Table of Contents - Mainstream, Dec 2, 2023

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Dec 2, 2023
• End 2023 State Assembly Elections: Issues & portends for future | P S Jayaramu
• Will the Congress learn from this defeat | Faraz Ahmad
• Kerala’s Economic Conundrum: Decline of Industries & the Exodus of Youth | S N Tripathy
• Shelter & Facilities Needed at Gathering Points of Daily Wage Workers | Bharat Dogra
• Telangana politics: A case of cultural hegemony debunked | CR Annapurna
• Cricket, Rat-Miners & Indian Secularism! | Nilofar Suhrawardy
• India’s First Metadata Case and Pegasus - Part 2 | Gopal Krishna
• Ghoomer - The Persistent Struggle of a Differently Abled Cricketer | Jeevesh Gupta
• Poems: When the epitaph is written; Homework | Sagari Chhabra
• Write My Name | Zeina Azzam
• Left and Right: The Significance of a Political Distinction | Norberto Bobbio
• Gaza and the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict | Matthew B. Hallinan

BOOKS:

• The Missing Bridge between Two Volatile Classes | Papri Sri Raman
• Review of Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, The Afterlife of the ‘Soviet Man’

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Photos: Peasant & Worker Trade Unions mobilisation of Nov 2023
• Cartoon: COP28 Conference on Climate Crisis in Dubai | Jeremy Banx
• Music: Andy Narell And Relator - Take Yuh Meat Out Meh Rice
• Audio: The Blackpool Detective by Peter Whalley

Editor’s Picks:

• Bar on evening classes for girls is likely to derail many a dream
• Tunnel collapse in Uttarakhand is part of a bigger problem in the Himalayas
• Bypassed, manipulated, ignored: How Modi govt has curtailed Parliamentary Committees
• Have reckless cowboys replaced ‘Kaoboys’ of yore?
• Old Censorship on a New Medium
• The hypocrisy of our concern for workers trapped in Uttarkashi tunnel
• Developing resilience against emerging climate change normal of the
  hydro-geological hazards in Western Himalaya, India
• Thousands of protesters demanding restoration of Nepal’s monarchy clash with police
• The awful horror of the Hamas-Israel war is creating deep divisions close to home
• Whatever your view of the Israel-Hamas war, rape is rape
• ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza
• A Bitter Season in the West Bank
• Raped during Ethiopia’s war, survivors now rejected by their families
• Mikhail Kasyanov: Russia labels ex-PM and Putin critic ’foreign agent’

(Cover page Artwork Credits: Howard Cook, Stamping Small Ship’s Parts in Sheet Metal Shop, n.d.)