Table of Contents, Mainstream, Oct 12, 2024

In this issue:

• The Oceanic Circle: Talk on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s 155th birthday | Dilip Simeon
• A resurgent Congress under Rahul has to clear all the deadwood | Faraz Ahmad
• Haryana and J&K Assembly Elections: Major Takeaways | P. S. Jayaramu
• Undertanding BJP’s victory in 2024 Haryana assembly elections | Thirunahari Seshu
• Darkness at Noon | Arup Kumar Sen
• Between Pain and Pages: A Daughter’s Journey of Healing Through Writing
• Report of the Palestine Solidarity Programme October 7th 2024 | Vineet Tiwari
• Cancer: the hidden hazard in India’s construction industry | Abha Rao
• Poem: We want violence | Rahul Ray
• Telangana State Education Commission: A Bureaucratic Approach to Educational Reform | Adama Srinivas Reddy
• Escalation of Israel-Iran Hostilities: Analyzing the Cycle of Retaliation, Regional Implications, and International Responses | Abdul Wasi Popalzay
• Paul Robeson’s Unread Statement before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (June 12, 1956)

DOCUMENTS:

• Victory for BJP in the Haryana and J&K Elections 2024 - Statement by Radical Socialist

BOOKS:

• ‘Hindu’ Nationalism & ‘Ethnic’ Democracy are today Outdated Premises | Radhakanta Barik
• Mark Hurst. Review of Martin, Barbara, Roy and Zhores Medvedev: Loyal Dissent in the Soviet Union

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Cartoon: Congratulations to the Nobel Winner Han Kang | Jayaraj Vellur
• Music: Mac Demarco - 21 Horse Hot Wee Wee Water
• TV Film: The Door Without a Key Hitchcock Presents

Editors Picks:

• How the ball turned on the Haryana field
• In the name of Waqf: a snapshot of the situation in Telangana
• The Arrest Of A Journalist
• Booby Trap Attacks on Lebanon: Indian Army Chief’s Shocking Views
• The Curse of Religious Bigotry Has Paralysed Pakistan
• Sudan: Refugee numbers swell as war continues to drive displacement
• Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna dies in a Russian jail: RSF statement
• US urges Israel to stop shooting at UN peacekeepers in Lebanon
• Atomic Bomb Survivors Win Nobel Peace Prize, Say Gaza Today Is Like Japan 80 Years Ago
• The Paradoxes Facing the Christian Right in Election 2024
• ‘It’s mindblowing’: US meteorologists face death threats as hurricane conspiracies surge
• I was groomed online. People, not tech, got me out
• AI comes to the Nobels: double win sparks debate about scientific fields
• The Hardest Working Caffeine Addicts: Bees!

Books of Note:

• Everyday Denazification in Postwar Germany: The Fragebogen and Political Screening during the Allied Occupation by Mikkel Dack (Cambridge University Press, 2023, Online ISBN: 9781009216326, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009216326)

* (Cover page artwork credits: Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe, watercolour, Brown Pigeon, inscribed ‘Barb from Matthew and Lewis, Bideford. Royal Welsh Show 1956’)