Table of Contents, Mainstream, Aug 17, 2024

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In this issue

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Aug 17
• Nehru’s vision of our flag: Text of speech in the Constituent Assembly
• Intensifying brutalities in our everyday / Rays of Hope | Humra Quraishi
• Rape & Murder In Kolkata Hospital | Kobad Ghandy
• The Church, and India at 77 | John Dayal
• Free thinking on the occasion of 77 years of independence! | Suresh Khairnar
• Azaadi and where do we go from here? | Sagari Chhabra
• A New Model of Employment Creation in Rural India | Sunil Ray
• Haryana Government’s Exploitative Temporary Employment Policy| Som Nath & M.M. Goel
• India’s palm oil plans wreak havoc on the ground | Ravi Chellam
• The Many Faces of Fascism in India | Vidyarthi Vikas
• Unheard Voices of Autonomous Colleges | Justine George & Savitha K.S
• Algorithm of July Rebellion in Bangladesh | Gouri Sankar Nag
• India Must Wake Up to A Destabilizing South Asia | Nandita Chaturvedi
• On Riots in the UK | Nilofar Suhrawardy
• The roots of the UK’s unrest lie in the warping of genuine working-class grievances | Kenan Malik
• If a wider war in the Middle East actually starts, will it be bigger than is commonly believed? | Bharat Dogra

DOCUMENTS:

• IDPD Statement on Kolkata Hospital Case & Women’s Workplace Safety

BOOKS:

• Motivated Attempt To Denigrate The Constitution | Vijay Kumar
• When Two Ancient Cultures Fall In Love | M.R. Narayan Swamy

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Caricature: Tribute to Natwar Singh | Jayaraj Vellur
• Painting: A man and woman cooking food together by a Murshidabad artist (1780-90)
• Podcast: How Bangladesh’s longest-serving leader was toppled by student protests
• Music: Totó La Momposina - Yo me llamo Cumbia
• Movie: Summertime (1955) directed by David Lean

Editor’s Picks:

• Those who die making crude bombs get ‘martyr’ tag in Pinarayi Vijayan’s Kerala, provided they belong to CPM
• ’The Skeletons of Private Sector’ Madhabi Buch Wanted to Unearth as SEBI Chief are in Her Cupboard
• The Idea of MadhyadeÅ›a in Early India
• Bangladesh: ’Md Yunus and Students Call the Shots Now, Not Army; Attacks on Hindus Mostly Ended’
• The Limits of Anti-Nuclear Critique in Pakistan
• 37 Square Feet That Show Brazil’s Racist Past
• Nusantara: Celebrations planned in Indonesia’s costly ‘symbol of progress’
• Erasing Palestine in Germany’s Educational System
• German arrest warrant over Nord Stream blast mystery
• A Newly Translated Oral History Reveals Krautrock’s Antifascist Roots
• Why is there a spread of violent far-right protests in the UK?
• Can Britain really keep the rise of the populist right at bay? History tells us it can
• Why human brain cells grow so slowly
• Maxine Singer obituary
• History Heroes: Marc Bloch

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Books of Note:

• Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power by Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Trere (The MIT Press | ISBN: 9780262547420)
• Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment by David Scott (Duke University Press | Paper ISBN: 978-0-8223-3444-6)
• Miners Against Fascism: Wales and the Spanish Civil War by Hywel Francis (Lawrence & Wishart | ISBN: 9781907103513)

* (Coverpage Artwork Credits:Eduardo-Mac-Entyre, Untitled22, (1950)