Table of Contents - Mainstream, May 4, 2024

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In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, May 4, 2024
• The False Feel-Good About Indian Economy’s Performance Since 2014 | Arun Kumar
• Repeated Violations of the Constitution by the Modi Regime | S N Sahu
• What does round one of 2024 Lok Sabha Polls in Karnataka signify? | P. S. Jayaramu
• Modi for flaring up social polarisation to reverse the voting trend in his favour | Arun Srivastava
• 2024 General Elections: Frustration leads to Desperation | JP Gadkari
• Supreme Court Needs to Relook at the EVM-VVPAT Judgement | Sandeep Pandey
• India uses national interest as a smokescreen to muzzle the media | Simran Agarwal
• India’s Chromium Boom: Ecological Concerns & Social Imbalances | S N Tripathy
• A Green Day – Manifesto For a Greener Delhi | Jeevesh Gupta
• India’s First Metadata case: Part 6 | Gopal Krishna
• Rising Pro-Palestinian Student Protests in American Universities | Soma Marla
• Palestinian-Israeli conflict: Break out of exclusivist ethnonationalism | Nira Yuval Davis
• In Praise of Resistance | Eqbal Ahmad
• Leon Trotsky | Paul Mattick (1940)

DOCUMENTS:

• Letter to Ministry of Environment to roll back Green Credit Rules
• Radical Socialist on 2024 Parliamentary Elections in India
• Statement by Society of Communal Harmony - May 1, 2024

BOOKS:

• Review of Alpa Shah’s The Incarcerations | Anand Chakravarti
• Freeman’s Review of Elizabeth Flock. The Furies: Women, Vengeance, & Justice

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Newsclip: BG Horniman Editor of Bombay Chronicle deported in 1919 over report on Jallianwala Bagh massacre
• Video: ’Nehru’s Other India’s’ by Professor Priya Satia
• Documentary: Manipur a Blot on India Democracy | Anto Akkara
• Documentary: Brazilian Coup of 1964 - Cold War
• Music: Pingouins sur la banquise | Francois De Roubaix

Editor’s Picks:

• Saving the Constitution is an electoral issue — as it should be
• Outrage Over PM Modi’s Communally Divisive Narrative
• Meat, Mughals, Maoists, and Now Mangalsutra
• Economic Ideology in Indian Politics: Why Do Elite and Mass Politics Differ?
• UP students pass exam after writing ’Jai Shri Ram’ on paper, professors under fire after re-evaluation
• What’s behind a dramatic fall in Indian families’ savings
• Inequality can no longer be ignored
• Can the Congress build on the BJP’s fascination with its manifesto?
• Chipko a distant memory
• Liberalism didn’t protect Salman Rushdie
• ’Their Culture Teaches Them Hatred)
• The Reorientations of Edward Said
• We need an exodus from Zionism
• Race, gender, and Occidentalism in global reactionary discourses
• No Need to Panic about Covishield News
• Imperialism’s Shell Game
• Nobel Prize-winning economist calls for a climate tax on billionaires
• Brazil floods: State of emergency in Rio Grande do Sul
• Nuclear power’s expansion risks collapse on widening conflicts
• The vast ravines swallowing whole neighbourhoods around the world
• Why doing science is difficult in India today
• Quiet! Our Loud World Is Making Us Sick

* (Cover page Artwork Credits: Saul Steinberg - The New Yorker, November 2, 1961)