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
United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Amnesty International has said Israel is “still committing genocide” against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, despite the ceasefire agreed last month.The fragile, US-brokered truce between Israel and Hamas came into effect on 10 October, after two years of war. “The ceasefire risks creating a dangerous illusion… Read More Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says / Israeli forces shoot Palestinians dead after surrender
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
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
María Ramírez Franco’s Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936 – by Jeremy Treglown Reviewed by Jeremy Adelman On August 19, 1936, militiamen loyal to General Francisco Franco murdered Spain’s famous poet and dramatist Federico García Lorca. Afterward, one of the killers, the Falangist Juan Trecastro, burst into a local bar and said, “We’ve just… Read More Spain: Emerging from the Labyrinth / I grew up in Spain amid a collective amnesia about Franco. It is time we faced up to our dark past
https://www.youtube.com/@redcreators 50,000 fans cheer for Palestine at friendly football match in Spain Peoples of the world! / In the days when the earth weeps, when children are buried without names / we raise our voices like a barricade: with anger and with hope. Venceremos Palestine In my mouth, the bitter taste of gunpowder, / and… Read More Venceremos Palestine !
By Siyavash Shahabi on November 4, 2025 In the past 24 hours, security forces carried out coordinated raids on the homes of several left-wing researchers and translators in Tehran, arresting Parviz Sedaghat, Mahsa Asadollahnejad, and Shirin Karimi. They confiscated the belongings of Mohammad Maljoo and summoned him for questioning; the home of Heiman Rahimi was also searched, and… Read More The War on Minds: Inside the Iranian Regime’s Coordinated Arrests of Left Scholars
There can be no healing until the world stares into and acknowledges the void torn open by this conflict Orly Noy About two weeks after 7 October, I received a WhatsApp message from an acquaintance in Gaza. He asked me to check on his mother, who at that time was hospitalised in East Jerusalem. He had… Read More Disappearing people, disappearing morals – how two years has changed Gaza and Israel
Exclusive: Detainees at Rakefet include nurse deprived of natural light since January, and teenager held for nine months‘ NB: The moronic American War Secretary recently said that Zionism & Americanism are the front lines of Western civilisation and freedom in our world today: It would be more accurate to say these ‘isms’ are a sadistic death… Read More Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight
Where the postcolonial Left meets the Hindu Right NB: This is an interesting overview, although I cannot agree with some of the author’s arguments. For instance, I think it is true that Hindutva marks an attempt to recast Sanatan Dharma as an Abrahamic-style faith; the main objective being homogeneity and subjugation of an entire population… Read More India’s Conservative Revolution
