NB: The Indian Army has always been the most visibly secular part of the Indian establishment; commanding maximum trust among the public in times of communal unrest. It is a tragic and extremely dangerous move on the part of the ruling party to try and influence the Armed Forces with their political ideology. It is… Read More The Indian Army’s Visible Adherence to the Majority Religion Can No Longer Be Ignored
Date ; 07/12/2025 Dear Friends! Khudai Khidmatgar announces 7th Ankit Junaid social harmony award for the year 2025 . In the year of September 2018, Khudai Khidmatgar launched the Social Harmony Award and fellowship in memory of Hafiz Junaid and Ankit Saxena. Junaid was Killed brutally in a train two days before… Read More Asrar and Arjun have been selected for the 7th Ankit-Junaid Harmony Award 2025
++++++Readers outside of India can donate hereto support Mainstream Weeklyhttps://tinyurl.com/2rsy4ss6++++++ 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… Read More Mainstream, Dec 6, 2025
NB: There seems to be Sino-Indian unity on torturing the innocent. DS Arrested in 2013 on India’s Himalayan border after fleeing Beijing’s ‘genocide’ against Muslims in Xinjiang, the siblings have been imprisoned indefinitely ever since then On the evening of 12 June 2013, according to court documents, three “Chinese intruders” were arrested by the Indian… Read More How three Uyghur brothers fled China – to spend 12 years in an Indian prison
The tragic fate of the Indian Statistical Institute G S Seda (cut and pasted from his Facebook page) Just as the BJP government, and its apologists, were gloating over 8.2% GDP growth during Q2, the IMF’s verdict came in quietly but landed like a thud: India’s economic data downgraded to Category C—the second-worst grade, reserved… Read More Mahalanobis Built It. Modi Broke It
Readers outside of India can donate hereto support Mainstream Weeklyhttps://tinyurl.com/2rsy4ss6++++++ 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… Read More Mainstream, November 29, 2025
NB: Anyone with the faintest idea of what is happening to Indian education will understand the importance of this book by this esteemed and highly accomplished scholar. The policies of our rulers can be described as nothing less than assault on education. Government enthusiasts could ask themselves why every year, hundreds of thousands of Indian… Read More Scholar GN Devy asks whether India risks becoming an anti-knowledge nation
Praveen Swami Elegantly dressed in an impeccably draped sari, a brilliant diamond tiara discreetly placed on her head, Crown Princess Sarvath El Hassan flitted from New York soirees to diplomatic dinners. The daughter of the eminent Kolkata-born Pakistani diplomat Muhammad Ikramullah and his wife, writer Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, the Crown Princess had never played down… Read More Rajnath Singh is discovering India-Pakistan civilisational ties
Over a decade ago, a young IAS officer deployed in Bastar told this reporter that as much as they wanted Bastar to be freed from the Naxals, their ouster from the jungle would immediately lead to it being taken over by mining companies. Ashutosh Bhardwaj As the Maoist insurgency reaches its fag end with the… Read More As Naxalism Fades, Adivasi Futures Still Stand on Precarious Ground
In this issue Bihar’s Two Democracies: Where Women Fought Back & Where Hate Politics Won | Varna Sri Raman Lobbying Games: RSS connections in America | Ram Puniyani Congress Needs Introspection | Ishrat Husain Expectations from COP 30 | Soma Marla Globalisation And Dis-Location of Politics | Sunita Samal Trump Presidency: Ex-Jihadist is Welcome, Not a Democrat | M.R. Narayan Swamy… Read More Mainstream, November 22, 2025
