Table of Contents, Mainstream, Sept 7, 2024

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In this issue

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Sept 7, 2024
• A Tribute to a Critical Scholar of Jurisprudence | Arup Kumar Sen
• Noorani was far more than a legal luminary & intellectual | John Dayal
• Bid to Target Kharge in New Land Scam in Karnataka | J P Gadkari
• Communal poisoning unleashed daily by our rulers | Humra Quraishi
• Neoliberal Hegemony: Compromised Reform, Suppressed Revolution | Ajay Mishra, Shraddha Rishi
• Morality in Premchand’s Kafan: For Dalits or Anti-Dalit? | Pragya Ranjan
• The Challenges & Opportunities for Women in Haryana | Apoorva Redhu
• MonkeyPox as New Risk to Public Health | Gouri Sankar Nag
• Engineered cells & bacteria offer hope for diabetes, arthritis | Das, Arunima and Banerjee
• Small Modular Reactors: Will they change anything? | S.G.Vombatkere
• India-Pakistan Peace & Friendship March of Aug 2024 | Sandeep Pandey
• Our Reckless World Leaders | Bharat Dogra
• Bangladesh was ready to explode | Shahidul Alam
• Peasant Centric Makhnovist Frame in the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917-21 | V. S. Lozovyi

DOCUMENTS:

• CPI Statement on Supreme Court Ruling regarding Bulldozer Justice

BOOKS:

• Review of Dixit’s Bombay After Ayodhya | | Joydip Ghosal
• Smith on Moseley, ’Marx’s Theory of Value in Chapter 1 of Capital: A Critique of Heinrich’s Value-Form Interpretation’

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Photo: Soviet Workers Club designed by Alexander Rodchenko (1925)
• A documentary film on the life & work of CV Raman
• Video: Minorities & the future of Indian Politics
• Music: Sinfonia in C Major, G.33: I. Allegro · La Serenissima · Giuseppe Torelli | Adrian Chandler

Editor’s Picks:

• The Indian villages with rooftop sculptures of planes, tanks and cars
• Modi’s Ignorance About What India’s Foreign Policy Was in the Past Is a Bad Augury for Its Future
• File noting of order lifting ban on government officials joining RSS ‘classified’: Department of Personnel and Training
• India’s student suicide rate has surpassed overall trend, population growth rate: Report
• India’s Path to Food Security Has No Quick Fixes
• Karnataka’s deteriorating soil quality is a looming crisis for agriculture & environment
• ‘Too Many, Too Few’: Reproductive Politics in India and US Are Two Sides of the Same Coin
• India became the fifth leading country of origin for individuals granted asylum in the United States
• The AfD has stunned Germany – but this was no surprise victory
• You can’t manage what you can’t measure†: Regenerative agriculture, farming by numbers, and calculability in soil microbiopolitics
• The Devaluation of Essential Work: An Assessment of the 2023 ILO Report
• Nearly 20,000 pushed back to Niger in crackdown on migrants, NGO
• Huge SpaceX rocket explosion shredded the upper atmosphere
• Albert Einstein: Political Profile Of A Radical Scientist
• The State of Global Air 2024

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Books of Note:

• Leftist Internationalisms: A Transnational Political History | Michele Di Donato (Anthology Editor), Mathieu Fulla (Anthology Editor) | Bloomsbury Academic - Feb 2023 | ISBN 9781350247918 )

* (Coverpage Artwork Credits:Rene Magritte - La table (1937))