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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Mar 8, 2026

  8 March

  * Champion Nuclear Disarmament - Open Letter to Rahul Gandhi | K. Sahadevan
  * Tribute to Gargi Chakravartty — Scholar & Comrade | Satyaki Chakraborty
  * War Is Too Serious A Business To Be Left To One Man | Vijay Kumar
  * How Political Opportunism Is Cannibalising the Tamil Future | Aruliniyan Mahalingam
  * The Downside of Screen Time | Martha Rosenberg
  * Man Made Language | Dale Spender

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream — The war on Iran its world wide reverberations

  8 March
  A 76-year-old politician brainwashed a 79-year-old right-wing businessman to kill a 86-year-old religious leader on 1 March 2026. Who else died? A hundred and sixty-five little girls (7-12 year-olds) at the Minab primary school, a civilian site  (...)
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  Tribute: Gargi Chakravartty stood out with her scholarship and commitment | Satyaki Chakraborty

  8 March
  (India Press Agency, March 3, 2026) Dr. Gargi Chakravartty, eminent historian and a leading figure of the National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) passed away in Kolkata on March 2. She was 78. Her husband famous journalist Sumit Chakravartty  (...)

• Champion Nuclear Disarmament - An Open Letter to Opposition Leader Rahul Gandhi Invoking the Legacy of Rajiv Gandhi’s Action Plan in a Time of Heightened Nuclear Peril | K. Sahadevan

  8 March, by K. Sahadevan
  Dear Rahul Gandhi,
  You are well aware that tensions between two nuclear-armed states are escalating toward the brink of war. I am writing this letter for two primary reasons. First, I am convinced of the futility of expecting a regime obsessed  (...)

• War Is Too Serious A Business To Be Left To One Man | Vijay Kumar

  8 March, by Vijay Kumar
  We are in the midst of mini-World War after Putin’s war against Ukraine, Netanyahu’s war that resulted in humongous genocide in GAZA, and now Trump’s & Netanyahu’s war against Iran have marked the return of age of monarchy, ruled by the norm of  (...)

• JVP disowns earlier ideological anathema for India | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  8 March, by M R Narayan Swamy
  A top leader of Sri Lanka’s dominant Marxist ruling party has declared that it has dumped its ideological hostility to India that shaped its thinking for decades.
  The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP or People’s Liberation Front), which remained on  (...)

• Nepal’s Ballot Revolution and the Rise of New Politics | Sajad Padder

  8 March
  A political shift driven by youth aspirations, anti-corruption sentiment, and the search for accountable governance in Nepal’s evolving democracy.
  The recent general elections in Nepal may mark an important moment in the country’s democratic  (...)

• Peace without Justice is a Fragile Calm in Manipur | Kham Sian Muan, Thangmoi Haokip, Stephen Khammuonlal

  8 March
  Today, Manipur looks calm! President’s Rule has ended, an elected government is functioning, and the sounds of guns are mostly silent. To an outsider, it may be tempting to believe the worst has passed. But calm is not peace. Beneath the surface,  (...)

• What’s common between Trump, Modi and Netanyahu | Faraz Ahmad

  8 March, by Faraz Ahmad
  If there is one thing common between US President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanyahu and our very dear Prime Minister Narendrabhai Damodardas Modi it is megalomania.
  The Oxford English dictionary describes a megalomaniac  (...)

• On Writing and not Writing as a Matter of Practice | Sreedeep Bhattacharya

  8 March
  Anti-adda as an Academic Stance
  Recently, Professor Surinder Singh Jodhka officially ‘retired’ from Jawaharlal Nehru University—an event that academia likes to treat as both real and entirely fictional. After all, we are trained early on to  (...)

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