Mainstream Weekly
Table of Contents, Mainstream, Jun 25, 2026
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In This Issue
- Assessment of PM Modi’s 12 Years of Rule | Arun Kumar
- Arrival of Giorgio Agamben in West Bengal | Arup Kumar Sen
- The Commemoration of 250 Years of Epochal Declaration of The American Independence In A Time of Backsliding of Democracy | Vijay Kumar
- Politicians switching sides to buy the BJP’s protection insurance against legal (vindictive) action | Arun Srivastava
- Beyond Enumeration: Reframing the Meghalaya Socio-Economic Review 2025 through Doughnut Economics | Jos Chathukulam & A M Jose
- Why India Needs Impact Assessment Before Passing New Laws | Aftab Mohammad
- Aruna Roy’s Many-Sided Contributions | Bharat Dogra
- Labour Value in Indian Knowledge Economy | Soma Marla
- Out of Sight, Out of Credit: Why ’Firm Distance’ Matters for the Northeast, India | Ashraf Rehman
- Trademark and Political Symbol: Protection of Freedom of Speech and Expression | Sunita Samal
- Weaponizing Water Bankruptcy in the Age of Neo-Capitalism | Gopabandhu Dash
- The troubled memory of marital domesticity in Indian women’s verses | Adrita Mukhopadhyay
- The Discomfort of Being Seen Structurally | Disha
- From shame to reflection: A journey from trauma to empowerment | Anindita Pramanik
- Loyalty without leverage: India’s US tilt yields little | Anuradha Chenoy
- End the “Green” Delusions: Industrial-scale Renewable Energy is Fossil Fuel+ | Alexander Dunlap
BOOKS:
- Sustained from Below: Dalit Women and the Ambedkarite Movement’s Limits of Liberation | Theertha Praveen Panachoor
IMAGE & SOUND:
- Video Recording: Zia Bhai 100th year —Remembering the Communist Party Office in Allahabad (2006) | Sohail Akbar
- Music: Habibi Funk - Charif Megarbane - Dreams of an Insomniac (Lebanon 2025)
Editor’s Picks:
- Looking for Public Transport Alternatives
- Modi’s Obsession with Headline Management Won’t Buy Him the Immortality that He Craves
- Newsclick: A Courageous Voice for People’s Struggles
- On democratising forest governance...the unfolding saga....
- Editorial on future of Opposition alliances as defection hollows out regional parties
- No FIR, ‘culprits will escape’: Ayodhya fumes over Ram Mandir ‘scam’
- The Pig Butchers Of KK Park
- Jean Dreze awarded the Global Inequality Research Award (GiRA) during the World Inequality Conference, Paris
- Luxury Muzhik
- Historian & French resistance fighter Marc Bloch gets top state honour
- We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way
- The historical evolution of contract and status in Chinese labor law
- The Inertia of Russia’s War
- Dumpster diving and street scavenging: audience perception of informal circular practices presented by YouTube vloggers
- Safety Is When There’s No One Dying
- The Destruction of Reason and the Rise of Ecofascism in the United States
- Forms of Attention
Books of Note:
- From the Factory to the World: The Global Marxism of Antonio Negri by Elia Zaru (Brill, 2026)
- Shared Sacred Sites in South Asia: Negotiating Coexistence and Belonging
(editors) Laurent Gayer, Christophe Jaffrelot, Aminah Mohammad-Arif, Grégoire Schlemmer (Oxford University Press, September 2026 )
* Cover page artwork credits: Painting by David Hockney - Rain, from The Weather Series 1973 )