Table of Contents - Mainstream, May 18, 2024

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Mainstream, VOL 62 No 20, May 18, 2024

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, May 18, 2024
• The Grant of Interim Bail To Arvind Kejriwal by The Supreme Court Furthers The Basic Structure Of The Constitution: A Response To Amit Shah’s Comment | Vijay Kumar
• 2024 Lok Sabha Elections: Looking beyond possible numbers | PS Jayaramu
• Double Speak by PM Narendra Modi | JP Gadkari
• Red alert: How cinema helps the Modi myth | Sayandeb Chowdhury
• How big money finances Indian politics | Swagato Sarkar
• Naveen Patnaik’s Attempts to Saffronise Odisha | Radhakanta Barik
• Kejriwal’s 10 guarantees are pure populism & one-upmanship | Arun Srivastava
• Disappeared women & girls / Speeches of leading political personalities in the past compared to the twits who rule today | Humra Quraishi
• The Promise and the Peril of LGBTQIA+ Rights | Disha
• Unrest in West Bengal After the Court Verdict on the Teacher Recruitment Scam | Sujit Kumar Paul, K. Gireesan
• Ramanaya in Tagore’s Views | Jayanta Kumar Ghosal
• India’s Water Woes: Governance to Sustainability | S N Tripathy
• Poem: The Death of Nojendranth | Murzban Jal
• Campus protests in US & Europe are welcome signs of sensitizing education | Sandeep Pandey
• Afghanistan’s Economy Will be in Tatters in the Foreseeable Future | Manoj Kumar Mishra
• When and Where Will Israel’s Aimless, Endless War End? | Bharat Dogra
• Wind Energy Development, Conflict & Resistance | Alexander Dunlap, Mariel Aguilar-Stoen

DOCUMENTS

• ECI must disclose authenticated record of voter turnout figures - Citizens Petition (May 1, 2024)
• Letter to Election Commission —Editor’s Guild 15 May 2024

BOOKS:

• The Artist as A Quiet Creator | Arundhaty Nayar
• Essential and Fascinating Facts about Indian Elections | M.R. Narayan Swamy

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Caricature: Tribute to Alice Munro | Jayaraj Vellur
• Photo: Devika Rani, Rabindranath Tagore, Himansu Rai in Berlin (1931)
• Painting: Erich Borchert - Sailors (1932)
• Documentary: The Boy in the Branch | Lalit Vachani (1993)
• Video: Tribute to E P Thompson | Tariq Ali
• Music: Johann G. Goldberg: Concerto for Harpsichord & Orchestra in D minor

Editor’s Picks:

• How Hate Has Been Normalised, Behaviourally and Institutionally, in Modi’s India
• Bulldozer Raaj song [in Bangla]
• The man who took on the coal industry to save a forest - and won
• Judicial activism vs. climate crisis
• Direct tax collections reflect disparities
• China due to free vlogger who filmed Wuhan lockdown
• A new South Africa health law aims at deep inequality, but critics say they’ll challenge it
• Is Israel Committing Genocide?
• Alice Munro obituary
• Poisoning the American Mind: Student Protests in the Age of the New McCarthyism
• Could the US economy be doing too well?
• Echoes of Silence: The Politics of Generational Memory in East Germany’s Literary Intelligentsia
• Marx and the many lives of Marxism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
• Starvation as a weapon of war must stop
• Vibration isolation could boost performance of near-infrared organic LEDs

* (Coverpage artwork Credits: Lothar Schreyer O.T. (Gleichgewichtsstudie) 1923)