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In this issue

• Few Questions To those who, during the Bihar election campaign tarred Lalu Prasad Yadav years in Govt as “Jungle Raj” | Suresh Khairnar
• Bihar Assembly election results: Chacha Paltu Ram can no more shake off Modi’s bond | Faraz Ahmad
• The Importance of Being Hidma | Kobad Ghandy
• The spectral presence of Christians in Indian politics | John Dayal
• Pluralism or Partisanship: India’s Vice Presidency on Trial | Albert Smith
• Curious Case of Indian Knowledge System | Narender Nagarwal
• Triumph And Tragedy of India’s Operation Sindoor | Aswini K Ray
• The ‘Eradication’ of Extreme Poverty in Kerala: Reality or Rhetoric | A M Jose & Jos Chathukulam
• The Kerala Model of development and abolition of extreme poverty from the soil of the state | Radhakanta Barik
• Capitalism and ecology: from the decline of capital to the decline of the world | Paul Mattick

IMAGE & SOUND

• Documentary Film: Deccan Queen 1966 | K S Raju (Film Division of India)
• Music: Chop Sticks – Billy Vaughn

Editor’s Picks:

• Summary of Report of The Commission of Enquiry on Assam Disturbances, 1983
• Remembering Verghese Kurien: A Dangerous Daydreamer
• In Mumbai, a corner for the life of the mind
• Gillian Tindall (1938-2025): A Bombay biographer who opened the city’s eyes to its own stories
• History’s burden on Kashmiris
• A Flag Hoisting Shows it Is Again Time to Heed Ambedkar’s Warning
• The Golden Boy
• Monotheism, Certainty, and Baul Persecution in Bangladesh
• The dangerous rise of Buddhist extremism: ‘Attaining nirvana can wait’
• Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
• Full List of Democrats Voting to Condemn Socialism as Mamdani Comes to Town
• Decolonization’ as neoliberal ideology: Anthropological theory and the political economy of the modern university

Books of Note

• The Cell and the Soul: A Prison Memoir Hardcover – 14 September 2025 by Anand Teltumbde (Bloomsbury India, 14 September 2025, 256 pages, ISBN-10: 9369521887; ISBN-13: 978-9369521883 )
• Walking Out, Speaking Up: Feminist Street Theatre in India by Deepti Priya Mehrotra (Zubaan Publishers Pvt Ltd, Aug/2025, ISBN: 9788197673023, 340 Pages)

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