Table of Contents, Mainstream, Nov 23, 2024

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In the issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Nov 23, 2024
• 2024 Assembly Elections: Rahul, take a few lessons from the BJP | Faraz Ahmad
• Justice Restored: Supreme Court Prohibits Bulldozer Injustice | Narender Nagarwal
• Those who protect the poor also need protection in difficult times | Bharat Dogra
• Recalling the Life and Death of a Suspected ‘Maoist’: G N Saibaba | Arup Kumar Sen
• Reflections on the 100 years of the Communist Party in India | Suresh Khairnar
• The Crisis in Manipur: A Call for Accountability | Pallab Sengupta
• Durga Puja & R G Kar Agitation In West Bengal | Sujit Kumar Paul & Souradeep Sarkar
• On India’s roads, ill-suited infrastructure drives pedestrian deaths | Shalini Rankavat
• The Tree is a Poem | Sagari Chhabra
• A Veritable Revolution in Sri Lanka’s Tamil Areas | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Who Voted for Hitler? | Dan Simon

DOCUMENTS:

• Protect cleaning workers in times of extreme air pollution | Safair Karamchari Andolan
• JPC probe into corruption allegations on Gautam Adani a must | CPI

BOOKS:

• Johanne Marais’s Review of Chirimuuta, M., The Brain Abstracted

IMAGE & SOUND

• Cartoon: Dont Divide Us | Nala Ponnappa
• French Cartoon on Smong in India | Coco
• Refugees hiding from Ethiopian Airplanes | Sebastiao Salgado
• Short Film: The Night-Fliers by Sabika Syed & Nikhil Mehrotra
• Documentary: Fighting for women’s rights in Latin America
• Music: Este Vacilón - La Familia Valeria Miranda

Editor’s Picks

• DeKoder Commentary on the 2024 Maharashtra & Jharkhand Assembly Elections
• Should a Country Speak a Single Language?
• Is Dialogue Key to the Future in Kashmir? Interview: Mirwaiz Umar Farooq
• How Does India See Its Muslim Population?
• JVP now has a chance to rewrite history, says party’s general secretary Tilvin Silva
• Situation in the State of Palestine: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects the State of Israel’s challenges to jurisdiction and issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant
• Russia’s soldiers bringing wartime violence back home
• US Justice Dept Document of indictment against Gautam Adani & others (Nov2024)
• Global impact of Trump’s win
• If reason can’t save the world, no wonder magic and superstition are on the rise

Books of Note

• The Social Roots of Authoritarianism by Natalia Forrat (Oxford University Press, 08 November 2024, 272 Pages | ISBN: 9780197790359)

• Monopolizing Knowledge: The East India Company and Britain’s Second Scientific Revolution (Cambridge University Press in January 2025)

* (Coverpage artwork credits: Max Ernst - Monument aux Oiseaux (1927))