Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 4, Jan 25, 2025

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In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 25, 2025
• Politics over the Temple Dress Code | Ashish Ranjan Tiwari
• Rethinking the R G Kar Verdict | Arup Kumar Sen
• Changing Character of the Wakf Institution | Ishrat Husain
• Comrade M.N. Roy, the father of ’neo-humanism’ | Suresh Khairnar
• Humra: A Journalist with a Golden Heart | Papri Sri Raman
• Delhi Assembly Elections: Change or status quo? | Prem Singh
• Peaceful Darkness | Devika Sharma
• Open Letter to Com. Prakash Karat to dissuade his party’s govt from setting up nuclear power plants in Kerala | K. Sahadevan
• Cultural Journey: The Turning Point | Chandra Mohan Bhandari
• Thinking the Public Sphere in the Contemporary Socio-Political Landscape | Chetan Anand
• Trump’s Inauguration Marks The Return of Robber Barons In U.S. Politics | Vijay Kumar
• Trump’s Pull Out from Paris Climate Agreement is a Crime | Soma Marla
• Donald Trump’s Second Presidency: A Tentative Analysis | P. S. Jayaramu
• How the Abandonment of Democracy and Internationalism Has Decimated the Socialist Movement | Rohini Hensman

DOCUMENTS

• CPI on Imperialist and Reactionary Doctrine of President Trump
• Increase the allocation to health in the upcoming budget to a minimum of 3% of the GDP – IDPD

BOOKS

• A Maverick Whose Instinct Worked | N. Sathiya Moorthy
• Dissecting What Destroyed Prabhakaran, LTTE | Sivadas Sankar

IMAGE & SOUND

• 1912 Map of Port of Spain and suburbs
• Cartoon: This talk of illegal migrants by Nala Ponaappa
• Film Still from Satyajit Ray’s 1963 film Mahanagar (Big City)
• Music: J.J. Cale/ Eric Clapton — at Crossroads Guitar Festival 2004

Editor’s Picks:

• Recalling the ECs’ Sordid Saga of Compromised Functioning on Its 75th Anniversary
• Illegal Immigrants
• India court orders seizure of ’offensive’ MF Husain paintings
• As vaccination falters, polio back in Afghanistan, Pakistan
• Statement of ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC: Applications for arrest warrants in the situation in Afghanistan
• The Only Path to Peace in Palestine: One Democratic State
• South Korean democracy was nearly toppled by its president. It was saved by its people
• Colombia’s Border Crisis
• Inside Iceland’s futuristic farm growing algae for food
• Soviet Nightingales: Care Under Communism
• As a Climate Scientist, I Knew It Was Time to Leave Los Angeles
• Health in the age of disinformation

Books of Note:

The Demolition and the Verdict: Ayodhya and the Project to Reconfigure India by Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay (Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited, Dec 2021)

* (Cover page Artwork Credits: Jean Dubuffet - Paysage (1974))