Table of Contents - Mainstream, Jan 13, 2024

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 13, 2024
• Does Bilkis Bano verdict constitute an exception to the rule of capture of institutions | Faraz Ahmad
• Ban on demolitions needed in times of cold weather | Bharat Dogra
• Kerala Needs More “Mariyakuttys” | Jos Chathukulam
• The upcoming Lok Sabha Elections: Some Thoughts | P S Jayaramu
• Telangana state a new beginning for the welfare policy & development | Ashok Naidu
• Lok Sabha Elections 2024: A Perspective | Prem Singh
• Rising Communalism, Lynching & Social Suffering | Draik, Khan and Gupta
• An invisible killer hangs in the air of Asia’s cities | Karn Vohra
• The Agony of Sri Lankan People Continues | M R Narayan Swamy
• India gets a rude awakening in West Asia | M. K. Bhadrakumar
• Text of South Africa’s application at ICJ accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza
• Ukraine war increasingly seen as ‘fought by the poor’ | Wolff & Malyarenko

DOCUMENTS:

• Congress Party statement declining invitation to Ram temple inauguration
• CPI statement to the committee on one nation, one election

BOOKS:

• Book Excerpt: Hindutva, Pythagoras and the Zero | Prabir Purkayastha
• Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society
• Review writings on Gandhi | C Kumar
• Review of Hari Singh’s Looking Back with Delight | Subramanian

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Caricature: Tribute to Ustad Rashid Khan | Jayaraj Vellur
• Egon Schiele, Drawing of his desk the prisoner of war camp in Mühling, 1916
• Music: Hindi adaptation of “This Land is Your Land”
• Video: South Africa’s arguments at ICJ accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza
• Audio: Let It Come Down by Michael Robson | BBC Radio

Editor’s Picks:

• What the Mahatma would have made of the Chief Justice of India D. Y. Chandrachud
• Bilkis Bano: SC Sets Aside Gujarat Govt’s Order on Early Release of 11 Convicts
• Why The Cancellation of the Indian Science Congress, 2024, is Proper
• Truckers’ Strike Exposed How Hollow a Law Passed Without Consultation Is
• ’Being Coerced to Withdraw Case’: Workers Who Alleged Assault in Delhi Hospital
• Israel Accused of ’Effort to Intimidate the Judges’ Ahead of Genocide Hearings
• Gaza and the End of Western Fantasy
• Taiwan Who is running in Taiwan’s presidential race and what does it mean for Beijing?
• Russie. Address by President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin on the start of Russia’s BRICS Chairmanship – Kremlin
• Income Inequality in the United States, 1913–1998
• Spiritual snake oil
• The Politics of Pseudoscience: Power and Knowledge in Contemporary Russia
• Modified Spike mRNA: There Are No ‘Desired Proteins’
• Microplastics are everywhere: Is it possible to reduce our exposure?

(Coverpage artwork credits: Illusion - Harsh Kapoor, Jan 2024)