Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 5, Feb 1, 2025

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In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Feb 1, 2025
• The Diasporic Dilemma | Bhavuk and Prashansa Upadhyay
• Ritwik Ghatak the Stormy Petrel of Indian Celluloid | Jayanta Kumar Ghosal
• Dreaming the Republic | Sagari Chhabra
• The Paradox of Grief: Is It Too Soon to Be Happy? | Disha
• The film Article 370: A Rationalising Project for the Abrogation of ‘Article 370’ from India’s Constitution | Amit Kumar
• USA: The Don Dissapoints None | Jayant Gadkari
• Notun Ihudi: Jewishness as a code and its representations in post-partition Bangla intellectual and political production? | Arka Sen Chakraborty
• Both Israel and Hamas have lost the horrific Gaza bloodbath | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Le Pen’s far-right politics mainstreamed in France | Aurelien Mondon

DOCUMENTS:

• Statement by PIPFPD on the passing of Tapan K Bose (1946 - 2025)
• AITUC statement on 2025 Union Budget

BOOKS:

• Review of Bailey’s The Architecture of Empire | Rachael Maxon
• Review of Bakhurst’s The Heart of the Matter | Corinna Lotz

IMAGE & SOUND:

• 1911 Button by Sylvia Pankhurst for the UK suffragette campaign
• Photo: Prime Ministers of India & Ghana in Belgrade in 1961
• Video: Isaac Deutscher Speaks at Teach-In against Vietnam War. May 1965

Editor’s Picks:

• Hegemony and Demolitions: The Tale of Communal Riots in India in 2024
• Supreme Court Bench Split On Plea Of Christian Man To Bury Father In Native Village; Directs Burial In Another Village
• Yogendra Yadav writes: Ahead of polls, let’s talk about the real problem in Delhi
• Misogyny identified as breeding ground for extremism in UK, says leaked report
• From Sharia judge to minister: Syria’s new justice minister tied to public executions
• What the Donald Trump Presidency Implies for Climate Change
• Trump’s Trade Routes
• Guatemala: Democracy Imperiled
• Serbian students block Belgrade road junction to increase pressure on Vucic
• Israel and the delusions of Germany’s ‘memory culture’

Books of Note:

• Stout and Tender: A collection of poems pure and impure by Bardi Raina ( https://www.amazon.in/Stout-and-Tender/dp/9394887466 Hardcover: 450 pages | ISBN-10: 9394887466, ISBN-13: 978-9394887466 )

• Brazilian Authoritarianism: Past and Present by Lilia Moritz Schwarcz (Princeton University Press, 2022, Pages: 328, Paperback ISBN: 9780691230726)