Table of Contents - Mainstream, Nov 25, 2023

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Nov 25, 2003
• Caste census: game changer or false hope? | Ajay Gudavarthy
• Impact of Climate Change on Construction Workers | Bharat Dogra
• Fixing Paradoxes in Climate Policy | Prakash C.J, Ecosystem People Supporters
• On Prevention of Fatal road crashes in Southasia | Mridul Bhasin
• Debate on Deindustrialization: Fakirmohan Senapati’s ‘Balesore Pangaluna’ | Radhakanta Barik
• Did Birsa Munda die in vain? | S.G.Vombatkere
• India’s Fight Against Poverty and Hunger | S N Tripathy
• A tale of high morality | Faraz Ahmad
• 2023 Student Election on Delhi University Campus | Radhika Kumar et al
• What is Home? | Mosab Abu Toha
• It Happened One Fine Day | Murzban Jal
• A Diary / At A Hospital In Gaza | Sagari Chhabra
• Kora: in search of the origins of West Africa’s famed stringed musical instrument
• The Authoritarian Personality | Erich Fromm

DOCUMENTS

• Silkyara Tunnel Collapse & the Govt’s Apathy Towards Safety Norms | Joint Statement from Unions
• Workers Concerns on Future of Integral Coach Factory - Letter to the Railway Minister by Binoy Viswam (MP)
• Statement on Behalf of Israel-based Progressives and Peace Activists | Oct 16, 2023

BOOKS

• Why has communism failed to permanently change the world? | Apratim Mukarji
• Kinzley’s Review of Greene, J. Megan, Building a Nation at War

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Map & Lithograph - Fort Saint George (1757)
• Memorial Plaques to victims of Stalin keep disappearing in Putin’s Russia
• Audio: Origins of the Israel-Palestine Conflict | William Dalrymple, Anita Anand & Tom Segev
• Movie: Cash on Demand (1961 thriller from Britain)

Editor’s Picks:

• J&K: Tribunal Sets Free Army Captain Held for 2020 Shopian Killings: Here’s What the Bench Said
• Patanjali Group & dubious shell firms for lucrative real estate business
• Free Speech In The States
• Indian poet and cultural critic, denounced by German art festival
  Documenta 16, has resigned as a member of its selection committee
• Why Muslims shouldn’t listen to pro-Hamas liberals
• Do Citizens Enforce Accountability for Public Goods Provision? Evidence from India’s Rural Roads Program
• End the secrecy: On the actions of Indian agencies abroad
• Bangladesh garment workers fighting for pay face brutal violence and threats
• Canadian peace activist confirmed killed in Hamas attack
• Is the Two-State Solution Back?
• Combatants for Peace
• The fallacy of Israel’s human shields claims in Gaza [from 2018)
• Germany: Left Party to disband parliamentary faction
• Ukraine war: Russian artist Sasha Skochilenko jailed for anti-war messages
• Russian memorials to victims of Stalin vanish
• Ex-doctor goes on trial in France over Rwanda genocide
• Delhi AQI: Why Indian capital lags behind Beijing in the battle to breathe
• The Problem with Vanilla
• Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site

(Coverpage Artwork Credits: Line Drawing by Paul Klee [no date])