Table of Contents - Mainstream, March 9, 2024

In this Issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, March 9, 2024
• Worship The Constitution, Rather than Books of Religion | Vijay Kumar
• Odissa: Naveen Patnaik’s return to alliance with the BJP - Political suicide mission or electoral arithmetic? | Bhabani Shankar Nayak
• West Bengal: Hindutva ecosystem has design to destabilise Mamata and oust her from power | Arun Srivastava
• Political Polarization on Citizen Amendment Act and Campaign Strategies in Delhi Assembly Elections, 2020 | V K Sridhar
• Domestic workers deserve workplace benefits | Divya Ravindranath
• Sociological Reflections on the Movie “12th Fail” | Sanjiv Kumar
• Quit WTO for crop MSPs and Food security | Soma Marla
• Non-Violent Weapon | JP Gadkari
• Hey Ram | Sukumaran C.V.
• Mule accounts malpractices impede booming IPOs growth | Dhameja, Dhameja, Khatter
• Hindu nationalism poses a threat to democratic politics in India & Nepal | Rana, Thapa & Pandey
• War on Gaza: Millions of anti-war protestors are the hope for the future | Arundhati Roy
• Achieving the Two-State Solution in the Wake of Gaza War | Jeffrey D. Sachs & Sybil Fares
• Some Aspects of the Southern Question (1926) | Antonio Gramsci

DOCUMENTS:

• Nagpur Branch, Bombay High Court In GN Saibaba Judgement (March 5, 2024)
• Repeated arrests & harassment of journalist Asif Sultan by the J& K Government - Statement by Press Club of India
• PIPFPD urges resumption of dialogue between India & Pakistan | March 4, 2024

BOOKS:

• Review of Keeping Up A Good Fight | Sukla Sen
• Review of Education for Rita | Joydip Ghosal
• Durjan Singh—Biography of an Activist who fought for the Rights of the Poorest | Bharat Dogra

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Graphic on unpaid work by women across Asia-Pacific
• Video: Modi Government is Abusing the Law, Hurting the Poor by Targeting NGOs, Social Movements
• Video: Robin Blackburn on the History of Slavery and Capitalism in the Americas
• Music: Répétition - BOF "L’homme orchestre"

Editor’s Picks:

• There are no poor in India
• Seeing the new India through the eyes of an invisible woman
• Women. Bar-coded. Told
• Bombay High Court acquits former DU professor GN Saibaba and five others in Maoist link case
• Odisha forest officials expose pan-India elephant smuggling racket
• Deja Vu
• 7.4 Lakh People Evicted, 1.53 Lakh Homes Demolished by Govt in the Last Two Years’:Report
• India’s iPhone factory is keeping women workers isolated
• Judges Should Not Consider Their Judicial Power To Be Unaccountable
• India’s green credit rules might end up creating green deserts
• Gender Division of Work and Wages in Rural India
• Blasphemy Is a Crime in Pakistan. Mobs Are Delivering the Verdicts
• Reactionary Ecology
• How poor Kenyans became economists’ guinea pigs
• Nigeria’s Boko Haram crisis: Dozens of women feared abducted in Gamboru Ngala
• Achieving the Two-State Solution in the Wake of Gaza War
• Against Resilience: The (Anti-)Ethics of Participation in an Unjust and Unequal Public Sphere

* (Cover Page Artwork Credits: Richard Diebenkorn - Irregular Grid (1980) )