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• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 18, 2025
• Demand for MG-NREGA work growing, additional budget needed | Bharat Dogra
• Fifty days of Dallewal’s fast | Prem Singh
• Confronting India’s silent killer | Arkaprabha Sau
• The Tata group hounds a whistleblower | Upal Chakraborty
• Escalation of Indian Surveillance in the Indo-Bangladesh Border | Arup Kumar Sen
• Disability, A Lived Experience | Allen David Simon
• Manmohan Singh’s Contribution to India’s Rightward Drift | Arun Kumar
• Battle of ideas, not battle of leaflets | Ash Narain Roy
• Free Speech: A Matter of Debate | Suranjita Ray
• Navigating the Irony of Exceptionalism and Status Dilemma in the India-US-China Strategic Triangle | Musssaib Rasool Mir, Santosh Kumar
• Two Poems | Sagari Chhabra
• We want violence | Rahul Ray
• Beyond the “growth” doctrine | Yavor Tarinski

DOCUMENTS

• AIFUCTO Demands that UGC withdraw the Draft UGC regulation 2025
• Radical Socialist Statement on the Latest Deal Between Israel & Hamas
• CPI statement in solidarity with the people of Cuba | Jan 17, 2025
• 2025 Nuclear-Free Future Awards honour individuals from Brazil, India, Navajo country, the United States and Zimbabwe

BOOKS

• A Sri Lankan officer who even in LTTE custody remained a humanist | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Review of Jane Mumby’s Dismantling the League of Nations | Madeleine Dungy

IMAGE & SOUND

• Poster of Satyajit Ray’s film Ganashatru (1989)
• Music Video: Colwad March at India’s Republic Day parade of 1961
• Video: Reflections on an Interstitial Era by Amitav Ghosh
• Video: A Critique of Decoloniality Theory – Kavish Chetty on Walter D. Mignolo

Editor’s Picks:

• Where Roads End and Courage Begins: The Life and Death of Mukesh Chandrakar
• Resisting transparency, eroding public trust
• What do the Draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 entail?
• Humra Quraishi kindled faith in humanity
• Forests: SC judgement on ‘orans’ a step forward, with some risks
• Sacred Geography
• The Taliban made me marry my boss: how one word led to a forced marriage
• I worked on the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse – here’s what Elon Musk is missing
• Mobile street clinics and harm reduction: pathways to provide care to homeless people in Brazil
• When Do Parties Lie? Misinformation and Radical-Right Populism Across 26 Countries
• On super-exploitation of workers in Chinese factories
• A South African horror story: Illegal mining standoff draws to an end
• Why Are Recurring Dreams Usually Bad Ones?

Books of Note:

• Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta by Alan Barenberg (Yale University Press, Online ISBN: 9780300206821, Print ISBN: 9780300179446 | https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300179446.001.0001)

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