Mainstream Weekly
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:
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
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[rouge]Editor’s Picks[/rouge]
- 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
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* (Coverpage artwork credits: Rétrofusées rotatives - Jean Perdrizet 19 November 1973)