Table of Contents, Mainstream, Jul 15, 2026

In this issue

• Women Counted as “Employed” — But Actually Unpaid Family Workers | Deepa Palathingal, Palak Kunwar
• The RSS Registration Controversy: A Footnote | Partha S. Ghosh
• The unchanging evolution of the RSS on caste | Hrushikesh Tripathy
• Muslims in West Bengal: On the Road to Unfreedom? | Arup Kumar Sen
• Beyond Choice: Why Education Policy Must Serve the Common Good? | Adama Srinivas Reddy
• India’s New Cross-Border Insolvency Regime | Sandhya Sharma
• Gendered Leadership, Organisational Crisis & the Association of Malayalam Movie Artists Experience in Kerala | Jos Chathukulam
• Keeladi, Tamil Pride and India | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Article 30 and the Legitimacy of Minority Institutions | Malavika Menon
• CJP’S Flowers & the Politics of Public Memory | Abrar Nazir
• Rajasthan: Youth Clean Up Banas River | Bharat Dogra
• The Mirage of India’s ’Nuclear Renaissance’ | K Sahadevan
• The Chamber of My Heart / My Body / Bodies| Sagari Chhabra
• Gaza forgotten | Faraz Ahmad
• To the Anti-Militarists, Anarchists, and Free Thinkers | Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis

DOCUMENTS

• Socialist Party (India) supports demand of National Conference for restoration of full statehood for J&K
• CPI Demands Judicial Probe and FIRs Against Senior Functionaries in the Ayodhya Ram Temple Embezzlement Case
• Stop India-US trade agreement! —All India Kisan Sabha Press Release, July 13, 2026

BOOKS:

• Prabhakaran’s militarist strategy led to doom, says revealing book | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Review of Shastri’s Learning Across Continents: My Academic Odyssey | P. S. Jayaramu

IMAGE & SOUND

• Video report: Inside the Secret Network Fueling Sudan’s War" - Filmmaker Julia Steers on UAE Backing RSF Crimes
• Video: Looking back at British Miners’ strike of 1984

Editor’s Picks:

• Under the Citizenship Act of 1955, if your citizenship is questioned, the burden of proof lies on the state — not you
• From Lines on Paper to Lives on Ground
• Hindutva Loot of Ayodhya Would Shock Even Ghazni
• When governments refuse to talk, citizens will
• BNP Govt on Dhaka Risks Squandering India’s Trust
• Understanding the rise of Afrophobia in South Africa — and how we resist it
• Spreading Static
• Nigeria’s New Museum
• Green rhetoric, anti-environmental voting: legislative behavior in Brazil’s agribusiness caucus
• Polish-Ukrainian solidarity over Russian threat undermined by bitter historical dispute
• ‘The taboo within the taboo’: the parents sexually abused by their children
• ’Imperial obsession and reckless escalation: Vladimir Putin has never appeared so trapped by his fantasies’
• German MPs Join International Pressure on Israel Over Jailed Gaza Doctor Abu Safiya
• Chekhov, the Military Budget, and Endless Wars

Books of Note

• Digital Fascism: Media, Communication and Society Volume Four

* Coverpage artwork credits: Luis Scaliotto, Cuadrado, 1960)