Table of Contents - Mainstream, Jun 1, 2024

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In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, June 1, 2024
• India’s decade of democratic deficit | Avinash Kumar and Puja Rani
• The Fantastic Marionette (WiP) | Papri Sen Sri Raman
• BJP’s electoral strategy: its inner contradictions could lead to its failure in 2024 | Pritam Singh
• UP politics is taking new turn like 1977 | Barik, Malik & Maurya
• The Possible Electoral Outcome and its aftermath | P S Jayaramu
• Meditation As An Act of Public Spectacle | Vijay Kumar
• Observations on Elections in Himachal Pradesh | Rohit Kumar & Kavita Sharma
• One Year of Congress Govt in Karnataka | JP Gadkari
• 2024 Indian Parliamentary Elections: Structures Beneath the Surface, ‘Choreographic Occultation’ and Authoritarian Personality | Neshat Quaiser
• Narendra Modi, Authoritarianism and ‘God Complex’ | Ram Puniyani
• Weak but sensible voices should be listened to in the path of democracy | Prem Singh
• His Holiness Lord Narendra Modi’s Penance | JP Gadkari
• Direct Taxes, Growing Disparity & Need for Redistribution | Arun Kumar
• Malady of ‘Judicial Activism’ in West Bengal | Arup Kumar Sen
• Say Yes To Me | Jeevesh Gupta
• The Politics Of The Bicycle Lane | T. Vijayendra
• Post-Humanism | Sunita Samal
• Poem: The Scream | Murzban Jal
• An Anti-War Statement by Soldiers that is Inspiring for Peace Activists | Bharat Dogra
• The Left in Spain: An Overview | Martin Alonso Zarza

DOCUMENTS

• India: Independent Election Observers (IEO) - Interim report of the Citizens Watch process in the national Capital city (May 31, 2024)

BOOKS:

• Review of Salman Rushdie’s Knife | Rishav Sharma
• Review of Iqbal S. Hasnain’s Fault Lines In The Faith | P S Jayaramu

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Poster by Josep Obiols for the collectivised urban public transport of the CNT, Barcelona, 1936
• Documentary: Eric Hobsbawm - The Consolations of History
• Video: Phyllis Bennis Calling Out the US for Arming Isreal’s Genocide in Gaza
• Movie: Taste Of Cherry (1997) | Abbas Kiarostami
• Music: Save Mama Goa - Sigmund de Souza

Editor’s Picks:

• The Shifting Trajectories of Hindutva: Bharat Sevashram Sangha and the Making of a Saffron Wave in Contemporary West Bengal
• The way that Narendra Modi weighs
• The fake news divide: how Modi’s rule is fracturing India
• How India’s elections are dividing the nation
• India elections: PM Narendra Modi claims he has been chosen by God
• Sale of breast milk raises eyebrows
• How Four Hindu Nationalist Websites Make Their Money
• Jharkhand Family’s Tragic Loss Highlights Flaws In Ayushman Bharat Scheme
• Epicentre of Multidimensional Poverty
• Rotten Bananas in a Scorching India Expose Climate’s Food Cost
• Understanding the internationalization of Indian state-owned enterprises
• Sargodha police rescue 2 Christian families from mob, arrest 15 men
• A poverty of hope among Sri Lankan Tamils
• The current hegemony
• ANC at a crossroads as South Africa goes to the polls
• The failing ANC is rejected by over half of South Africa
• A sense of optimism and the chance to chat: how Bogotá is giving respect to unpaid carers
• Italian Neorealist and New Migrant films as dispositifs of alterity
• Time to listen to women about their pain