Table of Contents - Mainstream, Oct 21 & 28, 2023

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Oct 21 & 28, 2023
• Assault on the Media: Subversion of Democracy | Arup Kumar Sen
• Mizoram & the upcoming state polls of Nov 2023 | Papri Sri Raman
• Diaspora Dynamics: India’s Global Footprint | S N Tripathy
• Nandini Satpathy: a moderniser who changed the political map of Odisha | Radhakanta Barik
• Average Indian Farmer is more of a Laborer today | SS Sangwan
• Problems of Working Class Colonies in Delhi| Bharat Dogra
• Pakistan: Women’s Action Forum (WAF) calls for immediate ceasefire to stop the genocide in Gaza
• Palestinian Knesset Member: Stop Netanyahu’s Rampage in Gaza | Jake Johnson
• Israeli-Hamas war: Need for a wider understanding | P.S Jayaramu
• Israel may win its battle against Hamas but has already lost the war | James M. Dorsey
• Happiness | A poem by Louise Gluck
• Mimesis | A poem by Fady Joudah

DOCUMENTS:

• Letter to Election Commission of India Regarding Infringement of Model Code of Conduct | E A S Sarma
• CASR Statement on repression of Palestinian solidarity demonstrations all over India
• PUCL Statement on Supreme Court ruling denies right to marry to the LGBTQ
• Supreme Court Ruling Denies Marriage Rights for LGBTQ+ | Binoy Vishwom (CPI MP)

BOOKS:

• Review of Vijay Kumar’s The Theory of the Basic Structure | Naveen Nath
• Review of Mansoor Khan’s ’ONE: The Story of the Ultimate Myth’ | T Vijayendra

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Cartoon: Military Robots versus Civilian Robots in Future of War | Nala Ponappaa
• Caricature: Tribute to Louise Gluck | Jayaraj Vellur
• Painting: Mother’s Embrace, 2013 | Nabil Anani
• Music: The Rolling Stones - It’s Only Rock ’N’ Roll (But I Like It) 1974
• Video: The Battle of Chile, The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie | Patricio Guzman

Editor’s Picks:

• Why the Places of Worship Act Must Be Preserved
• Tribal land alienation and Adivasis’ struggle for autonomy
• Seven Medallists at Tokyo, Seven Hundred Crowd the Podium
• With Strings Attached
• In the heart of Delhi, authorities take bulldozers to Muslim shrines with little warning
• The cost of protesting against mining in Gadchiroli
• ‘Only the rich can bear this heat’: how Dhaka is battling extreme weather
• All the Palestinians Got From Oslo Was KFC
• Israeli Weapons Industry’s Bottom Line: Ethnic Cleansing
• I lost my parents in the Hamas attack. My family want peace, not revenge for their deaths
• There Is a Jewish Hope for Palestinian Liberation. It Must Survive
• Amira Hass on the Gaza Humanitarian Crisis
• The War on Gaza and Israel’s Fascism Debate
• French schools to honour teacher fatally stabbed in ’terror’ attack
• Empire of Dust: How Xi Jinping’s ‘Red Empire’ dream crumbled into wasteland of abandoned railways, half-built bridges & roads to nowhere
• How Family Trauma Perpetuates Authoritarian Societies

* (Cover page artwork credits: Yuri Avvakumov - La tour rouge (1986-89) )