Table of Contents - Mainstream, Feb 24, 2024

In this Issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Feb 24, 2024
• Death of F.S. Nariman Marks The Loss of Voice of Conscience | Vijay Kumar
• Afghanistan: Abandoned by the World | Apratim Mukarji
• Bail not jail is a privilege only for the select few | Faraz Ahmad
• Sunabohu: Ethnographic study of Karan | Radhakanta Barik
• Fast-track probe on the assassination of Govind Pansare - Letter to CM of Maharashtra | Binoy Viswam
• NDA, India, and The Coalition Conundrum | Ajay K. Mehra
• Will Legal MSP Guarantees Drive the Government to Bankruptcy? | Soma Marla
• Farmer movements must defeat big business agenda by integrating livelihood and climate concerns | Bharat Dogra
• Pakistan elections: The ‘militablishment’ may have won the battle, but is it losing the war? | Ershad Mahmud
• We need to talk about obstetric violence | Vijayetta Sharma
• Ameen Sayani’s voice united South Asia | Jawed Naqvi
• Folk Politics and Populism: Pedagogy of Leadership | Sunita Samal
• Dwelling | Ivan Illich (1984)

DOCUMENTS:

• “Jail, not Bail”: Is the SC setting the clock back? | Statement PUCL
• India Transport workers union refuses to load equipment and supplies for Israel’s war in Gaza
• Resolution adopted at Public Meet on ICJ Ruling & Justice For Gaza | New Delhi, 23 Feb 2024

BOOKS:

• Review of Quraishi’s The Diary of Gul Mohammad | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Review of Becker & other’s Transnational Communism across the Americas | Thomas Field

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Caricature: Tribute to Amin Sayani | Jayaraj Vellur
• Caricature: Tribute to Fali Nariman | Jayaraj Vellur
• Photo: Train with Japanese Americans headed to U.S. concentration camps during WWII | Dorothea Lange, 1942
• Sudan’s Collapse & the Demise of Peacemaking | Hold Your Fire Podcast
• Music: El Loco Cha Cha · René Touzet And His Orchestra

Editor’s Picks:

• Theatre doyen Raj Bisaria dies at 89: ‘A teacher par excellence’
• No Bharat Ratnas For Farmers!
• Electoral Bonds Illegal but BJP Now Has Rs 6500 Cr
• ’Modi is supposed to represent all of us’: human rights lawyer Indira Jaising
• How RSS textbooks are reshaping Indian history and science under Modi
• Are Dalits homogenous or heterogenous?
• Analysis: The Great Indian Water Act Of 2024
• Communal Geographies: Space, Identity and Electoral Constituency in Colonial North India
• Ranjit Hoskote: In our interconnected world, Gaza is everywhere
• Think about the Nation
• India’s Ukraine and Gaza Policies Are Consistent With the Great Power Aspirations of Its Elites
• To speak or not to speak
• Iran: Prisoners sentenced to a living death
• From mercenary to legitimate actor? Russian discourses on private military companies
• When Eyes in the Sky Start Looking Right at You
• Filming and Forgetting Taipei

(Coverpage Artwork Credits: Paul Klee - Sunset (1930))