Table of Contents, Mainstream, Sept 21, 2024

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In this issue

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Sept 21, 2024
• The Chief Justice Must Be Like Ceasar’s Wife | Vijay Kumar
• A mother’s letter regarding work overload that killed her daughter | Anita Augustine
• Left’s Center Conundrum | Shubham Sharma & Satyanand Vatsa
• Metamorphosis of the Political Language in West Bengal | Arup Kumar Sen
• Right Wing Politics and Construction of Dalit Identity in India | Manoj Kumar Mishra
• ‘Prisoner No. 626710 is present’ – the curious case of Umar Khalid | Sagari Chhabra
• Suspense Over High Court Judgement to Prosecute Siddaramaiah | J P Gadkari
• Analysing India’s International Role Over The Decades | P. S. Jayaramu
• Unraveling the Contemporary Decision Making in International Relations: A Critical Analysis | Musssaib Rasool Mir, Santosh Kumar
• Diplomacy and Foreign Policy in the Age of AI: A New Frontier of Integrity and Truth | Santhosh Mathew
• Hostages be damned, Netanyahu out to expand the war | Faraz Ahmad
• War expanding to Lebanon . . . / India abstains from UN resolution calling for end to Israel’s unlawful presence in Palestinian territories | Humra Quraishi
• Sudan’s civilians urgently need protection | Jenna Russo
• Dimensions of Radical Political Emancipation | Yavor Tarinski

DOCUMENTS:

• Uttarakhand Situation - Statement by Citizens for Peace (Sept 13, 2024)
• Statement from Editor’s Guild on Bombay High Court striking down IT Amendment Rules 2023

BOOKS:

• Hao Chen Review of Price’s Cold War Deceptions

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Photo: Bedrich Grunzweig - Between Heaven and Earth, U.N. Building, New York, 1950
• Audio: Is it time for India to introduce a Universal Basic Income? Arun Kumar & N.R. Bhanumurthy
• Music: Bella Ciao in Persian | Yashgin Kiyani
• Movie: Naked City (1948) directed by Jules Dassin

Editor’s Picks:

• The Hindutva Lobby
• Slow Violence and the Gas Peedit in Neoliberal India
• How Sitaram Yechury Cautioned Against Modi Regime’s Insurrection Against the Constitution
• Constituent Assembly did not envision One Nation, One Election
• Bombay High Court strikes down IT Rules Amendment 2023 on fact check units
• Retrenched Maruti Workers on Indefinite Dharna at Manesar
• [Bangladesh This madness will be our undoing
• How a Bangladesh minister spent more than $500m on luxury property
• Sri Lanka: Anura Dissanayake is ahead; but predictions do not point to a clear leader
• ‘Shut up and dribble’ no more: US athletes juggle the interplay of sports and politics
• Between capitalism and socialism: Tugan-Baranovsky on cooperatives
• Alternative Organizational Survival: A Comparison of Two Worker-Recuperated Businesses in Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Snoring isn’t just a nuisance, it’s dangerous

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Books of Note:

• Spying in South Asia: Britain, the United States, and India’s Secret Cold War by Paul M. McGarr (Cambridge University Press / September 2024, Hardback ISBN: 9781108843676)

• Roots and Ruts: Reflections on the Early Indian Nation Kindle Edition
  by Debabrata Rej (Shuddhashar / September 1, 2024, ASIN: ? B0DFX97KXX)

* (Coverpage Artwork Credits: Color wheels. Page from the book "Tables for Color Science" by V. Zikeyev (1935) USSR )