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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, March 9, 2024

  9 March 2024

  * Hindu nationalism poses a threat to democratic politics in India & Nepal | Rana, Thapa & Pandey
  * War on Gaza: Millions of anti-war protestors are the hope for the future | Arundhati Roy
  * Political Polarization on Citizen Amendment Act and Campaign Strategies in Delhi Assembly Elections, 2020 | V.K. Sridhar
  * Some Aspects of the Southern Question (1926) | Antonio Gramsci

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, March 9, 2024

  9 March 2024

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, March 9, 2024
  India keeps the high distinction of being a deeply misogynist society with no signs of any decline in everyday sexual violence. On top of it over the past decade, we have been ruled by the BJP a socially reactionary political party exuding patriarchy from every pore. In the week gone by frontpage news splash was on the gang-rape of a Spanish woman, a cross-country motorbike rider who was on an overnight halt in Dumka in Jharkhand state from (…)

• Worship The Constitution, Rather than Books of Religion | Vijay Kumar

  9 March 2024, by Vijay Kumar

  Message on International Women’s Day from a Practicing Feminist - March 8, 2024
  Though I am a male, I have been advocating for women’s liberation and empowerment from a long time.
  All religions subordinated the women’s status. The Constitution of India, promulgated on 26th January 1950, was the first bold and principled document to uplift women — not only through the guarantee of equality embodied in Article 14 of the Constitution – but also from sub-clause (3) of Article 15 which (…)

• Saffron ecosystem exposes its design to destabilise Mamata and remove her from power | Arun Srivastava

  9 March 2024, by Arun Srivastava

  by Arun Srivastava
  Majority of the intelligentsia and illuminati, the conscience keepers, have been responsible for degeneration of secularism. ethical values and laying the red carpet for the majestic entry of the fascist and rightist BJP in the Indian polity. These people have been simply enjoying their adoration sitting in their ivory homes. They never bothered to caution or warn the political forces claiming to be secularists from digressing or taking the invasion of the rightist (…)

• Naveen Patnaik’s return to alliance with the BJP - Political suicide mission or electoral arithmetic? | Bhabani Shankar Nayak

  9 March 2024

  There are numerous sources of political leadership in Indian politics, spanning from familial political legacies to issues rooted in economics, society, and culture. Political leadership emerges from various quarters, including familial lineages, socio-economic concerns, religious affiliations, ethnic identities, cultural movements, linguistic divisions, and ideological mobilizations. Additionally, the evolution of market-driven democracies has ushered in leaders from corporate and (…)

• Domestic workers deserve workplace benefits | Divya Ravindranath

  9 March 2024

  March 06, 2024
  Employers provide direct financial or in-kind ‘support’ to their workers. In most households this is a form of benevolence, not an entitlement. This can change.
  Every day millions of women in India enter their employers’ homes and perform duties such as cooking, cleaning and child minding.
  Many work in multiple households. They work long hours doing menial tasks. They are poorly paid and — worse — despite being salaried employees, they have little or no protections from (…)

• Non-Violent Weapon | JP Gadkari

  9 March 2024, by J P Gadkari

  In our childhood, when the Freedom movement in our country had reached its peak and the Indian National Congress under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi was at the helm, our oldies were also inspired by it, though passively. I remember my grandfather used to sometimes utter a few lines of a then popular patriotic song which literally meant that the instrument used by Gandhi to make cotton thread called TAKLEE, has now become a threatening weapon for the Britishers who were then ruling India. (…)

• Mule accounts malpractices impede booming IPOs growth: SEBI to curb misdemeanor | Nand L. Dhameja, Manish Dhameja, Ridhi Khatter

  9 March 2024

  3/2/24
  Initial public offer (IPO) is a process which allows a company to raise funds from public for its growth and expansion. As the term stands it is the initial process of raising funds from the public as before this process the company would have been dependent upon promoters’ or private funds.
  As such, companies having grown by relying on the resources provided by the founders, their friends and families and relatives; but still need more funds to get bigger, they undertake a (…)

• Some Aspects of the Southern Question (1926) | Antonio Gramsci

  9 March 2024

  Unfinished, October 1926
  Text from Antonio Gramsci "Selections from political-writings (1921-1926)", translated and edited by Quintin Hoare (Lawrence and Wishart, London 1978). Transcribed to the www with the kind permission of Quintin Hoare.
  These notes were initially stimulated by the publication of an article on the Southern question by "Ulenspiegel" in the 18 September issue of the journal Quarto Stato, and by the somewhat comical editorial presentation which preceded it. (…)

• Achieving the Two-State Solution in the Wake of Gaza War| Jeffrey D. Sachs & Sybil Fares

  9 March 2024

  Peace can come through the immediate implementation of the two-state solution, making the admission of Palestine to the United Nations the starting point, not the ending point.