 MarchA 76-year-old politician brainwashed a 79-year-old right-wing businessman to kill a 86-year-old religious leader on 1 March 2026. Who else died? A hundred and sixty-five little girls (7-12 year-olds) at the Minab primary school, a civilian site admitted by an official US investigation. On 4 March, a US submarine torpedoes an Iranian warship
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Tribute: Gargi Chakravartty stood out with her scholarship and commitment | Satyaki Chakraborty
8 March(India Press Agency, March 3, 2026) Dr. Gargi Chakravartty, eminent historian and a leading figure of the National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) passed away in Kolkata on March 2. She was 78. Her husband famous journalist Sumit Chakravartty passed away only last year. She has left behind a son who is a television mediaperson with Prasar Bharti.
Gargi, called Tanya in her younger days, was the daughter of one of the lading communist families of the undivided Bengal. Her mother was (…) -
Champion Nuclear Disarmament - An Open Letter to Opposition Leader Rahul Gandhi Invoking the Legacy of Rajiv Gandhi’s Action Plan in a Time of Heightened Nuclear Peril | K. Sahadevan
8 March, by K. SahadevanDear Rahul Gandhi,
You are well aware that tensions between two nuclear-armed states are escalating toward the brink of war. I am writing this letter for two primary reasons. First, I am convinced of the futility of expecting a regime obsessed with extreme warmongering to take the initiative for nuclear disarmament. Second, I wish to remind you of the Action Plan for a Nuclear-Weapon-Free and Non-Violent World Order presented by your esteemed father, Rajiv Gandhi, nearly four decades ago. (…) -
War Is Too Serious A Business To Be Left To One Man | Vijay Kumar
8 March, by Vijay KumarWe are in the midst of mini-World War after Putin
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JVP disowns earlier ideological anathema for India | M.R. Narayan Swamy
8 March, by M R Narayan SwamyA top leader of Sri Lanka
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Nepal
8 MarchA political shift driven by youth aspirations, anti-corruption sentiment, and the search for accountable governance in Nepal
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Peace without Justice is a Fragile Calm in Manipur | Kham Sian Muan, Thangmoi Haokip, Stephen Khammuonlal
8 MarchToday, Manipur looks calm! President
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What’s common between Trump, Modi and Netanyahu | Faraz Ahmad
8 March, by Faraz AhmadIf there is one thing common between US President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanyahu and our very dear Prime Minister Narendrabhai Damodardas Modi it is megalomania.
The Oxford English dictionary describes a megalomaniac as a person with an inflated sense of self-importance, power, and grandiosity, often believing himself to be superior, with extraordinary abilities, and an obsessive need for control, stemming from psychological condition like narcissistic (…) -
On Writing and not Writing as a Matter of Practice | Sreedeep Bhattacharya
8 MarchAnti-adda as an Academic Stance
Recently, Professor Surinder Singh Jodhka officially ‘retired’ from Jawaharlal Nehru University—an event that academia likes to treat as both real and entirely fictional. After all, we are trained early on to believe that a ‘true scholar’ never retires; they simply stop drawing salary for doing the same amount of work or more.
If that cliché must be invoked, it might as well be in Jodhka’s case. Few in the discipline have matched his propensity to keep (…)
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