Table of Contents - Mainstream, Aug 5, 2023

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Aug 5, 2023
• Militant capitalism, bad infinity, and the longing for total revolution | Dilip Simeon
• Westinghouse reactors for Kovvada, AP Letter to Chair DAE | E A S Sarma
• Tracing the Genealogy of Contemporary Hindutva Politics | Arup Kumar Sen
• Growing Signs of RSS indoctrinating Police personnel | Arun Srivastava
• India’s 2024 General elections: Who is the opposition Prime Ministerial candidate? | Thirunahari Seshaiah
• Women Of Manipur | Sagari Chhabra
• Illegal Migration Act: Implications for asylum seekers and migrant populations in the UK | Sona Singh
• Thai democracy faces the elephant in the room | Pavin Chachavalpongpun
• Reducing the Risks of Nuclear War — The Role of Health Professionals | Abbasi, Ali, Barbour, et al
• The Story of an Atomic Bomb Survivor in Hiroshima | Masaya Nemoto

DOCUMENTS:

• AIKS Press Release on Communal Violence in Haryana (Aug 3, 2023)
• CPI Press Release on Shooting of Train Passengers & Violence in Haryana
• CPI(M) Press Release on Communal Violence in Haryana (Aug 1, 2023)
• Press Release from Progressive Parties (Maharashtra) 28 July 2023
• Press Release & Resolutions FEDCUTA (24 July 2023)

BOOKS

• Book Excerpt: Hindi Cinema and Society | Bharat Dogra and Madhu Dogra
• Spirituality in Indian Freedom Struggle | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Rise of Hindutva Politics and Crisis of Congress Party | Badre Alam Khan and Sanjay Kumar
• Book Launch Video: Interest and Capital: The Monetary Economics of Michał Kalecki by Jan Toporowski

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Artwork: Not your Muse | Sukhvinder Shahi
• Audio: Life & Work of Annie Besant | BBC4
• Music: Fight the Real Enemy - War by Sinead O’Connor

Editor’s Picks:

• Sitaram Yechury on Attack on Federalism and Autonomy of States
• Five Years Without an Elected Administration: Human Rights in Jammu and Kashmir
• Feminist icons or violent vigilantes? on the contentious role of Meira Paibis in Manipur’s conflict
• Sri Lanka’s exodus of healthcare workers
• Teenage Mothers in Brazil
• Rising domestic violence is a hidden front in Ukraine’s war
• Russian Historian Resists Dictator Stalin’s Rehabilitation
• Which dietary supplements actually work and which should you take
• There’s no such thing as a new nuclear golden age–just old industry hands trying to make a buck

* (Coverpage artwork credits: Clare Leighton - Loading the boat - ‘Bridge of San Luis Rey’ Wood engraving, 1929)