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In this issue

• What Lessons from the Wrecking Ball in Nepal – Letter to the Readers
• Nepal’s 2025 Crisis: Causes, Dynamics, and Impacts | Dewendra Pratap Tiwari
• Decoding Nepal Unrest From the Perspectives of Raja Ram Mohan Roy, B R Ambedkar & K R Narayanan | S N Sahu
• What’s With the Sept 2025 Youth Uprising in Kathmandu | Radhakanta Barik
• The Moran angst – should the BJP worry? | Swaswati Borkataki
• Interrogating the Notion of ‘Justice’ | Arup Kumar Sen
• These Nurses Contribute to the Health of Remote Villages | Bharat Dogra
• Can a Cooperative of India’s Taxi Drivers pose a challenge to Uber & such
• On the need to address the Israeli attacks on the UN system | S Faizi
• Who will bell the Israeli cat? | Faraz Ahmad
• Rightwing-Rightwing Bhai Bhai: Who fears Javed Akhtar? | Subhash Gatade
• What is happening in our schools and homes? | Rajeshwar Mishra
• Categorising Speech & the Crisis of Democratic Discourse in India? | Ayush Mazumdar
• Shireen | Sagari Chhabra
• Potential for Cooperatives in Kerala | D Sajith Babu, Vijayakumar S, Jos Chathukulam
• 100 years of RSS —India’s right-wing mothership | Ram Puniyani
• Structural Roots of Student Violence | Bhabani Shankar Nayak
• When Towers Fell, the World Order Crumbled: 9/11 at 25 | Santosh Mathew
• 1976-78 Movement of Worker’s Assemblies in Spain | Miguel Amoros

DOCUMENTS

• What PM cannot achieve, Meitei & Kuki-Zo groups can | Socialist Party India
• CPI Statement on the GenZ Protests and Situation in Nepal
• CPM on Nepal Turmoil
• France Rises Up: Nationwide Strikes Against Macron’s Austerity and Rising Far-Right Threat — Statement from CPI-ML Liberation
• Letter from Indian CSOs Challenging ADB’s Proposed Support for Nuclear Energy

BOOKS

• Cochin Port Sounds Wake Up Call for Kerala | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Why Haruki Murakami’s The Strange Library Speaks to Our Fears of Democracy Today | Disha
• Bliss on Jaffary, ’Abortion in Mexico: A History

IMAGE & SOUND

• Caricature: Tribute to Sankarshan Thakur| Jayaraj Vellur
• Documentary: The Bhutto Saga or Politics in the Blood (2011) | Arnaud Mandagaran
• Music: Mean Old Frisco | Eric Clapton (1977)

Editor’s Picks:

• The Importance of Sankarshan Thakur (1962-2025)
• Why is the Centre dragging its feet on autonomy for Ladakh?
• ’Can’t dance with tears in eyes’: Kuki-Zo groups oppose grand welcome ceremony for PM Modi in Manipur
• Arunachal activist stopped at Delhi airport, barred from flying to Dublin over dam protest
• In Bengaluru’s Libraries, a Picture of all That is Wrong in Our Models of Employment
• Elephant herd rallies to rescue calf from raging river in Uttarakhand
• India’s Anuparna Roy on Venice Debut ‘Songs of Forgotten Trees’
• How a Jewish woman from Berlin became Jamia’s beloved ‘Aapa Jaan’
• Bangladesh: Badruddin Umar – a life of radical intransigence
• Nepal’s horrific reckoning with its failed political class
• Power, Control, Inequality, and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century
• The German Peasants’ War: 500 years later
• Russian Communist Party (KPRF) repudiates Nikita Khrushchev’s 1956 speech denouncing Josef Stalin’s cult of personality, the executions, the Gulag labour camps
• In New Book, Think Tank Behind Project 2025 Takes On the Constitution
• Israel has replaced Iran as the biggest security threat to the Gulf states

Books of Note:

• Contesting the Far Right: A Psychoanalytic and Feminist Critical Theory Approach by Claudia Leeb (Columbia University Press, April 2024, 336 Pages | ISBN: 9780231213073)
• A Wide Net of Solidarity available via. https://dukeupress.edu/a-wide-net-of-solidarity
• The Hard Work of Hope: A Memoir by Michael Ansara (Cornell University Press, 2025)

* (Cover page artwork credits: Franciska Clausen, Cercle et carre 1929)

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