Table of Contents - Mainstream, April 13, 2024

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In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 13, 2024
• Ladakh Fights to Restore Statehood and Mountain Ecology | Soma Marla
• Murder in the campus | Sukumaran C.V.
• Who dare question judicial prudence? | Faraz Ahmad
• A Discourse on Public Trust in the Election Commission | Arup Kumar Sen
• Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES): Resolving Income Disparity Concerns | S N Tripathy
• The Diffusion of Obscenity and Pornography and the Courts of Law in United States | Sunita Samal
• Live-in lover law opens door to attacks on freedoms | Arpan Acharya
• India’s First Metadata case: Why Justice Sikri’s order on Adhaar project & Aadhaar Act is unconstitutional – Part 4 | Gopal Krishna
• 2024 Lok Sabha Elections: Some Thoughts | P S Jayaramu
• 2024 Lok Sabha Elections: Our Hope, Ourselves | Papri Sri Raman
• Fighting Hindutva Dictatorship in Indian Elections | Bhabani Shankar Nayak
• South Gets Ready for Poll | JP Gadkari
• Opposition Ruled States Under Stress Over Financial Dues from the Modi led Union Government | JP Gadkari
• Dr. Ambedkar: Moving from the Margins to the Mainstream | Pradyumna Bag
• Baikuntha Nath Acharya Outstanding educationist | Prof Radhakanta Barik
• Impunity in UP / Hindutva propaganda via Kerala Church | Humra Quraishi
• National elections in India are a good time to consider alternative paths | Bharat Dogra
• A Note about the Collective Memory of Anti-fascism since World War Two and its Revision | Bozo Repe
• My Life in the PLO The Inside Story of the Palestinian Struggle | Shafiq al-Hout

DOCUMENTS:

• Concern over 2024 Lok Sabha Elections: Open letter From Former State Officials to the Election Commission of India— April 11, 2024

BOOKS:

• Review of Kaplan and Illouz’s ‘What is Sexual Capital?’ | Emily Laurent-Monaghan
• Lukas Ley’s Review of The Pulse of the Earth by Adam Bobbette

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Photo: 1989 funeral of Andrei Sakharov, Soviet physicist, Nobel laureate
• Podcast: Trade unionist & lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj speaks of life behind bars
• Podcast: With or Without Hope — Hannah Proctor & Ajay Singh Chaudhary
• Documentary: Upstream Ganga - A 3000 km walk along the river | Siddharth Agarwal & Shridhar Sudhir
• Music: Tunga | Mamadou Diabate

Editor’s Picks:

• No action on Patanjali by Uttarakhand govt in 2 years over misleading ads
• Sadhguru’s recent surgery is a lesson for us all
• The old man and democratic reforms
• Why India’s South Rejects Modi — And Why It Matters
• Decoding Modi’s Statement on Muslim League “Imprint” on Congress Manifesto
• Out of depth
• Here’s what economists need to talk about: the phenomenon of underemployment
• (J)ust (N)ot (U)nderstood: Dismantling Of A University
• How ‘decolonial Hindutva’ marries nativist politics with left-wing vocabulary
• Wire Primetime - With Siddharth Will Congress Undo Modi’s Attacks on Press Freedom, Personal Liberties?
• What’s Good for India
• Colonial laws, postcolonial infrastructures: Land acquisition, urban informality, and politics of infrastructural development in Pakistan
• Women have found their voice in Turkey, and given hope to others fighting for democracy across the globe
• Shipping’s Shadow World
• Myanmar military faces humiliating rout on Thai border
• Clickbait Capitalism – Or, The Return To Libidinal Political Economy
• Regenerative agriculture, farming by numbers, and calculability in soil microbiopolitics

* (Coverpage artwork credits: Leon Gischia - Tête ocre et jaune, 1949)