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In this issue:
- Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Dec 20, Dec 27, 2025
- Metamorphosis of the Rural Job Guarantee Scheme | Arup Kumar Sen
- Census 2026 & the Delimitation Debate] | C R Annapurna
- 2025 Kerala Local Body Polls: Spectacular Show by The UDF | M R Biju, M R B Anantha Padmanabha
- The Quiet Theft: How India’s Labour Codes Legalise the Dispossession of Workers | Varna Sri Raman
- The BJP & the Boy with the Fist in the Dyke | Arun Srivastava
- Is Nitish trying to secure his chair in the new BJP-led Bihar | Faraz Ahmad
- Indian Judiciary as Development Constraint: Rhetoric vs. Reality | Nayakara Veeresha
- Delhi’s Elite Tables and the Performance of Belonging | Disha
- The Adivasi Paradigm: Towards an Embedded and Sustainable Economy | Sujit Choudhury
- Indian-American activists battle Hindutva politics | M R Narayan Swamy
- Chile just elected a far-right extremist president who venerates Pinochet, the dictator | Marc Cooper
DOCUMENTS
- NREGA Sangharsh Morcha condemns the repeal of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (MGNREGA) | Dec 19 2025
- CPI(M) seeks withdrawal of VB-GRAMG Bill 16461
- Joint Call for Protest from Left Parties Against Changes in MGNREGA – 22 Dec 2025
- Withdraw Opening the Nuclear industry to the private sector — Statement from IDPD, 13 Dec 2025
- A critique of The Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Bill No. 196 of 2025 | NAAM
IMAGE & SOUND
- Music: Anoushka Shankar ’We Return to Love’ (Live with Alam Khan)
- Documentary: How the British Empire turned colonialism into business
Editor’s Picks:
- Jean Dreze writes: With MGNREGA, India set an example for the world. VB-G RAM G destroys that legacy
- From MGNREGA to RAM G — how the government kills a right
- Bharat Bhushan – Why India More Unequal Than Sub-Saharan Africa
- Rajasthan: Construction of plant billed ‘Asia’s largest ethanol project’ halted in Hanumangarh after violent protests
- Relocations of Hindutva: Hindu Nationalism Under Modi 3.0
- The Vande Mataram Charade: How BJP Weaponises History While India Burns
- How ‘Dhurandhar’ is a prime example of government-embedded filmmaking
- The Great Shamsuddin Family: A Response from Women to an Unofficial Hindu Nation-State in India
- ‘One bad word is enough to be wounded for all eternity’: Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s Nobel lecture
- ‘BJP’s rise in Kerala a serious matter … it is a big threat, Left should find a way to counter it’: CPI leader Binoy Viswam
- Presses fall silent after mobs torch offices of Bangladesh’s top newspapers
- The Movie I was Afraid to See
- When decolonization is hijacked
- The Fantasy of Revolution
- Chile: All the horror of Pinochet’s dictatorship fits on a mother-of-pearl button
* (Coverpage artwork: Stuff, Photo by Harsh Kapoor Dec 25, 2025)
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