Table of Contents - Mainstream, Jun 22, 29 & July 6, 2024

This issue of Mainstream is dedicated to the memory of Karamat Ali, the most respected labour rights activist from Pakistan and a leading mover for peace in South Asia

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Mainstream, Vol 62 No 25, 26, 27, Jun 22, 29 & July 6, 2024

In this issue:

• Guest Editorial - Fear still stalks religious minorities | John Dayal
• India’s Eighteenth Parliamentary Poll and the Left in Decline
 | Sukla Sen
• BJP-led NDA Coalition Government: Continuity and Change | P. S. Jayaramu
• Rahul’s New Political Innings Marked By Shrewd Strategies! | Nilofar Suhrawardy
• Modi has to learn a lot from Vajpayee and Advani | Faraz Ahmad
• Nitish, Naidu’s transactional concerns take precedence over any socio-political issues | Faraz Ahmad
• Strengthening the Idea of Participatory Democracy in the Indian Context | Shalu Nigam
• BJD needs to Introspect the Assembly Results | Suranjita Ray
• Confrontation in Karnataka | JP Gadkari
• CPI’s Opposition to Priyanka Gandhi’s Candidature is Foolish | Ajayakumar Kodoth
• Controversy at Kolkata’s ICAI International Conference | S.G.Vombatkere
• Truth Made Topsy Turvey | J P Gadkari
• Link Whole Sale Price Index to Increase Crop MSPs | Soma Marla
• Emergency 1975: Was it Fascism? | Ram Puniyani
• Nature and Role of Middle-Class Today | Anil Rajimwale
• The Journey of Women’s Reservation in Nagaland | Bomito V Kinimi and K Gireesan
• India’s First Metadata Case: Why No to Bio-Political Tattooing through Aadhaar Number Online Database? Part 7 | Gopal Krishna
• Heat Wave Has Increased Awareness of the Urgency of Water Conservation Efforts | Bharat Dogra
• Rainbow Reflections: Pride Marches as Heterotopias of Liberation | Disha
• Winds of Change rock the Marginalised Lambani Community in Karnataka | Veerendra Kumar & Thippeswamy N
• Mechanization of popularity: Deciphering Nancy Tyagi’s virality on the internet | Twinkle Siwach & Mehak Dua
• What I’ve learned from Noam Chomsky | Beena Sarwar
• Spilling the Spanish beans | George Orwell (1937)

DOCUMENTS:

• Citizen’s Statement and Appeal for Action Against Rising Hate Speeches and Violent Crimes Against Minorities (July 1, 2024)
• CPI(M) Statement on Communal Assault on Muslims in MP, Chhattisgarh & UP (June 27)
• Tribute to Karamat Ali - Statement by PIPFPD India Chapter, June 21, 2024
• Safai Karmacharis should be protected from extreme heat - Safai Karmachari Andolan (June 20, 2024)
• Mere words cannot be criminalized in a democracy | PUDR (June 17, 2024)
• Withdraw the prosecution against Arundhati Roy & Dr Sheikh Showkat Hussain under the UAPA! | PUCL (June 15, 2024)

BOOKS:

• Will the Sun Shine Again in Manipur? | Arup Kumar Sen
• Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan wins the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024 | Ankhi Mukherjee
• Maxson on Cooley, ’The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance’

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Charlie Hebdo Cartoon when the French Communist Party abandoned the concept of ’Dictatorship of the Proletariat’
• 1987 Interview with Leszek Kolakowski
• Video: Science Is Reconsidering Evolution
• Music: Mari Boine - Vuoi Vuoi Mu (Vuoi Vuoi Me)

Editor’s Picks:

• Labor rights, peace activists from across India, Pakistan mourn demise of activist Karamat Ali
• Labour rights activist Karamat Ali laid to rest
• New Criminal Laws Which Kick in July 1 Will Create Legal, Judicial Mess, Endanger Life & Liberty
• NCERT row
• Lathis, threats and Gunshots
• To Think of Modi 3.0 as Less Dangerous Would Be a Misreading
• Valsan Thillankeri and how the Sangh grows in Kerala
• How the Modi regime targets people overseas
• The National Testing Agency is a scam – shut it down now!
• Remembering Dhirendra Sharma, quintessential dissenter and academic-activist
• Outraged Brazilian women stage protests against bill to equate late abortions with homicide
• A cycle of debt, sex work and cocaine: the women in West Africa caught in Europe’s drugs trail
• How Britain’s Labour Party Became Electable Again
• Migrants on exhibition: The emergence of migrant worker museums in China as a neoliberal experiment on governance
• Experiencing forced migration: challenges of arriving after displacement from Ukraine
• Ozempic: Reshaping Desire Since 2023

* (Coverpage artwork credits: Lithograph by Chittaprosad )