2025

• Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 20, May 17, 2025
  17 May

  * Feminists from India and Pakistan Issue Call for Peace and Dialogue
  * The CAA and the Eroded Public Sphere: A Media Content Analysis through Chomsky and Habermas | Sunit Singh and Anjali Sidhwani
  * Obituary: The Death Of Joseph Nye Sounds Requiem For Soft Power | Vijay Kumar

• Will this ceasefire last | Faraz Ahmad
  17 May, by Faraz Ahmad
  Cessation of war anywhere in the world, whoever might have intervened and said halt, is welcome, even if the whistle blower is some illiterate pompous ruler of a nation full of monetary wealth but somewhat lacking in finesse and intellect.
  It is  (...)
• How can India and Pakistan Avoid High Risk Situations in Future | Bharat Dogra
  17 May, by Bharat Dogra
  While just now there is a widespread feeling of relief that a much bigger potential disaster has been averted due to the clinching of an early ceasefire, thanks to the wisdom displayed at a crucial juncture by the leaders of India and Pakistan,  (...)
• India’s Indus bargain needs a cohesive strategy not coercion | Medha Bisht
  17 May
  May 7, 2025
  While the Indus Waters Treaty has survived three India-Pakistan wars, the pattern of interaction between the two countries on sharing the waters of the Indus Basin has been conflictual rather than cooperative.
  As the conflict  (...)
• The CAA and the Eroded Public Sphere: A Media Content Analysis through Chomsky and Habermas | Sunit Singh and Anjali Sidhwani
  17 May
  This article argues that the selected Indian media outlets have failed to develop a public sphere in the Habermasian sense, where rational-critical debate among private individuals about matters of public concern can flourish. Instead, the media  (...)
• Take A Break! | Pratishtha Pandya
  17 May
  by Pratishtha Pandya *
  I AM SO GLAD, YOU ARE ASLEEP. I have asked your mother to recover your phone from your room and bin it. On your mother’s phone, I shall tell you why.
  Your latest post has gone viral. It attracted ninety-one thousand  (...)
• Seeking A Way | Sagari Chhabra
  17 May, by Sagari Chhabra
  They walked into a meadow blossoming with flowers, asking tourists their religion; separating them they shot the newly-weds, transmuting sindoor into blood as the earth shrivelled into a terrified flood, of entrenched corpses.
  The chinar trees  (...)
• India’s First Metadata case: Endless Indiscriminate Electoral Surveillance through merger of Voter ID Number and Aadhaar Number - End of Secret Ballot System? Part 11 | Gopal Krishna
  17 May, by Gopal Krishna
  “ One way to ensure that the unique identification (UID) number is used by all government and private agencies is by inserting it into the birth certificate of the infant. Since the birth certificate is the original identity document, it is  (...)
• What Monarchy’s Return in Nepal will Mean for India | Manas Mukul Bandyopadhyay & Gouri Sankar Nag
  17 May
  The wheel of history turns, but in Nepal, it is turning very rapidly. Thousands of people are back on the streets demanding the return of 77-year-old former king, Gyanendra. The roads are filled with people, tear gas, clashes, and curfews are  (...)
• Statesmanship, not rhetoric, is the need of the hour: Prime Minister’s speech centred towards his electoral base | Arun Mitra
  17 May
  War brings misery and deaths. ‘War is neither romantic nor a Bollywood film’ said former Army Chief Manoj Narvane while addressing at an event organised by the Cost Accountants of India at Pune. Diplomacy would be his first choice he added, ‘there  (...)

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