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In this issue

• Letter to Readers – Overarching sway of Hindutva [delayed]
• What is Happening in the Kashmir Valley Now? | Arup Kumar Sen
• An Analysis of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act in the Aftermath of Meitei-Kuki Violence in Manipur | Kham Sian Muan, Thangmoi Haokip
• Why the RSS-BJP Juggernaut Needs a Political Seawall – Part 1 | Arun Srivastava
• Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 must be withdrawn It ignores workers’ health | Arun Mitra
• Why Gen Z’s Campus Left Lacks the Courage to Act | Nawaal Arshad
• Manufacturing Steel & Chaos: On the Capitalist Pressure to Extract in Odisha – Part 1 | Ranjana Padhi
• Obituary: James Watson (1928-2025) | Jos Chathukulam
• So Long As the Father Is the Law, Mothers Must Be Outlaws | Sarah Harpy

DOCUMENTS:

• All India Kisan Sabha Press Release on ITPGRFA & Seed Bill 2025
• IndiGo Crisis Exposes Dangers of Monopoly Formation and Regulatory Failure: CPI

BOOKS

• Review of Ohman, Carl, The Afterlife of Data | Tanya Goyal

IMAGE & SOUND

• Video: Understanding France’s special brand of state secularism
• Music: Red River Valley – Billy Vaughn

Editor’s Picks:

• ’IMF Concerns Justified; India’s GDP Calculation Less Than Reliable’: Arun Kumar and Pronab Sen
• Modi’s Selective Reading of Gandhi Turns Duties Into a Tool of Authoritarianism
• The Red Sunset: Analysing the Decline of the CPI (Maoist)
• Invisible victims of Maoist conflict
• On December 6, minister crosses red lines
• Media in the time of Modi
• Forgotten photos reveal women who powered India’s freedom struggle
• Economic Impacts Of The Ditwah Cyclone Disaster In Sri Lanka
• Each time a fire engulfs a slum, it spotlights deeper problems in Dhaka’s growth
• A British witness to Bangladesh genocide: Val Harding’s 1971 story
• Everything Is Becoming a Bank
• ’I don’t want to be part of this war machine’: Young Germans protest against military service plans
• Russia: Marxists face 20-year sentences for studying Lenin’s “State and Revolution”!
• The Long Downturn and Its Political Results
• The Judge at the End of Europe

Books of Note

• Jacques Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis: Reflections on Seminar XVII Edited by Justin Clemens, Russell Grigg (Duke University Press, May 1, 2006)
• Announced: The Man Who Made Plants Write Essays by Jagadish Chandra Bose – Translated by Sumana Roy (Yale University Press, 144 Pages, Hardcover 9780300278408, 17 Mar 2026)