Table of Contents - Mainstream, Feb 10, 2024

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Feb 10, 2024
• Despite Nitish Kumar’s Betrayal Bihar Will Play a Pivotal Role in the Battle to Save India from the Disastrous Modi Rule | Dipankar Bhattacharya
• Saffron Threats May Scuttle the Gains of Rahul’s Twin Yatras | Arun Srivastava
• Karpoori Thakur’s Quest for Justice | Gopal Krishna
• Bharat Ratna to Karpoori Thakur: Appropriating icons for political end | Prem Singh
• Budgets in India Need Much Higher Commitment to Reducing Poverty and Inequality | Bharat Dogra
• Interim Budget 2024-25 : Some Observations | Atul Sarma & Shyam Sunder
• BJP Government created a Graveyard of “Guarantees”: Binoy Viswam
• BJP Anti-Tribal By Nature, Remembers Them Only Before Elections: Binoy Viswam
• Millets: The Resilient Saviors of Nutrition and Sustainability | S N Tripathy
• A Delhi RWA Sounds The Bgule | LK Sharma
• Once we respected and loved each other | Humra Quraishi
• Poem: Holocaust Now! | Murzban Jal
• Transgender Persons at Delhi’s Traffic Lights | Sonu Chauhan
• Dialogue on New Socialism An Interview with the Editor of ‘The New Socialist Reader’ | T. Vijayendra
• European & India Farmer Protests | Soma Marla
• Why BDS Can’t Tolerate Jews and Palestinians in Israel Standing Together | Etan Nechin
• Debt, wage theft, and coercion drive the global garment industry – the only answer is collective action | Alessandra Mezzadri

DOCUMENT:

• NREGA Diwas 2024: Demand of the country’s workers: Employment guarantee for all | NREGA Sangharsh Morcha
• Uttarakhand Women’s Groups’ Statement on the Uttarakhand Uniform Civil Code Draft Bill
• Former state officials express disquiet over state role in the consecration ceremony of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya on 22 January 2024

BOOKS:

• Jairus Banaji’s Comment on the Report from Xunwu by Mao Zedong
• An honest police officer speaks but questions remain | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Woodard’s Review of ’Toxic Exposures’ by Susan L Smith

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Photo: Satyajit Ray with actors Sanjeev Kumar & Saeed Jaffrey on the sets of ’The Chess Players’
• Painting: The Artist’s Father, Reading L’Événement, 1866 | Paul Cézanne
• Video: Our History, Their History, Whose History? | Romila Thapar
• Video: Norwegian FM: Palestinian state essential for Middle East peace

Editor’s Picks:

• In defence of secularism, in a time of majoritarian triumphalism
• Stop Bulldozer injustice in India
• On abortion, Supreme Court and government have failed women
• Dongri Ke Naye Don
• Can the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra Act as a Catalyst for Deeper Transformation in Our Democracy?
• Rahul Gandhi is conquering the margins like Shivaji did. Is this marginal politics?
• India’s ‘New Era’ and Western Imperialism in 2023 Part 5
• India’s plan for untouched Nicobar isles will be ‘death sentence’ for isolated tribe
• Imran Khan: How Pakistan ex-PM plans to win an election from jail
• Meet the Israelis Who Are Trying to Physically Block the Ethnic Cleansing Unfolding in the West Bank
• Sergei Lavrov: “Israel Pursues Objectives Similar to Those of Russia”!
• Putin challenger Boris Nadezhdin barred from Russia’s election
• Investigation into the Failed Coup in Brazil of failed Jan. 8th, 2023
• Abdulrazak Gurnah on German East Africa
• Cheap Nature — Cheap Lives
• Why do we sleep and how do we make the most of it?

(Cover Page Artwork Credits: Anchor Flowers with Love - Free embroidery pattern via lovecrafts)