Latest news 7 September 2022 Announced: Mainstream, VOL 60 No 39-42 September 17 - October 8, 2022 - 4 Week Bumper issue Please take note: A bumper edition of Mainstream is to appear on Sept 17, 2022, ...

One could ask a question whether a heinous crime like murder be classified as “political†. A crime is generally distinguished by the motive behind it. The Oxford Dictionary of Law defines ...

Like his father Lalu Yadav, his younger son, the leader of opposition Tejashwi Yadav took to aggressive posture and announced headline-grabbing promises for the voters even before Bihar INDIA bloc ...

This paper presents a descriptive analysis of poverty in India, drawing on secondary data from national surveys and expert committee reports. The findings reveal a steady decline in income poverty ...

The celebration of 100 years of Bollywood needs to be reviewed from a subaltern perspective. The general assumption that cinema is a normal mode to produce anecdotes to satisfy the entertainment ...

If a question is asked—what has the USA done to topple leftist governments in Venezuela during the 21st century, the answer would be— almost everything. What is ...

Economic development and its sustainability depends on the inter generational savings and their productive investment. Productive investment gets a boost if it is accompanied by innovations in various ...

Professor M.N. Vijayan—a Leftist scholar of great repute, an incisive writer and orator, a social critic and an unyielding political activist which Kerala has ever seen—is now history. Vijayan ...

The New India is a conjurer’s table with secret pockets and hidden crevices that are hard to fathom. The smokescreen of false logic further hides the reality of this strange country. To understand the ...

The Narendra Modi-led BJP government has forcefully passed the Disaster Management (Amendment) Act, 2025 & brought India’s disaster management policy, on the surface, appears to be modernising. The ...