Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 8, Feb 22, 2025

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In this issue

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Feb 22, 2025
• These Donkey Route Migrations from India | Bharat Dogra
• Vimla Bahuguna: A Legacy of Radical Dissent & Action | Deepti Mehrotra
• Remembering Tapan Bose | Pritam Singh
• Delhi Govt 2025: What to expect from Rekha, Parvesh & Kapil trio? | Faraz Ahmad
• Post Naveen era, BJP Consolidating Power in Odisha | Suranjita Ray
• Indo-US Relations: Any gains from Modi’s flattery of Trump at the Feb 2025 meeting?| Arun Srivastava
• 75 Years of UN: Surviving in Anarchic World Order | Sunny & Kumar
• Developing Inland Waterway Ecosystem in West Bengal | Saumitra Mohan
• Trust deficit in medical services promotes violence against doctors | Vijayetta Sharma
• India’s Health Insurance Paradox | Aishwarya and Jose
• Trump 2.0 Suffers From Selective Amnesia | Manoj Mishra
• Capturing A Father-Child’s Engaging Journey | Jeevesh Gupta
• Pythagoras and the holy dip | Jawed Naqvi
• The coordinates of transformation must change | Sunil Ray

DOCUMENTS

• EGI Statement on blocking of Vikatan.com
• PUCL statement on degrading deportation from USA

BOOKS

• AMU: Institution of Learning or Intellectual Ghetto? | M R Narayan Swamy
• Review of Fujiwara & Marples (eds.), Hiroshima-75

IMAGE & SOUND

• Cartoon: In a Trumpian world all pets are not equal | Hemant Marporia
• Photo: Bombay Cinema Actor David Abraham with Prime Minister Nehru
• Video: Kanishka Goonewardena on Nationalism & Imperialism in the Global South
• Video: The Arctic | Wenting Zhu

Editor’s Picks

• Open letter to SC Justice BR Gavai: Homeless people are most dispossessed citizens, not parasites
• 8 of 25 high courts have only 1 woman judge. Data shows poor representation in higher judiciary
• Forgetting Nellie: Forty-two years and counting
• High levels of microbes from human, animal excreta found in river water at Maha Kumbh: report
• Raj Bisaria saw theatre as a discipline, not a stepping stone to Bollywood
• Champions Trophy: India and Pakistan’s refusal to host each other might well be cricket’s greatest tragedy
• UN report on Bangladesh finds brutal, systematic repression of protests of July Aug 2024
• ‘What a project, what a challenge!’: Africa’s leading architect gives Thomas Sankara a proper place of rest
• Revealed: Trump’s confidential plan to put Ukraine in a stranglehold
• World’s ’first openly gay imam’ shot dead in South Africa
• Revolution in Indonesia
• Friedrich Engels on development and nature: rethinking ecology beyond Western Marxism

Books of Note

• ’Global Handbook of Inequality’ Editors: Surinder S. Jodhka, Boike Rehbein (Springer Cham, eBook ISBN978-3-030-97417-6)
• Selected Writings on Marxism by Stuart Hall, Editor: Gregor McLennan (Duke University Press, 2021, 376 pages | Paper ISBN: 978-1-4780-0034-1)

* (Cover page artwork credits: Photo VT100 terminal via wikipedia )