Table of Contents, Mainstream, Aug 25, 2026

In this issue:

• Some Materials On Gandhi And Business | Anil Nauriya
• Jadavpur University is the Target Now | Arup Kumar Sen
• Low pay has a long political memory | Pritam Singh & Bill MacKeith
• Mars Mission? Yes! More Investment in Healthcare? No! | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Politics of Gen Z and the return of Coffee houses | Radhakanta Barik
• The Legal Architecture Of India’s Investment Screening Regime | Lakshmi Karlekar and Tanishaa Pandey
• Arms to Israel and the death of Indian foreign policy | John Dayal
• The state as political form of capitalism | Divya Rashmi
• Burkina Faso: From Sankara to Traoré | Nagender Madavaram
• The Infrastructures of Domination, Circulation Is the New Exploitation | Hojat Ghalandari
• Daniel Ortega: A revolutionary who once held promise | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Manufactured Certainty: When Absolute Logic Serves Capital | K. Sahadevan
• The Tyranny of Outcomes: Bureaucracy, Productivity, and the Crisis of Meaning | Yavor Tarinski

DOCUMENTS:

• AITUC Statement on the Supreme Court’s Jai Bir Singh Judgment
• Letter to the President of India - Request to return the MMDR bill 2026 to parliament for reconsideration

BOOKS:

• How Erdogan Turned Turkey into a Fiefdom | M.R. Narayan Swamy

IMAGE & SOUND

• Video: John Berger "The Benjamin’s theories: Art in Mechanical Reproduction" Ways of Seeing, Episode 1 (1972)
• Music: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, Bombay, India, 1963

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  Editors’ Picks:

• Employment guarantee has slipped into limbo
• Sumit Sarkar, the historian who didn’t lose hope
• Upper Assam’s flood catastrophe is a direct result of river and mountain grabbing
• Marieme Hélie-Lucas (1939-2026): Transnational Feminist Solidarity, Secularism, and Resistance to Fundamentalism
• To Iran’s political prisoners, trapped ‘between two blades of a scissors’ —Open letter
• They are Coming for the Penguins: Artem Ivanovich Kirpichenok is in a Shin Bet Prison in Israel
• Inverted Eurocentrism

Books of Note:

• Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back by Joshua Clark Davis (Princeton University Press, 2025, 432 pp., (hardcover), ISBN 9780691238838)

* (Cover page artwork credits: letters and stuff, collage Harsh Kapoor, Aug 2026)