Table of Contents, Mainstream, Jun 1, 2026

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Mainstream, Vol 64 No 15, June 1, 2026
In this issue

• Guest Editorial: The Strange Myopia of West Bengal CPI(M) | Aditya Nigam
• Is the INDIA Block dying? | Faraz Ahmad
• Whither Indian Politics post-Bengal and Tami Nadu Results ? | P S Jayaramu
• The Cockroaches Have Arrived | Kaleem Ullah Fasihi
• Assembly Polls (2026) in Kerala:
 Spectacular Show by the UDF | M. R. Biju
• A Life’s Journey with the Constitution of India | Arup Kumar Sen
• Irrespective of Who Wins—The Corrupt Power-Nexus Remains | Sreedeep Bhattacharya
• Swachh Bharat Mission fails to capture the reality of untreated sewage & deadly sanitation labour | Amit Kumar
• Beyond Paper Leaks: The Deeper Crisis of NEET | Adama Srinivas Reddy
• Letter to the Editor: Recurring lapse by scholars in India | Arup Mahartana
• Political Representation, Caste Power, & the Silence at the Heart of the SEEEPC Exercise | Santhosh Juvvaka
• India’s Auto Industry Under War Pressure | Piyali Kumar, Utpal Kumar De
• Kerala’s Agrarian Crisis and the Search for an Ecological Future | Jos Chathukulam & A. M. Jose
• How the US Visa Policy Exacerbates India’s Oligopolistic Market and Inequality | Ajay Kumar Mishra
• How the US–China reset recasts the QUAD | Anuradha Chenoy
• The Wider Reality Missing in Most Discourse on Wars | Bharat Dogra
• The Intellectuals | Anton Pannekoek (1935)

BOOKS:

• Review of Harris’s Critical Theory and the Critique of Alternative Societies: Co-operatives, Mutual Aid and Universal Basic Income | Domonkos Sik

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Music: G. D’Alessandro: Overtura a 4 (Fonds Blancheton, Op. 5, No. 209)
• Documentary: Indigenous Seeds, Forests in Madhya Pradesh | Suma Josson
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Editor’s Picks

• ADR v Union (the SIR Judgment): We will not protect you
• Who is erasing Urdu in Kashmir?
• Erasing the Poor, Monetising the Land: Mumbai’s Demolition Drives
• Life under a Delhi flyover: how one homeless family endures the city’s extreme heat
• Introduction – new forms of anti-Muslim violence in India: Hindu Xenophobia in the post-instrumental Era
• Edgar Morin, ‘Grandfather’ of French Intellectuals, Dies at 104
• To Break the Siege

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Books of Note:

• Indian Victims of Stalin’s Great Purge by Pratyay Banerjee (Routledge, 2026, 126 Pages, ISBN 9781041234913)

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* Cover page artwork credits: Harsh Kapoor, Midnight notes June 1, 2026)