Table of Contents, Mainstream, Aug 24, 2024

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In this issue

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Aug 24
• Setback to Congress Govt in Karnataka | J P Gadkari
• Interrogating a Case of Rape and Murder | Arup Kumar Sen
• Unchecked violence on women and children | Humra Quraishi
• The battle between Bhagwat & Modi has wider implications for rightist politics | Arun Srivastava
• Communal parties in India using the situation in Bangladesh to create communal polarisation | Suresh Khairnar
• India’s palm oil plans wreak havoc on the ground | Chellam, Chinai & Solo
• Bharat Mata Reimagined: Asexuality, Inclusivity and the Symbolism of Same-Sex Marriage Recognition | Disha
• The Echoes of Orwell in Today’s Political Landscape: A Warning from the Past | Pavittarbir Saggu
• Human Rights And Governance: Indicators And Audit Culture | Sunita Samal
• Ukraine War, Peace Proposals and India | P. S. Jayaramu
• French Politics In A Conundrum | Gouri Sankar Nag & Manas Mukul Bandyopadhyay
• State, No State, or the Missing State | Ajay Mishra & Shraddha Rishi
• Austerity and Managed Democracy | Sai Mukhesh
• The Truth about Kronstadt | Marie Isidine

DOCUMENTS:

• Text of Statement by Reclaim the Night Campaign, Kolkata
• Joint Press Statement by Central Trade Unions and Samyukt Kisan Morcha

BOOKS:

• How Western Generosity Helped Stalin Crush Hitler | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Sarah Foss. Review of Nolan’s, Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Photo: Huta Aluminium Factory, Konin, Poland (1966) by Aleksander JaÅ‚osinski
• Video: David Reich, "A Tale of Two Subcontinents: The Parallel Prehistories of Europe and South Asia"
• Curried Jazz - The Indo-British Ensemble - Fusion Jazz from 1969

Editor’s Picks:

• Bulldozer justice and the Indian state’s lawlessness
• The Pinochet Precedent: A Lesson for SEBI in Conflict & Propriety
• Allowing bureaucrats to join the RSS marks the final burial of India’s ‘steel frame’
• Women’s safety at workplace ignored for too long
• The kunwar and the comrade
• Migrants and Machine Politics – review
• 10 things India needs to know about Bangladesh
• What is a woman? Australian court rules in landmark case
• ‘We Took Care of the Network’
• Storytelling dreams and life: Traveling across worlds in the Amazon of Ecuador
• China’s rising youth unemployment breeds new working class: ’Rotten-tail kids’
• The industrial degradation of the workplace that Thorstein Veblen overlooked

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Books of Note:

• The Amateur: Self-Making and the Humanities in the Postcolony by Saikat Majumdar - Bloomsbury Academic | Jun 2024 / 232 pages | ISBN 9781501399886
• The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery by Randy M. Browne - University of Pennsylvania Press | May 2024 / Hardcover 9781512825862 | eBook 9781512825879

* (Coverpage Artwork Credits: Saul Steinberg - 1959)