Mainstream Weekly
Table of Contents - Mainstream, Dec 16, 2023
In this issue:
- Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Dec 16, 2023
- New Constitution: A Fig Leaf for Hindu Rashtra | Vijay Kumar
- Diplomatic blow to India as Biden turns down invite | M K Bhadrakumar
- High-Interest Microfinance by NBFCs: A Challenge to Commercial Banks | S S Sangwan
- Urban Poor Finding It Increasingly Difficult to Meet Basic Needs | Bharat Dogra
- Climate Crisis, Human Suffering, & Hope: A Global Perspective | S N Tripathy
- Citizens Memo on Elections / Palestinian Poet Refaat Alareer | Humra Quraishi
- Revisiting Pathaan | Alok Ranjan, Sanjana K.S.
- Ahimsa’s Song | Sagari Chhabra [14092]
- Sri Lanka: The Future of Sinhala Buddhist Nationalism | Shashik Silva & Ammaarah Nilafdeen
- Why don’t we do what matters? The world should demand that Norway uses its oil wealth for a green future | Erik Solheim
- A contribution to debate on left renewal and transformation
DOCUMENTS:
- PUCL Statement on Expulsion of Mahua Moitra | 13 Dec 2023
BOOKS:
IMAGE & SOUND:
- Cartoon on Food Court | Nala Ponnappa
- Cartoon: People of Gaza (Dec 2023) | Gros
- Photo: Jawaharlal Nehru at the International Congress against Colonial Oppression and Imperialism, Brussels (1927)
- Music: Lost Land by Rain Sultanov
- Talk: Data Can Be Dangerous - Risks & Harms | Dr Alexa Hagerty
- Documentary: States of independence - the scramble for Africa
[rouge]Editor’s Picks:[/rouge]
- What sealed BJP’s victory in the Hindi heartland
- Brinda Karat writes: Mahua Moitra is a political opponent. As a woman, I stand with her
- Article 370: Understanding history, legal contexts and why it matters
- SC verdict on Article 370, and its impact on asymmetric federalism
- Ominously anti-federal: On the Supreme Court’s judgment on Article 370 and J&K’s special status
- Video interview: CPM leader Y. Taragamani on Amit Shah’s allegations & the SC ruling on Article 370
- Is Bangladesh heading toward another ’one-sided’ election?
- Juergen Habermas Contradicts His Own Ideas When It Comes to Gaza
- Latin America’s Resurgent Right
- Republicans to meet allies of Hungary’s Viktor Orbán on ending Ukraine aid
- The Dubious Feminism of the Natural Childbirth Movement The Dubious Feminism of the Natural Childbirth Movement
- Xi Jinping vs. Genghis Khan: CCP expands efforts to colonize history of the Mongol people by disappearing Chinggis himself
- The Forgotten Dreams of History-from-Below
- Javier Milei’s Agenda
* (Coverpage artwork credits: Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson - Loading the Ship (1917) Lithograph)