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In this issue:

• Letter to the readers, Mainstream
• Letter from Colin Gonzalves over refusal of enquiry into murder of Ankita
• Hindutva Hooliganism in the Odisha Legislative Assembly | Bhabani Shankar Nayak
• The Lokpal Debate: A Threat to Judicial Independence? | Ahmed Raza
• When NGOs are Killed | Aishwarya Bhuta
• India’s left-right centenary | Jawed Naqvi
• Schooling or Struggle: A Reflection on Rural Schools | Sunit Singh
• Story of Raj Narain, the Indian Socialist | Suresh Khairnar
• James Bond has returned to international politics | Ash Narain Roy
• Indo-US relations under the Trump Presidency 2.0 | P. S. Jayaramu
• Global Right-Wing Consolidation and the Fight? | D. Raja
• Sri Lanka: The NPP Government & Its Democratic Promise? | Jayadeva Uyangoda
• How the Modi Government is Towing the American Line | Radhakanta Barik
• Philippines: Arrest of Ex-President Duterte raises wider questions about the War on Drugs | Bharat Dogra
• Amartya’s Inadequate Grasp of Marx’s Philosophical Insights | Mark Lindley

DOCUMENTS:

• EGI statement on arrest of Hyderabad-based journalist

BOOKS:

• Why Alternative Development Paradigm Matters? | Jos Chathukulam

IMAGE & SOUND:

• 1934 Telephone Maps of India
• Video: Gujaratis – A Journey Through History, Culture, Billionaires & Cricket with Salil Tripathi| on Cyrus Says
• Music: Mascaram Setaba by Mulatu Astatke (1972)

Editor’s Picks

• Travelling Through India on the Himsagar Express
• RSS activists in Kerala illegally detain Gandhi’s Great Grandson
• Guns down
• Report on Israel’s systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since 7 October 2023
• ‘My career is over’: Columbia University scientists hit hard by Trump team’s cuts
• In Japan, a Journalist Takes a Stand by Striking Out on His Own
• Nitroglycerin-responsive gene switch for the on-demand production of therapeutic proteins
• Seven ways to improve your sleep according to science

Books of Note

• Colonial Vocabularies: Teaching and Learning Arabic, 1870-1970. Editors: Sarah Irving, Karène Sanchez Summerer, Rachel Mairs, Lucia Admiraal (Amsterdam University Press, 2025, Hardback ISBN 9789048560394)
• The Young Person’s Illustrated Guide to American Fascism by Sue Coe and Stephen F. Eisenman. (OR Books, 2025. 200 pages, Paperback ISBN 9781682196113, E-book ISBN 9781682196120)