Table of Contents - Mainstream, Jun 8, 2024

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Mainstream, VOL 62 No 23, June 8, 2024

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jun 8, 2024
• Modi’s grip on power slips | Bharat Bhushan
• India bestirred, a political era ends | L K Sharma
• ‘Shehzadas’ triumph over Shah and Shahenshah | Faraz Ahmad
• The climb down of Humpty Dumpty what a relief! | Vijay Kumar
• Decoding the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections Verdict | Gilbert Sebastian
• Vibrant India | Sukumaran C.V.
• Wah, what a grand fight against the right-wing forces! | Humra Quraishi
• “Modi-wave†Spells Electoral Setback for BJP! | Nilofar Suhrawardy
• Agenda Setting for the BJP-led NDA Government | P. S. Jayaramu
• West Bengal Poll Verdict: Triumph of Populism | Arup Kumar Sen
• Modi’s Divine Status Washed Off | J P Gadkari
• Hinduism trips Hindutva: A lesson for Modi | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Setback After Lok Sabha Poll Debacle in Karnataka | J P Gadkari
• 2024 Lok Sabha Election Results: Message for the Future | Prem Singh
• Letter to the Prime Minister regarding removal of statues of Ambedkar, Gandhiji and Shivaji from the Parliament Premises | Binoy Viswam
• Death of A Migrant Worker | Bharat Dogra
• Remembering Dabholkar: No Justice is Injustice | Jawaharlal Jasthi
• Tibetan Refugees & Indian Society | Beena
• Am I Drinking Enough Water? Sneezing’s A Clue | Ronald Bleier
• Eugen Sandow was the poster boy of physical culture| Francois Cleophas
• Roman Rosdolsky (1898–1967) | Jairus Banaji

BOOKS:

• A Candid Autobiography of a Chief Minister | Joydip Ghosal

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Caricature: Tribute to BRP Bhaskar | Jayaraj Vellur
• Video: Tales of the Unexpected: gender equality and social progress in Bangladesh (2016)
• Short Film: Afternoon Clouds by Payal Kapadia
• Music: Gabriel Faure: Apres un reve (1878) | Sheku Kanneh-Mason

Editors Picks:

• Multiple fractures
• Interview with Arun Kumar on Outcome of 2024 India’s General Election
• The roads to India’s redemocratisation, the challenges
• Lok Sabha results and voting trends
• How SP managed to stun BJP in Uttar Pradesh despite Ram Temple hype
• Billionaire-Friendly Modi Humbled by Indians Who Make $4 a Day
• Didi’s feisty women brigade that is set to storm Parliament
• In TN’s Garment Factories, Heat Stress Is Leaving Women Workers Sick, Fatigued
• Taliban open to cooperating with Germany on deportations
• Crackdown at Tiananmen Square, 35 years ago
• Junta waging war on Myanmar’s doom-loop economy
• Europe’s Invisible Provinces
• What Is at Stake as the European Union Swings Right?
• Song: Defeat Zionism, Long Live my Palestine!
• Damning Evidence: Russia’s Culpability in Ukraine’s Biggest Ecological Disaster Since Chernobyl
• South Africa enters the second wave of xenophobic violence [2022]
• How Anecdotes Sell Drugs: On the 30th Anniversary Edition of Peter Kramer’s “Listening to Prozacâ€
• Parkinson’s disease could be prevented by a recent tetanus vaccine

* (Cover page artwork Credits: Kurt Schwitters - Konstruktion des Raumes (Merzzeichnung). 1921)