Table of Contents - Mainstream, Jun 15, 2024

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Mainstream, VOL 62 No 24, June 15, 2024

In this Issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, June 15, 2024
• Decoding the Lok Sabha Elections Verdict | P. S. Jayaramu
• Historic Blunder An analysis of the defeat of BJD in Odisha | Manas Behera
• Odisha’s First-Ever BJP CM’s Track Record | S N Sahu
• Mystery over Bhagwat’s apparent rebuke to Narendra Modi | Arun Srivastava
• NDA in Power 2024: Whither Hindu Nationalism? | Ram Puniyani
• What NDA 3.0 Should Do to Relieve Rural Distress | Soma Marla
• India’s new government faces job creation challenge | Biswajit Dhar
• Jobs, bread butter issues instead of communal talk . . . | Humra Quraishi
• Unveiling The Racism In India | Tamanna Yadav
• Exciting Ten Days | J P Gadkari
• Democratic Indiaah! | L K Sharma
• Poem: Encounter Specialist, God-man | Murzban Jal
• Impact of Heat Wave on Birds & Animals | Bharat Dogra and Reena Yadav
• Huge Water Shortage in India’s National Capital | Gyan Pathak
• The Built-in Inequality in India’s Social System | Ajay Kumar Mishra
• Tuberculosis Among Young People in India | Sonu Chauhan
• Foucault’s Framework: Pride Month, Heterotopias, Counter-Conduct and Election 2024 | Disha
• SAPAN letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi - June 11, 2024
• Against Leninism | Tom Wetzel

DOCUMENTS:

• IDPD demands high level investigation in the irregularities in NEET

BOOKS:

• Review of Vanya Bhargav’s Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Review of Timothy Lorek’s Timothy, Making the Green Revolution: Agriculture and Conflict in Colombia | Javier Puente

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Photo: Statue of the Erudite Indian Socialist Acharya Narendra Dev
• Poster: Women Return from Work and Start Working Again
• Podcast: Value In Motion | Beverley Best & Aaron Benanav
• Documentary: Nothing Grows Forever - The lessons to learn from nature
• Music: Ney - Kianoush Khalilian - Constantinople Concert, Kiya Tabassian, Montreal, Canada, "Breathing"

Editor’s Picks:

• BJP and NDA Lost In Nearly Half The Seats Where PM Narendra Modi Held Rallies
• Too ill to work, too poor to get better: how debt traps families working at India’s kilns
• Assembling India’s Constitution: Towards a New History
• Stop the Damocles’ sword of three new criminal laws from falling upon us, Indira Jaising beseeches new Union law minister
• A Hindi Professor’s Harassment by ABVP Shows Near-Complete Takeover of Universities by RSS-BJP
• No One Can Restrain Adults From Marrying As Per Their Will: High Court
• A South Asian Union is Essential to Address Future Environmental Challenges
• Glued to Hitler: what Brecht’s overlooked collages tell us about how fascism takes hold
• A manifesto for science: building a more resilient and prosperous future
• The surprising mental health and brain benefits of weight-loss drugs
• Global Water and Its (Anti)Political Consequences
• Big Banks Have Funded Climate Crisis With Nearly $7 Trillion Since Paris Agreement
• U.S. Jury Orders Chiquita to Pay $38 Million to Families of Colombians Killed by Paramilitary Group
• How Members of the Chinese Diaspora Found Their Voices
• Home-bound precarity: home violence on return Indonesian migrant domestic workers

* (Coverpage Artwork Credits: Nicolas de Staël - Footballers (1952))