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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 2, Jan 11, 2025

  12 January

  * Why India’s ruling party is confident of being in power for long | Ajay Gudavarthy
  * Arunachal Christians gird up to face a challenge from Sangh & the govt
  * Deschooling Society | Ivan Illich

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 11, 2025

  12 January
  Letter to the readers, Mainstream
  Indian society remains a conservative place with limited respect for legally guaranteed individual/personal rights of adult citizens. In the name of traditional values, community, caste, religion, and family  (...)

• Why India’s ruling party is confident of being in power for long | Ajay Gudavarthy

  12 January
  January 6, 2025
  Its ability to set the terms of the national discourse and political agility prompts BJP leaders to claim that they will be in power for a few more decades.
  The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has asserted that it will be in  (...)

• Maharashtra and the power of Oligarchy | Faraz Ahmad

  12 January, by Faraz Ahmad
  Britannica describes Oligarchy as a government with despotic power exercised by a small and privileged group for corrupt or selfish purposes. Wikipedia elaborates how Putative oligarchy in a country or nation in which one or a few Business  (...)

• Arunachal Christians gird up to face a challenge from Sangh and the government | John Dayal

  12 January, by John Dayal
  India’s Bishops, as much as its civil society, possibly missed an ominous warning in a report in the Kathmandu-based portal Himal South Asia that there has been growing support within tribal communities in the north-eastern states of Assam,  (...)

• Why attack Kerala CM over temple dress code? | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  12 January, by M R Narayan Swamy
  It is unclear why the chief minister of Kerala, Pinarayi Vijayan, has come under vicious criticism for merely endorsing a suggestion that men should not be forced to remove their upper garments while entering Hindu temples.
  In any case, there is  (...)

• Does Babasaheb’s Ideology match with the Hindu Nationalist Politics? | Ram Puniyani

  12 January, by Ram Puniyani
  As the insult hurled on Babasaheb by Amit Shah in Lok Sabha is coming under heavy criticism from all over the country, the right-wing Hindu Nationalist ideologues are trying to create a narrative that Babsaheb was on same page as the politics of  (...)

• Impact of Pollution Prevention Steps on Workers in Delhi | Bharat Dogra

  12 January, by Bharat Dogra
  As a part of steps to reduce air pollution in Delhi almost every year during winter or preceding weeks a temporary ban on construction work is announced which can extend to several weeks. What is the impact of this on workers and to what extent  (...)

• Modi’s turn from non-biological to human | J P Gadkari

  12 January, by J P Gadkari
  January 11, 2025
  Prime Minister Narendra Modi who had earlier declared himself as a "non-biological" being has now gone back on that claim and has asserted that he too like all other "human beings" was likely to commit mistakes.
  Modi had made  (...)

• Refusing invitation for swearing in, points to Trump-Modi friendship on the rock | Arun Srivastava

  12 January
  Their friendship is fragile. It is not based on the precinct of mutual trust and respect. Both, Donald Trump and Narendra Modi, have been busy promoting their own personal interests behind the veneer of friendship. While Trump used it for  (...)

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