Table of Contents - Mainstream, Jan 6, 2024

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 6, 2024
• Returning Magsaysay award & US degrees over US role in war on Gaza | Sandeep Pandey
• India and the World: Loud claims, little ground support | Apratim Mukarji
• Article 370 Judgment a Blow to Federalism, Constitutionalism | Vijay Kumar
• The Bharatiya Sanhitas – Sedition on Steroids? | S.G.Vombatkere
• An invitation to embrace reason | Jawed Naqvi
• Equal treatment in the eye of the law - 1876 Katwaroo Death Case | A K Biswas
• Modi’s Attempt to Woo Christian Community | Ram Puniyani
• Remembering Chandra Shekhar | Jeevesh Gupta
• Decoding the Blips in the Post Office Bill, 2023 | Nisha Mishra
• Telecommunications Act, 2023 | Manoj Chugh & Shyam Sunder
• Rich Gods, Poor People & Religious Expenditure in Odisha | Bhabani Shankar Nayak
• The Path to Low-Carbon Cities: The SEED Formula | S N Tripathy
• Zero Debt Companies are Financially Stable | Dhameja, Dhameja & Khatter
• Nepali journalists’ solidarity with Gaza colleagues counters dominant narrative | Himali Dixit
• Beating Swords into Ploughshares, or What A No-war Future May Involve | Bharat Dogra
• Gene editing has arrived | Merlin Crossley
• Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom | Fredy Perlman (1983)
• Reviewing the experience of Italy in the 1970s | Toni Negri
• Poem: Dear Isaac Do you Remember? | Murzban Jal
• Poem: Christ Came On Christmas | Sagari Chhabra

DOCUMENTS:

• Christmas Celebration with the PM is Not in Our Name! - Statement Jan 4, 2024
• CPI(M) won’t attend the Ram temple inauguration - Press Release Dec 26, 2023
• Press Release from Sewage Workers Public Hearing
• Broadcasting bill - EGI statement
• Women’s organisations Statement to Prevent Sexual Predators from Returning to the helm of wrestling

BOOKS

• On the Murder of the Rap Singer Moosewala | J Ghoshal
• A Marvel that Indian Cities Once Were | M.R. Narayan Swamy

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Caricature Tribute to John Pilger | Jayaraj Vellur
• Cartoon: If You Export Arms, Dont Complain over War Refugees
• Cartoon: Hey Camera, Keep the Focus [on Modi]
• Documentary: Why are autocrats popular? - Assault on democracy
• Rear Window: A Life of Dissent - The Life and Work of E. P. Thompson
• Music: Gandhi - Magic Malik

Editor’s Choice:

• Facets of India’s Illiberalism
• First Read: The Telecom Bill, 2023 is on Santa’s evil list
• The unconstitutional trinity— Part 1: Examining the unholy ‘ghost’ of BNSS
• The New Criminal Laws & the Challenges Ahead
• Bharat Nyaya Yatra and Challenges of Restoring Faith in Justice
• What is driving the huge surge in Indians illegally migrating to the United States?
• Mixing religion with politics
• The acquiescent Indian
• How the Quicksand of Counter-Insurgency Operations Has Hurt Indian Army’s Core Value
• US Foreign Policy Is a Scam Built on Corruption
• The Biden Administration Is Quietly Shifting Its Strategy in Ukraine
• Surviving the Crackdown in Xinjiang
• The End of Enlightenment by Richard Whatmore review
• Critical engagements with “Climate Change as Class War”—towards a politics of better
• India: Damning new forensic investigation reveals repeated use of Pegasus spyware to target high-profile journalists
• India’s Aditya 11 Space Probe heads for Gravitational Island
• Moscow court hands long jail terms to two men for reciting poetry
• Marx for Primitives

* (Coverpage Artwork Credits: Francoise Gilot - The Camouflaged Man, 1951)