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In this Issue:
- Earthquake in Afghanistan: When Customs Kill More Than the Quake | S N Tripathy
- Trump’s Tariffs have Exposed India’s Strategic Weaknesses | Arun Kumar
- The Spectre of Crisis in Moradabad | Arup Kumar Sen
- Disaster Management (Amendment) Act, 2025 – Disowning the Constitutional Duty | Rajan Kshirsagar
- For the state, Umar Khalid and others are worse than heinous criminals | Faraz Ahmad
- Devolution to Panchayats in the States: Experiences of Three Decades | Mahi Pal
- Dadabhai Naoroji at 200: The Grand Old Man Who Exposed an Empire’s Loot | Santhosh Mathew
- Regulating AI in Indian Social Science Research, Teaching and Publications: Balancing Innovation and Ethics | Adfer Rashid Shah
- The Dark Side of Meme Culture: Arjun Kapoor’s Trolling and the Game of Traction | Kaleem Ullah Fasihi
- Crossroads of Conflict: Chittagong and Rakhine Province in Turmoil | Manas Mukul Bandyopadhyay
- USSR: G. T. Myasnikov’s 1921 memo to the Central Committee | Jairus Banaji
- 1980 KGB Memo Regarding the Planning of a Demonstration in Memory of John Lennon
BOOKS
- Book Excerpt: The Himalayan Blunder that Began in the 1960s
- Review of The Lion of Naushera | M.R. Narayan Swamy
IMAGE & SOUND
- Cartoon: If Only We had Learned of Drainage from our Past, Our Cities Wont be Drowning Today | Sandeep Adhwaryu in the Times of India
- Photo: Workers at Beijing petrol refinery by Liu Heung Shing, (1980)
- Music: Electric Sanj by Ustad Noor Bakhsh from Balochistan
- Video: How to Survive Authoritarianism: Interview with Arundhati Roy
- Video: Constitution, democracy under attack in Kashmir – Interview with Comrade Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami
Editor’s Picks:
- In Rahul’s Call For ’Vote Adhikar’, an Echo of Mahatma Gandhi’s Struggle For Voting Rights of Indians
- An EPIC exclusion
- Irrational model
- Undemocratic: Urdu Orgs Condemn Deferment of Javed Akhtar Event After Islamic Groups’ Protests
- Banke Bihari corridor shows how urban planning bodies are being harnessed to drive religious tourism
- Suicides among Kerala’s public servants
- The Dubai of South America’: how the promise of riches from lithium mining turned to dust in Bolivia
- Critical Theory and Radical Psychoanalysis: Rethinking the Marcuse-Fromm Debate
- Ghana: The Victors and the Spoils
- When Scythe Met Stone:: The October Revolution and the Factory Committees
- Palestine recognition: the principle the EU has been stuck on for decades
- Global Call From Scientists to End the Crisis in Gaza
- Video of Speech by Natasa Pirc Musar, the President of Slovenia on Gaza
- L-theanine: Can a compound in tea lower anxiety and help you focus?
Books of Note:
- Polish Sexual Revolutions: Negotiating Sexuality and Modernity behind the Iron Curtain by Anna Dobrowolska (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2025 https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198962878.001.0001; Print ISBN: 9780198962885)
- Comrades and Comebacks: The Battle of the Left to Win the Indian Mind | Indian Political History, Left-Wing Ideologies, Freedom Struggle to 21st Century Politics by Saira Shah Halim (Penguin Books)
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