Mainstream Weekly
Table of Contents - Mainstream, March 16, 2024
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In this Issue:
- Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, March 16, 2024
- CAA: A Tool of Hinduisation of Our Polity | Arup Kumar Sen
- CAA-2019 should be repealed | S G Vombatkere
- Anxiety in Modi Camp Over Rahul Yatra But Will He Take On BJP in Amethi | Faraz Ahmad
- Why should the government be involved in religious affairs? | Bajpai, Bandarupalli, Pandey
- Congress Party and the upcoming Lok Sabha polls | P S Jayaramu
- Munificent Spending Sinking States into Debt Trap | S S Sangwan
- MSP Guarantee and Crop Diversification | Jaglan & Kumar
- India’s rice trade at risk in Red Sea attacks | T S Maini
- Left parties’ in a fix over fascist forces & class enemies | Arun Srivastava
- Building a Superman Image To Fool The People | J P Gadkari
- CAA implementation, trouble ahead | Humra Quraishi
- Philanthropy of Ordinary People | Bharat Dogra
- CNDP Statement to Mark the Passing Away of Admiral Laxminarayan Ramdas
- Tribute: Ahmad Salim - a Punjabi poet who became a pul (bridge) between three Punjabs | Pritam Singh with Nuzhat Abbas
- Tribute: Aziz Qureshi - Memories of Mamu Saheb | Nazia Qureshi
- Tribute to Edward Webster: South African intellectual | Karl von Holdt
- China and India’s intense contest for influence | Jabin T. Jacob
- Global Transformational Trends | S N Tripathy
- ASEAN’s solution to Myanmar is at a tipping point | William J Jones
- Give It Away | David Graeber
DOCUMENTS:
- PUCL opposes the CAA as unconstitutional & discriminatory | March 13, 2024
- Opposition to CAA Notification Rules - Statements by Three Left Parties (March 12, 2024)
BOOKS
IMAGE & SOUND
- Lithograph: Working Woman | Chittoprasad Bhattacharya
- Audio: On Low Female Labour Participation in India
- Hindu nationalism and India’s coming elections | The India Report
- Music: Minor Voyage (feat. Flavio Boltro, Louis Moutin, Gildas Boclé)
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[rouge]Editor’s Picks:[/rouge]
- The Election Commission of India (ECI) has put up the full list of donors who purchased electoral bonds and the political parties that encashed them
- Capable women, incapable states: negotiating violence and rights in India
- Chamkila and songs of resistance in Punjab
- Will unemployment be an issue for young voters?
- Why are Indians going to fight Russia’s war?
- Modi government’s insurance scheme pushes hospitals into debt – threatening patient admissions
- Bengaluru today, your city tomorrow
- Home Ministry’s ‘Positive Narrative’ on CAA is Full of Lies, Half-Truths and Really Bad Drafting
- Hair-plaiting for the Iranian resistance: Hoda Afshar’s best photograph
- End of India’s Experiment With Dual Citizenship? Home Ministry Reclassifies OCI Card Holders as Foreign Nationals
- Déjà vu, a film that depicts the chilling effects of corporate-contract farming, resonates with Indian farmer’s protests
- Sri Lanka’s Online Safety Act brings it a step closer to Buddhist theocracy
- Palestinian town of Jericho names street after US soldier who set himself on fire
- U.N. Rapporteur Francesca Albanese Urges Arms Embargo & Sanctions on Israel over War Crimes in Gaza
- Afghanistan’s singing sisters defying the Taliban from under a burka
- The unlikely species entangled in Ukraine’s resistance to Russia
- The cities stripping out concrete for earth and plants
- What Science Says About Walking 10,000 or 20,000 Steps a Day
(Coverpage artwork credits: Johannes Molzahn-Armariolo in Antisma 1939)