Table of Contents, Mainstream, Aug 3, 2024

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Mainstream, Vol 62 No 31, August 3, 2024

In this issue

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Aug 3, 2024
• Will there be a Change of Guard in Karnataka?| J P Gadkari
• Letter regarding the lifting of the "ban" on Govt. employees taking part in the activities of RSS | E A S Sarma
• Should Government Employees be Allowed to Join RSS?| Ram Puniyani
• Making the People of the Kashmir Valley Second-Class Citizens | Arup Kumar Sen
• Observations on Kashmir Today | Suresh Khairnar
• Ambani Wedding: The Need for State-Regulation in Indian Capitalism | Gilbert Sebastian
• Public perception on Naveen Today | Radhakanta Barik
• Knowledge Without Borders | Sunita Samal
• Understanding New Modes of Environmental Governance | Prakash C.J
• Union Budget 2024-25: Twists and Turns | Atul Sarma
• Energy Sector Initiatives in Union Budget 2024-25 | Hiranmoy Roy and Anil Kumar
• New India, Old Beginnings! | Subhash Gatade
• The Psychological Structure of Fascism | Georges Bataille

DOCUMENTS:

• Restrictions on journalists inside the Parliament| Statement by DUJ
• Union Budget 2024-25 - Press statement by Platform of Central Trade Unions
• Press release on Waynad Disaster 30 July 2024 | AIKS

BOOKS:

• Review of Aruna Roy’s Memoir | Bharat Dogra
• Review of Jaya Mehta (Ed.) Russian Revolution and the Indian Freedom Struggle | K.S.Chalam

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Photo: Karabo Mooki - Soweto Skateboarders (2016)
• Music: Bulldozer Raj - Song in Bengali by various artists
• Wounded Hills: A documentary on the environmental issues of the Western Ghats
• Documentary: In Search of Palestine - Edward Said’s Return Home

Editor’s Picks:

• Great Nicobar Island Is a Paradise in Danger
• ‘Wayanad is proof Govts have no interest in protecting nature’
• The ‘flying rivers’ causing devastating floods in India
• 50 jobs, 30 years: The unseen labour of an Indian female worker
• Dead ‘Maoist’ talking: The aftermath of a security operation in Chhattisgarh
• Nobody knows what I know’: how a loyal RSS member abandoned Hindu nationalism
• How PSU Bharat Immunologicals went from polio hero to zero. No vaccines, unpaid workers
• Indian Railways flip-flops between luxury facilities and mass travel needs
• Election Commission Must Respond to Doubts Raised Over Lok Sabha Polls by VFD Report
• Deepening the degrowth planning debate
• Israel’s Self-Destruction
• ‘I can’t justify this military operation any more’: the IDF reservists refusing to return to Gaza
• Freed Russian dissidents refused to sign plea for mercy from Putin
• Complex life on Earth may be much older than thought
• Atomic Fallacy: Why Nuclear Power Won’t Solve the Climate Crisis

New Books of Note:

• A. G. Hopkins, Capitalism in the Colonies: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851–1931

* (Coverpage Artwork Credits: Atsuko Tanaka - Untitled Painting (1956)