Table of Contents, Mainstream, Oct 19 & 26 2024

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In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Oct 19 & 26 2024
• Contested Meanings of Durga Puja in West Bengal | Arup Kumar Sen
• Congress Party, Haryana debacle and the Polls in Jharkhand and Maharashtra | P. S. Jayaramu
• Individual Priorities over the Party-Defeated Congress in Haryana | S S Sangwan
• Modi and Shah are getting ready to repeat Haryana experiment in Maharashtra and Jharkhand | Arun Srivastava
• India’s double standard in dealing with US and Canada | Faraz Ahmad
• Will Vikash Yadav be sacrificed in an exchange deal over Tahawwur Rana | Faraz Ahmad
• Revamping Drug Inspection & Monitoring Mechanism | Gautam Sen
• Punjab’s Path of Progress Should be based on Justice, Peace and Protection of Environment | Dogra and Singh
• Covid-19 and the explosive Pfizer documents | S G Vombatkere
• Decoding Jammu and Kashmir Poll Results | Adfer Rashid Shah
• Education: Beyond Economic Instrumentalism | Farooq Ahmad Bakloo
• Going Beyond Ethnicity: Understanding the Conflict in Manipur | Lamkang & Kumar
• 2024 Economics Noble’s clarion call “Institutions, Institutions and Institutions” | Nath & Chauhan
• Home is where one’s ‘hearth’ is – in search of the culinary quest| Swaswati Borkataki
• The Price We Pay as RSS turns 100 in 2025! | Suresh Khairnar
• India’s First Metadata case: Why no to electoral bond and Sangh’s donor-driven One Nation, One Election and One Unique Identifier? Part 8 | Gopal Krishna
• Red Signals and Rouge Faces: The Intersection of Trans Visibility | Disha
• Marx in London | Nikhil Sanjay-Rekha Adsule
• Terrorism and Territory in the Era Of Globalisation | Sunita Samal
• Well-Wishers of Canada, Have Been Warning Against the Proliferation of Terror Groups | Bharat Dogra
• Navigating India - Bangladesh Relations In The Post-Rebellion Context | Nag & Bhattacharya
• Nuclear Clouds over the Middle East can spread far and wide Collateral damage in Gaza | Arun Mitra
• Israel is not ‘saving western civilisation’. Nor is Hamas leading ‘the resistance’ | Kenan Malik

BOOKS:

• Memoirs of an Exalite | Sreejith K
• Review of Mohsin’s, Electrifying Indonesia

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Caricature: Tribute to GN Saibaba | Jayaraj Vellur
• Photo: Fredric Jameson, Eqbal Ahmad and others with Yasser Arafat in Lebanon in 1981
• Video: A. L. Morton: Revolutions, Utopias, and Life in the English Radical Tradition
• Music: The Doors - Riders on the Storm (1967)
• Documentary: Charlie Chaplin and The Taliban

Editor’s Picks:

• The Unexplained, Last Minute Increase in Voter Turnout in Haryana Raises Fresh Doubts About Election Integrity
• Rs 10,000 crore road-construction scam in Maharashtra under Mahayuti, says Congress
• Judges and biases: Is awareness enough to deal with systemic predispositions?
• ‘Vacancies, Backlogs, Culture of Impunity’: Dismantling the Transparency Watchdogs
• A moral weapon
• US charges ex-Indian intelligence official in foiled Sikh separatist murder plot
• Who is lobbying for India’s Modi government on Capitol Hill?
• Alone in the Dark: The Nightmare of Bangladesh’s Secret Underground Prison
• Hasina’s misrule should not affect our judgement of Bangabandhu
• The wages of conflict
• In memoriam: Jack D Ives, 1931–2024
• Sudan is the world’s gravest humanitarian disaster – but almost nobody cares
• North Gaza: Between Death and Displacement
• Trump says criminal activity is genetic. Nazis showed where such talk can lead
• To keep health as a unifying force, we must put resources into tackling health misinformation and disinformation

Books of Note:

• To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement by Benjamin Nathans (Princeton University Press, 2024, 816 pages, ISBN: 9780691117034)

(Cover page Artwork Credits: Carla Badiali, Composizione 1983)