Table of Contents - Mainstream, April 6, 2024

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In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 6, 2024
• The chilling effect of the Prime Minister’s intervention on the arrest of opposition leaders on the eve of elections | Vijay Kumar
• Misleading People On Kachatheevu Island is Cheap Politics | JP Gadkari
• Reading the Biography of an Underworld Don | Arup Kumar Sen
• United INDIA-bloc vs BJP! | Nilofar Suhrawardy
• Narendra Modi may cripple the opposition before 2024 polls | Arun Srivastava
• Implications of Two Child Limit laws in Haryana & Rajasthan | Gopal Krishna
• On 2024-25 Budgets of Punjab & Haryana | Sher Singh Sangwan
• Schools Feeding Recruitment for India’s Defence Forces, Being Run by the Hindutva Right-Wing | Astha Savyasachi
• Medical System out of sync with People’s Needs | Bharat Dogra
• The Economic Case for Same-Sex Marriage Recognition in India | Disha
• Schools with a slant get big | Humra Quraishi
• Saffronisation of education only for corporate interest | Jayanta Kumar Ghosal
• Films building up Majoritarian Narratives: Swatantraveer Savarkar | Ram Puniyani
• Unveiling India’s Literacy Journey When Census Data Isn’t Available | Vachaspati Shukla
• Growth, Employment & Youth: Policy Implications | S N Tripathy
• Equality of What? | Amartya Sen (1979)

DOCUMENTS:

• Party Manifestos for 2024 General Elections - Indian National Congress / Communist Party of India (Marxist) & Communist Party of India

BOOKS:

• It’s All About Modi, Only Modi | Papri Sri Raman
• Review of Markus Rediker et. al. (eds.) A Global History of Runaways | Mark Dunick

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Photo: The third entomological meeting at Pusa, New Delhi in 1919
• Cartoon: Cow Mata | Nala Ponnappa
• Cartoon: Your Greed is hurting the economy! | Nick Anderson
• Podcast: Christophe Jaffrelot Unpacks The Narendra Modi Legacy
• Animation film: Happiness | Steve Cutts

Editor’s Picks

• Poverty-decline claims need rigorous scrutiny
• RSS pracharak as ’professor of practice’ under national scheme
• The jailing of NewsClick’s Prabir Purkayastha shows there was never a golden age of justice in India
• An Indian state is using blockchain to collect DNA data of 50 million citizens
• Labour segmentation in NCR Delhi’s automobile sector
• The final assault on Constitution
• Live-in couples in smalltown India have it rough – Varanasi to Vadodara, Aligarh to Alwar
• Video Reportage: Uttarakhand: The Making Of A ‘Hindu-Only’ Devbhoomi
• How dubious YouTube ‘news’ channels are boosting Modi in India’s election
• No ’Labharthi’, Citizen Must be Seen as a Verb
• How a tree-hugging protest transformed Indian environmentalism
• Indian government ordered killings in Pakistan, intelligence officials claim
• The Brutality of Sugar: Debt, Child Marriage and Hysterectomies
• Amnesty International’s 10-point Human Rights Charter for Pakistan
• Mother and Tata | Stephen Smith
• It happened so it can happen again -a journey through Auschwitz
• Garden Variety Nazis
• Is Donald Trump a Fascist?
• The Brazilian farm workers exploited to harvest an everyday ingredient
• All That Is Solid Bursts into Flame

* (Coverpage artwork credits: Rétrofusées rotatives - Jean Perdrizet 19 November 1973)