2025

• AITUC statement on employers who want all limits on worktime to go
  12 January
  All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
  Date: 10th January 2025
  Press Release
  The following statement was issued to the press by AITUC today-10th January 2025.
  Subrahmanyam, Murthy, Adani want more from the workers - for the nation, of course.  (...)
• 90 hours work a week is detrimental to both health and productivity | IDPD
  12 January, by Arun Mitra
  Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD)
  139-E, Kitchlu Nagar, Ludhiana – 141001 M: 9417000360 Email: idpd2001[at]hotmail.com
  Date: 10.01.2025
  Press Note
  IDPD takes strong exception to SN Subrahmanyan’s statement on 90 hours work a week  (...)
• Review of Bhattacharya’s, Disparate Remedies | Asmita Sarkar
  12 January
  BOOK REVIEW
  
  Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India by Nandini Bhattacharya
  McGill-Queen’s University Press Intoxicating Histories Series 2023. xii + 257 pp. (paper), ISBN 978-0-228-01753-0
  
  Reviewed by Asmita Sarkar  (...)
• Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 1, Jan 4, 2025
  4 January

  * Privatization of Vizag Steel Plant | Soma Marla
  * Challenges To Democracy In India | Avatthi Ramaiah
  * Looking back at the Hindu Code Bill episode of 1940s-50s | Bhuvak
  * The changing face of employment in the 21st century | Upal Chakraborty
  * Municipal Socialism | Petr Kropotkin

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 4, 2025
  4 January
  Letter to the readers, Mainstream, Jan 4, 2025
  In what is known to the world as one of the worst industrial disasters —on December 3, 1984, the leak of toxic gas methyl isocyanate at Union Carbide’s pesticide plant in Bhopal, killed some 5000  (...)
• Manmohan Singh: A gentleman politician India was lucky to have | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  4 January, by M R Narayan Swamy
  I was one of some 30 or 40 academics, scholars and journalists who went to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s official residence in the heart of Delhi on account of a book release. The author was J.N. Dixit, the veteran diplomat who later served as  (...)
• Dr. Manmohan Singh – The Architect of Viksit Bharat | Atul Sarma
  4 January
  India’s economic crisis in 1991 brought out the toughness in an otherwise humble and self-effacing OX-Bridge trained economist, Dr. Manmohan Singh, when Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao chose him as Finance Minister to steward the crisis-ridden  (...)
• Rare are people of integrity and compassion | Humra Quraishi
  4 January, by Humra Quraishi
  2nd January 2025
  As Khushwant Singh and I put together his book ‘Absolute Khushwant’ (Pengiun, 2010 ), where he spoke and I wrote, he spoke in great detail about the various personalities and politicians he’d met all through his  (...)
• A Tragic Coincidence | J P Gadkari
  4 January, by J P Gadkari
  The nation had the tragic coincidence of a huge nature being struck to it when it was about to celebrate in a big way the Centenary of Mahatma Gandhi having completed 100 years of his presiding over the only time as the president of he oldest  (...)
• 2024 and its lessons for India | P. S. Jayaramu
  4 January, by P S Jayaramu
  29th December 2024
  I like to indulge in some broad reflections on the lessons of the year that is ending. My focus is largely on the political arena with some thoughts expressed on the direction of the economy, specially in view of the legacy of  (...)

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