Table of Contents - Mainstream, March 2, 2024

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In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, March 2, 2024
• Field Reports from Sandeshkhali | Arup Kumar Sen
• International Court and Justice in Gaza (Report of a Public Meeting held in New Delhi, 23 February 2024) | Indians for Palestine
• Rajya Sabha Poll Results—Politics sans Principles | P S Jayaramu
• Bicycle and Women’s Liberation | T. Vijayendra
• Gender Justice in Education - a Peek Into Indian Schools | Mrinmayee Mandal
• Hate Speech in India: How to Promote Amity? | Ram Puniyani
• All the perfumes of Arabia will not remove the taint of the Bhopal disaster | Gopal Krishna
• How automation will shape future of work in India | Anita Hammer
• Towards civil liberties and a union of minds in Southasia
• The World Social Forum: The counterweight to the World Economic Forum | Isabel Ortiz
• Against Hindutva’s appropriation of Indian radicals such as Bhagat Singh and Sahajanand | Jairus Banaji
• Afghanistan: UN expert calls on international community to prioritise human rights of Afghans in any ‘normalisation’
• International Women’s Day: Origins, History, and Present | Anil Rajimwale
• Inciting Liberation - “No God, No Boss, No Husband” | Mona Eltahawy

COMMUNICATION:

• Letter to the Editor, March 2, 2024 | Humra Quarishi

DOCUMENTS:

• Demolition of Home of Vakil Khan, the Miner who led the rescue in Silkyara Tunnel - Statement by Central Trade Unions (March 1, 2024)
• DDA Bulldozes House of Rescue Miner Waqeel Hasan | Statement by CPIML (Liberation) - Delhi-NCR State Committee
• Open Letter to the Israeli and U.S. Governments and Others Weaponizing the Issue of Rape
• ISA supports the call for the reinstatement of Prof Lesley Wood

BOOKS:

• Israel is reaping what it has sowed | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Wan on Williamson & Guffey, ’Making Disability Modern: Design Histories’

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Caricature: Tribute to Kumar Shahani | J Vellur
• Poster: Religion and Family Laws Key to Women’s Subordination
• Animation: The Hand (1966) Jiri Trnka
• Documentary: Emma Goldman: An Exceedingly Dangerous Woman

Editor’s Picks:

• Writer Nitasha Kaul not allowed to enter Bengaluru, allegedly detained and deported to London
• How the government lost the script on MSP to farmers
• Modi’s Strange India of Celebrations and Superstition
• Hamas to halal: How anti-Muslim hate speech is spreading in India
• Top forest officer suspended for naming lion pair Akbar and Sita
• India facing ’a systematic threat’ to its scientific and educational foundations: Scientists
• Van Gujjars help conserve forests, but are deprived of rights
• A Modi-fied Decade
• Black sand diaries
• Black economy persists with or without electoral bonds
• Pakistan woman in Arabic print dress saved from mob claiming blasphemy
• Endogenous State Capacity
• Israel’s Far Right Finally Gets the War It Has Always Wanted
• France to make abortion a constitutional right after senate vote
• The wanted man next door
• Neuralink brain chip: advance sparks safety and secrecy concerns

(Cover Page Artwork Credits: Joan Miro - Untitled (30 July 1970))

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