Mainstream Weekly

Table of Contents, Mainstream, Nov 2, 2026

2026-11-02T00:46:22Z

* The Jevons Paradox: From Damodar to Teesta | Sujit Choudhury
* Public Debt is Not Just about Numbers | Sagnik Bagchi, Sayantan Bandhu Majumder
* Poverty & deprivation shaped Lula da Silva's politics | M.R. Narayan Swamy

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Table of Contents, Mainstream, Oct 22, 2026

2026-10-22T09:48:03Z

* Uttar Pradesh Police fast losing its Credibility | Sandeep Pandey and Shashank Singh
* Hamara paisa, hamara hisaab | Varna Sri Raman
* Economic Growth vs. Social Justice: The Post-Liberalisation Dilemma in India | Nithya N.R
* Societal collapse of sense making | Sunil Ray

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Table of Contents, Mainstream, Oct 8, 2026

2026-10-07T23:53:28Z

* Subversion of Credibility of the Election Commission | Arup Kumar Sen
* Jantar Mantar !! | Radhakanta Barik
* The CJP Phenomenon | Sukla Sen
* After three decades of voting, I went off the voter rolls! | M.R. Narayan Swamy
* Why India needs education on reproductive health | Mohini Yadav
* On A Curious Case of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study | Arup Maharatna

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Table of Contents, Mainstream, Sept 20, 2026

2026-09-19T23:36:58Z

* Chandsi Tales |Tarun Basu
* We are Apolitical | Sanjay Kumar
* Evaluating Ideas, Ideals of University or Higher Education | Arup Mahratna
* IPSN letter to BRICS summit 2026
* Clock time, life-time | John Holloway

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Table of Contents, Mainstream, Sept 8, 2026

2026-09-08T04:05:31Z

* The Toto Paradox of West Bengal: Moving People, Stalling Aspirations | Abhijit Ghosh
* Dimagi Naxal: A Dog Whistle that Undermines Chances of Becoming Vishwaguru | Arun Kumar
* Letter to Chief Minister of UP regarding illegal house arrest of leaders, workers of the Communist Party of India
Form-of-Life | Giorgio Agamben

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Table of Contents, Mainstream, Aug 25, 2026

2026-08-25T03:50:22Z

* Some Materials On Gandhi And Business | Anil Nauriya
* Jadavpur University is the Target Now | Arup Kumar Sen
* Low pay has a long political memory | Pritam Singh & Bill MacKeith
* AITUC Statement on the Supreme Court's Jai Bir Singh Judgment

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Table of Contents, Mainstream, Aug 15, 2026

2026-08-15T09:18:37Z

* Targeting Muslim Protesters as Anti-Nationals | Arup Kumar Sen
* PM Bhargava the scientist with a spine — Excerpts from his biography
* Learning from the past of India's forests | Dinesh C Sharma
* Diagnoses of the Dance | Emanuel Eisenberg (1934)

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Table of Contents, Mainstream, Jul 30, 2026

2026-07-29T22:04:22Z

* The 100-year Project: Planned Steps to Subvert Education | Papri Sen Sri Raman
* The Jantar Mantar Protests Were All About Accountability | Indira Jaising, Pratik Patnaik
* Scientists Exodus, A Loss For ISRO, Gain of Private Sector | Soma Marla
* Four Years After NEP 2020: What AISHE 2023–24 Reveals About India's Higher Education | Sunit Singh

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Table of Contents, Mainstream, Jul 15, 2026

2026-07-14T18:18:57Z

* ¨Women Counted as “Employed” — But Actually Unpaid Family Workers | Deepa Palathingal, Palak Kunwar
* The RSS Registration Controversy: A Footnote | Partha S. Ghosh
* Beyond Choice: Why Education Policy Must Serve the Common Good? | Adama Srinivas Reddy
* The Mirage of India's 'Nuclear Renaissance' | K Sahadevan

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Table of Contents, Mainstream, Jun 25, 2026

2026-06-24T23:59:20Z

* Assessment of PM Modi's 12 Years of Rule | Arun Kumar
* The Commemoration of 250 Years of Epochal Declaration of The American Independence In A Time of Backsliding of Democracy | Vijay Kumar
* Loyalty without leverage: India's US tilt yields little | Anuradha Chenoy
* End the “Green” Delusions: Industrial-scale Renewable Energy is Fossil Fuel+ | Alexander Dunlap

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SIR: The Mega Assault on "India" : The Story So Far | Sukla Sen

Sukla Sen — 2026-11-01T22:20:00Z

Prologue
AA. Early Warnings:
I/II. Make no mistake.
It's an attempted mega-assault on the "India" that was brought into being by the epic Indian freedom struggle on August 15 1947, the day when the shackle of foreign colonial rule was finally shaken off.
Arguably, the most major as yet.
Universal adult franchise, along with "free" election, every five years or so, is one of the very cornerstones of the Indian political system — its much vaunted, even if flawed, electoral (…)

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Bhagwat just a puppet of Ventriloquist Modi | Faraz Ahmad

Faraz Ahmad — 2026-11-01T22:16:00Z

For long fellow journalists have been reassuring us sceptics that it is the Rashtirya Swayam Sevak Sangh (RSS) which will soon unseat Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Man Friday Union Home Minister Amitbhai Shah for the two are becoming a liability to the RSS.
I have never taken this bait and the latest Vijay Dashmi address of RSS Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat has only proved me right insofar as it showed how Bhagwat faithfully echoed whatever said or did.
Mohan Bhagwat's traditional (…)

