Table of Contents - Mainstream, March 23, 2024

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In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream March 23, 2024
• The Pre-Trial Arrest of Opposition Leaders in the Middle of General Election Disturbs the Rule of Electoral Game | Vijay Kumar
• Growing Spectre of Hate in University Campuses in India | Narender Nagarwal
• Banerjee Solo-Card in West Bengal | Nilofar Suhrawardy
• One more Divisive Issue: CAA | Ram Puniyani
• People’s Health Manifesto Demands A Common Health System | Bharat Dogra
• Metamorphosis of Judicial Activism | Arup Kumar Sen
• Unfolding of "New conception" of Women’s empowerment | Sunil Ray
• A Wedding at India’s Super Rich & the Question of Public Morality | Radhakanta Barik
• The Spectacle of the Ambani Wedding Reveals India’s Inequality | Sonia Faleiro
• Reinforcing the Campaign for Inclusive Development | Suranjita Ray
• India on the brink | Arun Srivastava
• Access to water is a crisis for the powerless | Prakash Kashwan
• Devolution of Funds and North-South Divide | J P Gadkari
• A Critical Analysis of Gendered Violence in ’Bandit Queen’ | Sahil Singh
• Wokeism - the new whipping horse of India’s Hindutva Right & the Global Right | Subhas Gatade
• Loneliness and Capitalism | Bhabani Shankar Nayak
• If the Z.A. Bhutto trial could be declared unjust, why not Bhagat Singh? | Chaman Lal
• Hunger-strikers’ Demands (1929) | Bhagat Singh, B.K. Dutt
• Hyper-nationalism hurting India–Maldives relations | Rishabh Yadav
• Pride Shattered, Israel Faces Grim Truths | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Collective Theory, Collective Guilt: The Frankfurt School in/and Exile | Aranya Majumder
• Bina Agarwal & James Boyce win first “Global Inequality Research Award”

DOCUMENTS:

• PIPFPD Pays Tribute to Admiral Ramdas
• EAS Sarma letter to the President to institute an Inquiry on Electoral Bonds
• RSS Must Stop Demonising The Farmers’ Movement | AIKS

BOOKS:

• Review of Svetlana Alexievich’s Zinky Boys | John Lloyd

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Drawing: ’In search of ahimsa’ | Sagari Chhabra
• 1915 Post Card from Orleans with Indian soldiers, during World War I
• Audio: Hindu Nationalism and the U.S. Right with Prachi Patankar
• Audio: Isaac Deutscher, "Lenin’s Childhood" & G. Pozo on Deutscher
• Music: Boubacar Traoré - Dounia Tabolo

Editor’s Picks:

• ’I was scared to death for Baba’s life’
• The ’Billionaire Raj’ is now more unequal than the British colonial Raj
• What remains of Kashmiri civil society’s valiant fight for justice
• Remembering Bhupen
• Not just electoral bonds, the BJP is biggest beneficiary of all forms of political finance
• CEC’s support for donor anonymity in electoral bonds sign of compromise of basic institutions of democracy
• Electoral bonds full data
• What the Electoral Bond Scam, Kejriwal Arrest Tell Us About the State of Indian Democracy
• Supreme Court stays Centre’s notification on fact-checking unit
• Join Friends Of Ladakh
• 85 civil society groups issue joint statement in support of Ladakh statehood protests
• BJP’s Tathagata Roy calls for CAA procedures to conduct genitalia check to confirm religion
• An Open Letter to Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal
• The little girl in Persepolis has grown up’
• Rose Dugdale, English debutante turned IRA bomb maker, dies aged 83
• What lies behind the Biden administration’s changing ‘ceasefire’ language
• Argentina: Into the Abyss
• Nigeria’s kidnap crisis: Inside story of a ransom negotiator
• Greening Marx in Japan
• The Transformative Potential of Platform Cooperativism
• How much water should you drink a day?

(Cove rpage Artwork Credits Lenore Tawney - Untitled (1964))