Table of Contents, Mainstream, Sept 28, 2024

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In this issue

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Sept 28, 2024
• The Fantasy Of ‘One Nation One Election’ | Vijay Kumar
• The Siddaramaiah phenomenon in Karnataka Politics | P. S. Jayaramu
• BJP’s fake breast-beating over crime against women | Faraz Ahmad
• Climate Change and Ecological Alternatives | Soma Marla
• What’s at stake as Kashmir goes to the polls | Mohsin Raza Khan & Shashank Ranjan
• A commendable decision by the Telangana Government for the Trans Community | Thejaswini Ambrose
• Our Double Faced Political Rulers | Humra Quraishi
• Ensuring Integrity in University Leadership: GIPE’s Path Forward | S N Tripathy
• To love, PAWS and Oreo | Swaswati Borkataki
• What’s Your Number?| Sagari Chhabra
• The reality of the historic Poona Pact! | Suresh Khairnar
• Doctors’ agitation for justice to medic caught in a bind | Arun Srivastava
• Rape & Murder at R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital: Implications in Society and Politics in West Bengal | Sujit Kumar Paul & Souradeep Sarkar
• In Response to Sunil Ray’s A Cry For Humanity and the 2024 Bengal Uprising | Pradip Kumar Nath & Hemprabha Chauhan
• R.G. Kar Rape-Murder and its Aftermath: A Review in Feminist Perspective | Manas Mukul Bandyopadhyay
• Blood and Bias: The Case for Reforming India’s Outdated Donation Policies | Disha
• Remembering Shankar Guha Niyogi’s Deep Commitment to Fighting Injustice and the Many-Sided Positive Dimensions of His Trade Union Work | Bharat Dogra
• Where Has Smaller and Alternative News Content Gone? | Martha Rosenberg
• Dissanayake win in Sri Lanka its implications for India | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Israel’s attacks on Lebanon could sow the seeds of its next threat | Michael Humphrey
• Wilhelm Reich and the Sexual Revolution | Marie Louise Berneri

DOCUMENTS:

• Open Letter from 268 civil society organizations to the Government of India to end its support for Myanmar junta
• Observe October 7: End the War in Gaza, Solidarity with Palestine | Joint Statement by Left Parties

BOOKS:

• Henschel. Review of Rosamund Johnston’s, Red Tape: Radio and Politics in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1969

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Caricature: Tribute to Fredric Jameson | Jayaraj Vellur
• A cartoon spotted on Twitter in response to PM Modi’s calf
• Cartoon: TN Gov says Secularism is a Western Concept [and not needed] and his staff respond | Sajith Kumar
• Painting: Grain Growers by Viktor Altukhov (1976)
• Video: East Africa’s Swahili coast grapples with legacy of slave trade - FRANCE 24
• Music: Sonata "La Follia" Op. 1 n. 12 RV 63 · Hesperion XXI / Altre Follie (1500-1750) | Jordi Savall

Editor’s Picks:

• The Dark Underbelly of India’s Rising Income Inequality
• Australian filmmaker David Bradbury denied entry to India
• Politics of renaming: Why the Jero tribe called Port Blair Lao-Tara-Nyo – House of Evils
• Remembering Gursharan Singh, who took theatre to the rural masses of Punjab
• 150 year old Kolkata trams to discontinue
• Celebrating 100 Years of Ram Kumar
• The promise of Ambedkar University Delhi is in tatters
• India abstains in UNGA resolution demanding Israel leave Occupied Palestinian Territory within 12 months
• Author Jhumpa Lahiri declines NYC’s Noguchi Museum award after keffiyeh ban
• How opium made the British Empire
• A break from the past, a new beginning in Sri Lanka
• Why Pakistan’s female doctors don’t feel safe
• The Battle for the BRICS
• Taliban to be taken to international court over gender discrimination
• Amazon: Who should pay for its protection?
• China’s Iconoclast
• Lebanon: Memories of War
• The Politics of Price
• Fredric Jameson believed that reading was the path to revolution
• There’s Another Way to Hold Netanyahu Accountable for the Gaza Genocide

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Books of Note:

• Coups d’État in Cold War Latin America, 1964–1982 Edited by Sebastián Carassai & Kevin Coleman (Cambridge University Press 2024 | Online ISBN: 9781009344821)
• Climate Radicals: Why Our Environmental Politics Isn’t Working by Cameron Abadi (https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/climate-radicals/ | ISBN: 9798987053645)

* (Coverpage Artwork Credits: Proun (1924–25) by El Lissitzky)