Table of Contents - Mainstream, Oct 14, 2023

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream Oct 14, 2023
• Interim Report of the People’s Commission on Land Acquisition and Police Repression in Dhinkia Region
• Gulab’s Struggle against Honour Killing Needs Help | Bharat Dogra
• A Political Man: Memories of Ranajit Guha | Dilip Simeon
• Karpoori Thakur: Social Justice and Its Limits | Thakur and Bhattacharjee
• Sustainable Consumption & Production versus Green capitalism: What really counts? | Geeta Sinha
• Can we fight Zionism, not Jews? | Jawed Naqvi
• Provoking underdog Palestine is fraught with Hamas retaliation | Faraz Ahmad
• Statement on the Israeli-Hamas War | CPDCS
• For a Lasting Peace, End the Nakba Now - Statement from Progressive International
• Is the hegemony of dollar waning I Syed Kamran Ali
• A Child Speaks From Gaza | Sagari Chhabra

COMMUNICATION:

• Letter to the Editor: Why bash the Left? in response to Pritam Singh’s Interview | Indu Agnihotri

DOCUMENTS:

• False Allegations on Farmers Movement in Newsclick Case Statement from Sanyukt Kisan Morcha
• Radical Socialist Statement on Modi Govt Crackdown against NewsClick
• Withdraw the prosecution against Arundhati Roy & Showkat Ali - PUCL

BOOKS:

• Why Doesn’t India Wage War Against Tax Havens? | M.R. Narayan Swamy

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Photo: Lula da Silva, President of ABC Metalworkers Union Brazil in 1979
• Audio: What happened after the Oslo Accords handshake | Hanan Ashrawi and Yossi Beilin
• Music: The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and the Barenboim-Said Akademie

Editor’s Picks:

• Discredited the Voluntary Carbon Market in India
• M S Swaminathan Obituary
• NewsClick non-case: On the strange case of a terrorism FIR without a terrorist act
• How the government covered up the severity of Teesta floods by blaming them on a ‘cloudburst’
• Video Explainer: OCCRP Investigation Report on Overinvoicing by the Adani Group
• Pakistan’s ’shameful’ first Miss Universe contestant
• Blowback: How Israel Went From Helping Create Hamas to Bombing It
• How Israel Helped to Spawn Hamas
• Quick Thoughts on Israel, Palestine, and the Left in this Dark Moment
• Statement from Jewish Voice for Peace
• Beauvoir and Lorde confront the honorary man trope: Toward a feminist theory of political resistance
• Claudia Goldin wins Nobel economics prize for work on gender pay gap
• Who profits most from America’s baffling health-care system? Hint: it isn’t big pharma

* (Cover Page Artwork Credits: Mourning woman holding a child (detail), from Kathe Kollwitz, Memorial Sheet of Karl Liebknecht (Gedenkblatt für Karl Liebknecht), 1919–20)