Table of Contents, Mainstream, Aug 31, 2024

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In this issue

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Aug 31, 2024
• How the RSS is using the Kolkatta rape case to mobilise | Arun Srivastava
• The Inegalitarian Regime of NFS (Not Found Suitable) and Discriminatory Lateral Entry | Amit Kumar
• India Needs Healthy Expressions of Masculinity to Curb Rape Culture | Adfer Rashid Shah
• Narendra Modi’s search for opportunity in disasters! | Suresh Kahairnar
• Reshaping India with disdain for humanity | Humra Quraishi
• Census Operations Are Starting In September But The Data Collection Process Must Improve | Tirthankar Mitra
• How human rights are disappearing before our eyes | Suhas Chakma
• What is driving the largest women-led rights movement in Balochistan’s -recent history? | Abdullah Zahid
• Wider Lessons of the Debt Crisis of Pakistan | Bharat Dogra
• Boko Haram Kidnappings in Nigeria | Rehman, Areesh Kumar & Ghosh
• What the Indian Left Should Learn from Raya Dunayevskaya | Murban Jal

DOCUMENTS:

• Text of Citizens Statement Against Sexual Violence From Kolkata to Manipur, Gujarat, Uttarakhand, Bihar, UP . . .
• Statement against Sexual violence - Central Trade Unions and Samyukt Kisan Morcha
• Hema Committee Report constituted by the Govt of Kerala on various issues faced by women in cinema (Dec 2019)

BOOKS:

• For Others’ Sins, Ordinary Afghans Suffer | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Thom Loyd. Review of Iandolo, Alessandro, Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955–1968

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Caricature: Tribute to A.G. Noorani | Jayaraj Vellur
• Film Still: Chikankari workers of Lucknow in ’Anjuman’ directed by Muzaffar Ali (1986)
• Music: Georges Delerue - Tendre Poulet
• Audio/Video: Looking Back at Grunwick the 1976-78 Strike in the UK

Editor’s Picks:

• Malayalam Film Industry: Implement Hema Committee Report
• 81 Indian rivers, tributaries have extremely high concentration of one or more heavy metals
• A.G. Noorani (1930-2024): Eminent constitutional expert and prolific writer is no more
• Three Million - Road to the Past
• Experts from 3 nations urge India to refrain from interfering in domestic politics of their countries
• ‘Frightening’ Taliban law bans women from speaking in public
• Holey Artisan’s ‘Deepto Shopoth’ sculpture smashed, replaced with banned Hizb ut-Tahrir poster
• Bangladesh probes enforced disappearance by security forces
• Marseille museum opens up naturist exhibition to nude visitors
• A Hotter Russia
• How militia groups capture states and ruin countries: the case of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces
• In Tim Walz, Kamala Harris gets a trump card to trump Trump
• Microhistory as Industrial History: Environment, Sugar Capitalism and Labour in Egypt, 1863–1879
• Why Sudan’s catastrophic war is the world’s problem

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Books of Note:

• Plant Thinkers of Twentieth-Century Bengal by Sumana Roy (Oxford University Press / 17 July 2024 | Online ISBN: 9780198929314 | Print ISBN: 9780198929284)

* (Coverpage Artwork Credits: Wassily Kandinsky - Upward (Empor), 1929)