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Public Debt is Not Just about Numbers: It Is About Institutions Too | Sagnik Bagchi and Sayantan Bandhu Majumder

2026-11-01T22:15:00Z

Abstract
In the last decade and a half, public debt has surged globally, and the World Bank classifies it not as a debt wave but rather a “tsunami”. This article attempts to underscore the importance of a country's formal and particularly quality of informal institution in shaping its sovereign debt. Our results reveal that countries with better-quality formal institutions need not necessarily manage debt well, but stronger informal institutions, in the form of social trust, are of pivotal (…)

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Autonomy Undone: Symbolic Subordination and the Fragility of Tribal Self-Governance in Meghalaya

Jos Chathukulam — 2026-11-01T22:10:00Z

Abstract
The practice in Meghalaya whereby Chief Executive Members (CEMs) of the state's three Autonomous District Councils (ADCs) are sworn into office by District Commissioners (DCs) of their headquarter districts points to a significant disjuncture between constitutional design and administrative practice. The Sixth Schedule envisages ADCs as autonomous institutions of self-governance, vested with legislative, executive, and judicial authority. However, the ritualized precedence (…)

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The Jevons Paradox: From Damodar to Teesta | Sujit Choudhury

Sujit Choudhury — 2026-11-01T22:10:00Z

Keywords : Damodar, Teesta, Jevons Paradox, Energy Economy, Sustainable Development, Hydroelectricity, DVC, Jharkhand, Sikkim
Jevons Paradox
Damodar and Teesta are two important rivers in eastern India, although they are from two very different eras and geographies of India. The Damodar rises from the ancient Chotanagpur Plateau and flows eastward across the Gangetic plains before joining the Hooghly River. The Teesta, in contrast, originates from the glacial mountains of the Himalayas, (…)

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Women, Work and the Daily Commute: Insights from the NHTS | Vandana Sehgal

2026-11-01T21:44:31Z

The National Statistics Office (NSO) has recently released the factsheet of its first-ever National Household Travel Survey (NHTS). The survey covers more than 4.9 lakh households for the period July 2025 to June 2026. The survey aims at providing information on how people actually move: where they travel, how far, by what means and at what cost. The factsheet highlights that two-wheelers are the single largest primary mode of transport for workers across India, accounting for 42.6% of (…)

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Protecting Worker Interests in the Daily Labour Markets | Yatish Kumar

2026-11-01T21:38:00Z

INDIA OCCUPIES A strategic position in the global workforce market due to its skilled workforce, and an expanding consumer market. India's growth underpins GDP growth performance in Southern Asia, ‘a sub-region whose GDP is said to have grown by 6.2 per cent in 2024 and by 5.8 per cent in 2025'. Worldwide, over 61.20 per cent of employment, more than 2 billion people, is in the informal economy (ILO, 2018).
The majority of India's workforce operates within the informal sector, where the (…)

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Issues after 60 years' Growth Story of Haryana | Sher Singh Sangwan

2026-11-01T21:30:00Z

Haryana is one of the fastest-developing states of India, and it has been politically vibrant too due to its location around the National Capital. It was carved from erstwhile Punjab on 1st November 1966 and at that time, its territory was relatively lagging in agriculture, industry and even services from the combined Punjab But after becoming a separate state, its growth rate has surpassed most of other states, including neighbour Punjab, due to the octopus spirit of some of its (…)

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A Note on Prakash Thapaliyal's Hindi Short Story ‘Chani' | Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal

2026-11-01T21:25:00Z

A symbiotic relationship exists between the humans, particularly the women, leading a spontaneous life away from the din of urban noise and the Mother Nature itself. These rural folk and forest dwellers are the true descendants of Wordsworth's Michael and the Solitary Reaper, living in close proximity with nature. Like Michael, they know the ‘meaning of all winds' and ‘the heart of many thousand mists'.
As one moves away from the core forest towards towards the cities, this relationship (…)

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Poverty and deprivation shaped Lula da Silva's politics | M.R. Narayan Swamy

M R Narayan Swamy — 2026-11-01T21:21:00Z

For a very long time, his only companions were grinding poverty and a constant challenge to see food on the table. He himself may not have known that these early struggles to survive would shape Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to become one of the most respected socialist leaders in the world.
On October 26, Lula, now 81, stunned Brazil and much of the world alike by coming from behind to overcome strong opposition from the Trump-backed Flavio Bolsonaro by taking 51.8 per cent of all the votes (…)

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France and Europe: A Crisis of Transition to Service Society in 21st Century | Anil Rajimwale

Anil Rajimwale — 2026-11-01T21:21:00Z

The recent upsurge in France and Europe reflect deep underlying processes of transition from industrial to service society in 21st century. France is a rich country, culturally, politically, philosophically, and also economically, known for outstanding thinkers from Saint Simon and Charles Fourier to Sartre to Andre Malraux and Maurice Thorez, Jacques Duclos and of people like Romain Rolland who left their indelible mark on modern history.
It has a wide kaleidoscope of powerful (…)

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Stop Privatisation of IDBI — Joint Statement from Trade Unions (Nov 1, 2026)

2026-11-01T21:19:00Z

JOINT PLATFORM OF CENTRAL TRADE UNIONS
PRESS RELEASE
1st November 2026 | New Delhi
Stop IDBI Privatisation —defend public ownership and economic sovereignty
Investigate reported irregularities, suspend the sale and make all the transaction documents public
The Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions strongly condemns the Government's decision to transfer the combined controlling stake of the Government of India and the Life Insurance Corporation in IDBI Bank to a foreign-controlled (…)

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