Table of Contents - Mainstream, Mar 25, 2023

In this issue:

• Letter to the readers, Mainstream, March 25, 2023
• India: Lurches Closer to “Opposition-Mukt Democracy†!? | Sukla Sen
• Modi government following Zia model to disenfranchise Rahul | Faraz Ahmad
• Upcoming 2023 Karnataka Assembly Elections | PS Jayaramu
• Budgets 2023-24 Punjab Haryana compared | Sher Singh Sangwan
• Regenerating The Forest Ecosystem: Few Concerns | Suranjita Ray
• Saffron Clad Babas in Odisha’s Politics | Radhakanta Barik
• A Discourse on State of India’s Democracy | Arup Kumar Sen
• Police Encounters - a roaring industry | Humra Quraishi
• Democracy Under Threat: Can Lohia be an Answer? | Gyan Prakash
• Samajwadi party chief in a make-believe world of his own | Arun Srivastava
• ‘They Can Exploit Only Bhagat Singh’s Emotional Quotient, Not the Ideological Quotient’ - Interview with Jagmohan Singh | Naren Singh Rao
• Selected Quotes from the Writings of M N Roy
• UN Panel on Climate Change - 6 Assessment Report (March 2023)
• France: After Macron’s pension reform, all eyes on trade unions | Michel Wieviorka

DOCUMENTS:

• All India Trade Union Congress Press Release (March 23, 2023)
• CPI on Detention of Opposition MPs & Disqualification of Rahul Gandhi
• Arrest of Kashmir Journalist - Statement from Editors Guild
• Representation to Karnataka CM - Protect Farmers of North Bengaluru

BOOKS:

• Who Will Dominate the World? Democrats or Dictators? | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Review of Smith, Jessica M., Extracting Accountability

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Cartoon: No One is Raising Their Voice on Air-Quality | Hemant Marporia
• Photo: 1994 People at every vantage point to see Nelson Mandela arrive
• Ramanujan: Letters from an Indian Clerk | Christopher Sykes
• Daniel Ellsberg Talks about the Pentagon Papers and Vietnam

Editor’s Picks:

• India: Will there be a rollback of Myanmar’s refugees?
• Rajasthan Assembly Passes Advocates Protection Bill
• New Day of Strikes in France as Pension Anger Persists
• The legacy of the Soviet Gulag with ’Varlam’ author Michael Prazan
• Rewriting the Marcos Years
• No One Knows How the Biggest Animals on Earth—Baleen Whales—Find Their Food

* (Cover page artwork credits: Rotes Haus (Red House) by Paul Klee, 1929)