Table of Contents - Mainstream, May 25, 2024

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Mainstream, VOL 62 No 21, May 25, 2024

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, May 25, 2024
• Will 2024 Results Spell A Change or Not? | Nilofar Suhrawardy
• ‘Ayega to Modi hi? But how? | Faraz Ahmad
• Booth-wise data on total number of votes polled not made public - Letter to Chief Justice of India | Lubna Sarwath
• Farmers’ Agitation & Reshaping of the Electoral Landscape in Haryana | Mahabir Jaglan
• 2024 General Election Rallies ... | Humra Quraishi
• BJP’s War Against Muslims | Arup Kumar Sen
• Nadda on BJP-RSS relations: Father, Son and Political Equations | Ram Puniyani
• Divine Status of Modi | J P Gadkari
• Political Economy of Mass Higher Education: A Warning Call | Arup Maharatna
• Decolonising museums is not as easy as you’d think | Hemanth Kadambi
• Letter to Minister for Railways regarding safety & security of railway employees | Binoy Viswam
• The growing promise of cancer vaccines | Bidyut Sarkar
• Making of the Indian Constitution | L.S. Hardenia
• The Mass Psychology of Misery | John Zerzan

DOCUMENTS:

• Protect outdoor workers from extreme heat & provide disaster allowance | NAPM
• Fault lines in the RBI’s surplus transfer to government | AITUC
• NAJAR appeals for full and fair disclosure of voter turnout data by ECI

BOOKS:

• Choices, Priorities, Freedoms and Mahbub ul Haq | Aijaz Ahmed
• Commanding prescription for furthering justice through privileging politics over economics | Vijay Kumar
• Marais’s Review of An Introduction to the History of Chronobiology by Jole Shackelford

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Audio: Pavitra Sundar speaks on her book Listening with a Feminist Ear
• Audio: The Coming Storm - Episode 8 -BBC4 (28 Feb 2022)
• Music: The Doors - Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)

Editor’s Picks:

• Narendra Modi ’a Textbook Autocrat with Totalitarian Goalsâ€
• ‘He likes scaring people’: how Modi’s right-hand man, Amit Shah, runs India
• Manifesto of the Green Party of India (2024)
• Revealed: Meta-approved political ads in India that incited violence
• How Baba Ramdev and associates used a tax-free charity to park Patanjali investments and funds
• Building a Civilization State
• Sharda Ugra dissects the growing influence of Indian politics on Indian cricket
• An interview with Yamini Aiyar on the BJP’s “new welfarism†in India
• Those who die making crude bombs get ‘martyr’ tag in Pinarayi Vijayan’s Kerala, provided they belong to CPM
• 9 years after launch, India’s solar skill training scheme yet to find its place in the sun
• India’s heat action plans exclude the most vulnerable: Report
• Armies of young insurgents are changing the course of a forgotten war
• 8th SOS alert on Gaza - Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention
• Report of the Panel of Experts in International Law
• Salman Rushdie says a Palestinian state formed today would be ‘Taliban-like’
• Legacy Effect of Soviet Budgeting System on Public Capital Budgeting: Cases of Russia, Moldova, and Uzbekistan
• Confronting global infrastructural capitalism: the triple logic of the ’vanguard’ and its inevitable spatial and class contradictions in China’s high-speed rail program
• Henri Lefebvre’s Marxian ecological critique

* (Coverpage artwork credits: Franz Kline - untitled 1954)