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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Nov 2, 2024

  2 November

  * 2024 US Presidential Election on a Knife’s Edge | Vijay Kumar
  * Kumar David: a Broadminded Marxist | Rajan Philips
  * From chits to chatbots: cheating in India’s education system | Naresh Singh
  * Grave Concern over 2d FIR against Journalist Mahesh Langa - Media bodies

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Nov 2, 2024

  2 November
  The decadal population enumeration process for India dates back to colonial times and has been held in the post-independence period in regular cycles under the 1948 Census of India Act. The last census was due in 2021 but was postponed on  (...)

• US Presidential Election and the Perils of Excessive Decentralisation | Vijay Kumar

  2 November, by Vijay Kumar
  The November 5 US Presidential Election is heading for a breathtaking photo finish. As latest opinion poll conducted by the New York Times shows, both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are poised neck to neck.
  The US Presidential election is  (...)

• Marxist political parties in Bengal must look beyond outdated populist moves for emerging as the powerful force | Arun Srivastava

  2 November
  by Arun Srivastava
  Is the modern Middle Class the vanguard for a Marxist agitation? This is the question that is making round in the academic and intellectual circles. Probably this question might not have attained so much of seriousness if the  (...)

• Modi Finds a New Enemy | J P Gadkari

  2 November, by J P Gadkari
  November 1, 2024
  Prime Minister Narendra Modi has found a "new enemy" to attack in most of his discourses whom he calls "Urban Naxals". He accuses them of trying to "destabilise" India by "tarnishing its image by joining hands with domestic and  (...)

• Will Congress repeat Haryana in Maharashtra | Faraz Ahmad

  2 November, by Faraz Ahmad
  Has the Congress learnt any lessons from its awful defeat in the Haryana Assembly elections, last month? Or rather is it going to repeat the same mistake in Maharashtra Assembly elections slated for the 20th of this month? It appears so.
  We may  (...)

• Barmer Women Workers’ Struggle Reflects Wider Woes of Rural Employment Scheme Workers | Bharat Dogra

  2 November, by Bharat Dogra
  India is among very few developing countries to have a rural employment guarantee scheme. Apart from providing employment during the lean farm work season, this scheme can make a big contribution to important needs like water and soil  (...)

• Bhagalpur Communal riots 35 years on | Suresh Khairnar

  2 November, by Suresh Khairnar
  October 24, 2024
  It has been 35 years since the publication of the article Mannusherder Sandhane (In Search of Humanity) by the famous Bengali writer and journalist Gaur Kishore Ghosh in the Sunday Special issue of Anandabazar Patrika on 17 June  (...)

• 2024 Assembly Elections: Who will crack Maharashtra? | Thirunahari Seshaiah

  2 November
  After the 18th Lok Sabha elections, assembly elections held in Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir, two other states - Maharashtra and Jharkhand - will go to polls in November 2024. In a state like Maharashtra, which is politically and economically  (...)

• From chits to chatbots: cheating in India’s education system | Naresh Singh

  2 November
  Cheating and plagiarism are already widespread in India’s higher education sector. AI tools are making the problem worse but could also make things better.
  In June 2024, a video clip of mass cheating during MA and MBA exams conducted by the  (...)

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