Table of Contents, Mainstream, July 27, 2024

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In this issue

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jul 27, 2024
• Union Budget 2024-25: Primacy of Political Compulsions | P. S. Jayaramu
• Budget 2024-25: An Aura of Words for States other than Bihar & Andhra Pradesh | SS Sangwan
• Celebrating Sovereignty of People | Suranjita Ray
• Elections 2024: Democratic Ethos & Plight of Minorities | Ram Puniyani
• RSS-BJP Struggle Intensifies | Arun Srivastava
• Tribute to Samar Bagchi | Suresh Khairnar
• This Bengali ritual is a cure for loneliness | Ananya Chatterjee
• Will Delhi live another life?| Jeevesh Gupta
• Yes, the Subaltern Speaks! | Ajay Kumar Mishra
• Why fewer cities are game to host the Olympics | Alexandre Faure
• Thousands evicted in Paris ahead of 2024 Olympics | Bharat Dogra
• Toward an Explanation of the Radical | David S. D’Amato

DOCUMENTS:

• Statement by Radical Socialist on the raging student movement in Bangladesh
• CPI Welcomes Supreme Court Stay on Discriminatory Orders along Kanwar Yatras Routes
• Statement by General Secretary AITUC on the Union Budget 2024
• With per capita allocation of Rs.638/- health budget a joke | IDPD
• Union Budget 2024-25 for Corporatisation of Agriculture | Samyukt Kisan Morcha
• Budget Statement 2024-25: We The People Deserve A Better Government | NTUI

BOOKS:

• Scholarly Inauguration Of New Genre Of Biography | Vijay Kumar
• The lessons from Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday misery | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Chandrashekhar Azad - latest biography of an iconic revolutionary | Chaman Lal

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Painting: United Nations Secretariat Building | George Grosz (1950)
• Photo: Dilip Kumar watching a film with Alfred Hitchcock
• Video: Garibi Hatao? Poverty, Development and the State in India’s Long 1970s | Srinath Raghavan
• Music: Meute - The Man With The Red Face (2019)

Editor’s Picks:

• Video: 2024 Union Budget Decoded
• Union Budget 2024-25 — no signs of learning
• Budget 2024: For the social sector, it is old wine in an old bottle
• Kerala woman set on fire by husband fights odds to return as HC Lawyer
• Karnataka govt plans to extend working hours of IT employees, Unions resist move
• DTE Reportage: Tanker economy revealed
• Supreme Court Stays UP & Uttarakhand Govt Direction To Eateries On Kanwariya Route To Display Owner & Staff Names
• Ban lifted on govt employees’ participation in RSS activities sparks row; Cong says ‘bureaucracy can come in knickers’
• Letting govt officers take part in RSS will spell disaster for governance
• Why RSS is a political organisation — and shouldn’t be allowed to infiltrate the bureaucracy
• Bruised, Battered, Targeted, Undaunted: Bangladesh’s Students Will Not Bow
• Escalation into the dark
• Bangladesh: Further video and photographic analysis confirm police unlawfully used lethal and less-lethal weapons against protesters
• Fined for yellow and blue shoes: How Russian laws smother dissent
• France: deadlock in NFP – take the fight to the streets!
• In Fassouta
• Peru puts political scion Keiko Fujimori on trial for money laundering

* (Coverpage Artwork Credits: Tarsila do Amaral - Sao Paulo (1924)