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In this issue:
- Letter to the Readers, Mainstream July 5, 2025 [expected by June 6 ]
- Why India’s poverty decline may not be what it seems | Santosh Mehrotra
- Why Zoran’s NYC Victory Matters to India and the USA | Papri Sen Sri Raman
- Postcolonial Realism and the Gandhian Alternative | Yanis Iqbal
- Ugly is Power. Everybody wants beauty. But nobody asks why | Sunit Singh
- RCB Wins, But Who Really Lost? | Kumar, Jacob
- Prison and Civilising Punishment | Sunita Samal
== Looking back at 1975 Emergency ==
- Reflections on current debates over the 1975 Emergency | Radhakanta Barik
- Indira hatao campaign since 1970 forced her to impose Emergency | Faraz Ahmad
- Dark Shadows of Emergency! | Subhash Gatade
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- Reading Michel Foucault in the Time of Chaos | Arup Kumar Sen
- Bunker Roy’s Own Great Creativity is Overwhelmed by the Creativity he Helped to Find and Release Among the Poorest | Bharat Dogra
- The Silent Tyranny of Gender Norms | Apoorva Pandey
- Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Sounds Death Knell to clean energy Programs | Soma Marla
- Bangladesh Teeters: Yunus’s Next Move? | Bandyopadhyay, Karmakar
- Understanding Munir’s Pakistan | M.R. Narayan Swamy
- Indian Prime Minister’s Stand on Israeli Genocide In Gaza Is Pathetic | P Sudhir
- From economy of occupation to economy of genocide — Report of UN Special Rapporteur, Francesca Albanese (June 30, 2025)
DOCUMENTS:
- CPI Statement Seeks Action on Atrocities on Dalits | July 5, 2025
- Ratify ILO conventions on workplace Safety | AITUC Statement
- Sigachi Factory Tragedy – CPI Demands Justice and Worker Safety
- Letter to CM, Karnataka for Dialogue with Devanahalli Farmers & Withdrawal Land Acquisition Proceedings
- Statement from Scientists Against War and Militarisation of Science | June 29, 2025
BOOKS
- Review of Spy Master & Chief Minister | K S Subramanian
- Review of Takahashi’s Fukushima Futures | James W. Seabrooke III
IMAGE & SOUND:
- Photo: Tennis champ Arthur Ashe & singer Harry Belafonte at 1993 anti-apartheid protest outside the UN in New York
- Video Recording: Making India Work – The Development of Welfare in a Multi-level Democracy | ESCI 2025
- Music: Cat Stevens – Tea For The Tillerman (1970) Part 1
Editor’s Picks
- The Staying Power of India’s Hindu Right
- Nuclear weapons cannot be relied on to keep peace: M V Ramana
- From US Weapons to Nuclear Liability, How Modi Govt Has Turned Its Back on India to Appease Trump
- Troubling Pattern Of Bulldozer Justice: Orissa High Court Orders Recovery Of Rs2 Lakh From Salary Of Tahasildar For Illegal Demolition
- How the uncivility in India’s gated communities is the result of deliberate political design
- Rivers in Deep Time
- Fifty years after Emergency, the new threats to democracy
- The Emergency’s True Legacy: How JP’s Naivety Empowered the RSS
- It’s curious even scientists discard spirit of science in daily life, become unscientific: Nehru
- Trajectories of labour market transitions in the Indian economy
- The Concept of Fascism in Colonial India: M.N. Roy and The Problem of Freedom
- Bangladesh: Are we backtracking on our commitment to gender equality?
- Tehran is not just “LA with minarets”: Against cliches of Third World cities on the brink of disaster
- The Attacks on Zohran Mamdani Show That We Need a New Understanding of Antisemitism
- ’We’re not safe here anymore’ – Syria’s Christians fear for future after devastating church attack
- Palestine through a South African Lens
- A Tax Victory for Multinationals Over People
Books of Note:
- Labors of Division: The Emergence of the Peasant in Colonial Panjab by Navyug Gill (Navyana, ISBN: 9788198067029 )
- Participatory Democratic Innovations in Southeast Europe: How to Engage in Flawed Democracies Edited By Irena Fiket, Cedomir Markov, Vujo Ilic, Gazela Pudar Drasko (Routledge, ISBN 9781032546742 )
- Songs of an Eastern Humanist – Collected Poems by Edward Said. Edited by Timothy Brennan Eris (Columbia University Press, 2024, ISBN: 9781916809970)
* (Coverpage Artwork credits: Robert Delaunay, Rythmes, 1934)
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