Table of Contents, Mainstream, Oct 5, 2024

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In this issue

• Letter the Readers, Mainstream, Oct 5
• Court Cases Galore in Karnataka | J P Gadkari
• A New Language of ‘Call for Justice | Arup Kumar Sen
• Sitaram Yechury and non-sectarian leftwing politics | Pritam Singh
• For Meitei-Kuki Peace in Manipur | Sandeep Pandey
• Lateral Entry in Civil Services – Balancing the Demands for ‘Specialists’ and the Imperatives of ‘Social Justice’ | K Gireesan & Jos Chathukulam
• Remembering Gandhi In War-Ravaged And Polarized Time | Vijay Kumar
• Rabindranath Tagore and the need for civilisational dialogue | Archishman Raju
• Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Elections: Will Emotional Campaigning and Populist Promises Pave the Road to Stability | Adfer Rashid Shah
• Church and Muslims in Kerala: Dialogue essential between believers in God’s own country | John Dayal
• Are women being pushed back indoors? | CR Annapurna
• West Bengal: How to protect the junior doctors and also to check threat the health care system is facing from them | Arun Srivastava
• Ahimsa’s Prayer | Sagari Chhabra
• Understanding the Primitive State and Contradictory Narratives of India | Ajay Kumar Mishra
• Demands of Ladakhi people —Statement by Maj Gen S.G.Vombatkere
• Controversy over Bengal Floods Revives Concerns on Role of Dams | Bharat Dogra

DOCUMENTS:

• Letter to the President of India from Concerned Citizens of North-East India
• CPI Welcomes SC Verdict Declaring Caste Discrimination in Prisons
• PUCL condemns the detention of climate activist Sonam Wangchuk & about 150 Ladakhi Padyatris by the Delhi police
• Open Letter to Biden & Harris from American Doctors who served in Gaza

BOOKS:

• Subramanian’s Review Kathmandu Chronicle by Rajan and Thakur
• Quinn’s Review of Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism by Jason A. Heppler

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Film Still: Theater director Habib Tanvir in the film Charandas Chor (1975)
• Video: PACE hearing on Julian Assange’s detention and conviction and their chilling effects on human rights (Oct 1, 2024)
• Music: Khar Khulz by Uuhai —the Mongolian folk metal band

Editors Picks:

• Employment crisis deepens, says survey
• India: Police detain 600 striking Samung workers at protest
• Cloaked In Paternalism: The Unconstitutional Reach Of The UP Anti-Conversion Act
• Resisting or negotiating wind energy dispossession: class and caste in changing rural Kutch
• Modi’s ’One Nation, One Election’ Puts Uniformity Above Constitution, May Pave Way for Hindu Rashtra
• Segregation of work in prisons on the basis of caste unconstitutional: Supreme Court
• Why we should not put leaders on pedestals
• After SEBI, FinMin Refuses to Provide Information on Madhabi Puri Buch and Her Family’s Asset Declaration
• Rice battle heats up as India, Pakistan lift export curbs
• Nepal’s Deadly Flash Floods: What Went Wrong?
• How a US-Based PR Firm Is Profiling Activists, Scientists Opposing Pesticides and GMO
• What I found on the secretive tropical island they don’t want you to see
• Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essential
• Nationalism: What We Know and What We Still Need to Know
• Largest brain map ever reveals fruit fly’s neurons in exquisite detail

Books of Note:

• Renegotiating Patriarchy: Gender, Agency and the Bangladesh Paradox by Naila Kabeer (LSE Press, 2024, 356 Pages | ISBN: Paperback 978-1-911712-22-0 / PDF 978-1-911712-23-7 | DOI https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.rpg)

• The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform by Odd Arne Westad, Chen Jian (Yale University Press, 2024| ISBN:9780300267082)

* (Cover page artwork credits: Hilma af Klint - A work on cereals - Oats (1920))