Table of Contents - Mainstream, March 16, 2024

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In this Issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, March 16, 2024
• CAA: A Tool of Hinduisation of Our Polity | Arup Kumar Sen
• CAA-2019 should be repealed | S G Vombatkere
• Anxiety in Modi Camp Over Rahul Yatra But Will He Take On BJP in Amethi | Faraz Ahmad
• Why should the government be involved in religious affairs? | Bajpai, Bandarupalli, Pandey
• Congress Party and the upcoming Lok Sabha polls | P S Jayaramu
• Munificent Spending Sinking States into Debt Trap | S S Sangwan
• MSP Guarantee and Crop Diversification | Jaglan & Kumar
• India’s rice trade at risk in Red Sea attacks | T S Maini
• Left parties’ in a fix over fascist forces & class enemies | Arun Srivastava
• Building a Superman Image To Fool The People | J P Gadkari
• CAA implementation, trouble ahead | Humra Quraishi
• Philanthropy of Ordinary People | Bharat Dogra
• CNDP Statement to Mark the Passing Away of Admiral Laxminarayan Ramdas
• Tribute: Ahmad Salim - a Punjabi poet who became a pul (bridge) between three Punjabs | Pritam Singh with Nuzhat Abbas
• Tribute: Aziz Qureshi - Memories of Mamu Saheb | Nazia Qureshi
• Tribute to Edward Webster: South African intellectual | Karl von Holdt
• China and India’s intense contest for influence | Jabin T. Jacob
• Global Transformational Trends | S N Tripathy
• ASEAN’s solution to Myanmar is at a tipping point | William J Jones
• Give It Away | David Graeber

DOCUMENTS:

• PUCL opposes the CAA as unconstitutional & discriminatory | March 13, 2024
• Opposition to CAA Notification Rules - Statements by Three Left Parties (March 12, 2024)

BOOKS

• Alice Oates. Review of Grossman, Sara J., Immeasurable Weather

IMAGE & SOUND

• Lithograph: Working Woman | Chittoprasad Bhattacharya
• Audio: On Low Female Labour Participation in India
• Hindu nationalism and India’s coming elections | The India Report
• Music: Minor Voyage (feat. Flavio Boltro, Louis Moutin, Gildas Boclé)

Editor’s Picks:

• The Election Commission of India (ECI) has put up the full list of donors who purchased electoral bonds and the political parties that encashed them
• Capable women, incapable states: negotiating violence and rights in India
• Chamkila and songs of resistance in Punjab
• Will unemployment be an issue for young voters?
• Why are Indians going to fight Russia’s war?
• Modi government’s insurance scheme pushes hospitals into debt – threatening patient admissions
• Bengaluru today, your city tomorrow
• Home Ministry’s ‘Positive Narrative’ on CAA is Full of Lies, Half-Truths and Really Bad Drafting
• Hair-plaiting for the Iranian resistance: Hoda Afshar’s best photograph
• End of India’s Experiment With Dual Citizenship? Home Ministry Reclassifies OCI Card Holders as Foreign Nationals
• Déjà vu, a film that depicts the chilling effects of corporate-contract farming, resonates with Indian farmer’s protests
• Sri Lanka’s Online Safety Act brings it a step closer to Buddhist theocracy
• Palestinian town of Jericho names street after US soldier who set himself on fire
• U.N. Rapporteur Francesca Albanese Urges Arms Embargo & Sanctions on Israel over War Crimes in Gaza
• Afghanistan’s singing sisters defying the Taliban from under a burka
• The unlikely species entangled in Ukraine’s resistance to Russia
• The cities stripping out concrete for earth and plants
• What Science Says About Walking 10,000 or 20,000 Steps a Day

(Coverpage artwork credits: Johannes Molzahn-Armariolo in Antisma 1939)