2025

• Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 10, Mar 8, 2025
  8 March

  * Toxic Masculinity & Backlash Against Women’s Rights | Mohan Rao
  * Caste Enumeration Controversy in Telangana | Srinivasulu Karli
  * From Kumbh to Mahakumbh | Radhakanta Barik
  * Against the Couple-Form | Clemence X. Clementine and associates from the Infinite Venom Girl Gang

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Mar 8, 2025
  8 March
  Fifty years after the Committee on the Status of Women in India submitted its report ‘Towards Equality’ (1974) to the Government of India, many reforms were brought in to the legislative and legal frame to protect, enable and expand women’s  (...)
• Toxic Masculinity & Backlash Against Women’s Rights | Mohan Rao
  8 March
  Remarks at the valedictory session of the three-day international conference “Reflections on the Past, Looking to the Future: Fifty Years of Towards Equality”, 3rd-5th March 2025, organized by the Centre for Women’s Development Studies at the India  (...)
• All Things Beyond Justice For The Indian Woman | Ruksana and Nitish
  8 March
  Navigating societal double standards in twenty-first century India, such as, Ladkon se galtiyan ho jaati hain and Ladkiyon ko chup rehna chahiye (Boys err, Girls should shut up), is a hazardous task even today. In this ancient land of  (...)
• Some Thoughts on International Women’s Day | Sagari Chhabra
  8 March, by Sagari Chhabra
  I first met Krishna Thapar in Chandigarh. She was a diminutive woman dressed in a white salwar kameez and dupatta, with a face that was wrought with exquisite lines as she had witnessed the most excruciating pain. Her father Achint Ram Thapar  (...)
• Re-imagining Love, Nature and Sensuality in Meghaduta | Swaswati Borkataki
  8 March
  Abstract:
  The Meghaduta through its translation by Abhay K. is re-imagined here as a portrayal of love, longing, sensuality and spirituality, all combined into one play. The Yaksha’s longing for his beloved and his cajoling of the cloud to be his  (...)
• Comedians vs. Censors: Revisiting Ideology and Language of Abuse | Amit Kumar
  8 March
  Abstract
  In the wake of the recent backlash against the comedian Samay Raina and his fellow panellists on India’s Got Latent, the controversy underscores the persistent tensions between free expression and moral censorship in India. Marked by  (...)
• Trump’s action may ruin the Indian economic system, just as it plunders the world order | Arun Srivastava
  8 March
  There is a definite well-thought-out rightist design behind US President Donald Trump’s ostensible madness. It would be wrong to construe that Trump has been resorting to eccentric action to gain back the lost prestige of America and reassert its  (...)
• Tribute to A. K. Biswas | Vidya Bhushan Rawat
  8 March, by Vidya Bhushan Rawat
  Deeply sad to hear about the demise of Dr A K Biswas, one of the foremost historians of the Bahujan movement who has been consistently writing on issues hitherto kept under the carpet by the mainstream Brahmanical íntellectuals. Dr Biswas was  (...)
• Caste Enumeration Controversy in Telangana | Srinivasulu Karli
  8 March, by Karli Srinivasulu
  The Congress government in Telangana is mired in a controversy pertaining to the results of the caste enumeration it made public. The Congress under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi promised caste enumeration as part of the party’s social justice  (...)

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