Table of Contents - Mainstream, Jan 20, 2024

In this Issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 20, 2024
• Sustaining Democratic Spirit: Movements and Yatras | Ram Puniyani
• Avoiding The Pitfalls in Coalescence As Congress Begins ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ | Ajay K. Mehra
• Modi’s India: Right-Wing populism and national hegemony | Dilip Kumar
• Women Wrestlers Protest Against Sexual Violence Matters | Bharat Dogra
• Rethinking the Covid Pandemic | Arup Kumar Sen
• War in Gaza, Iran Pakistan Spat; Ayodhya readied for state religion spectacle before elections | Humra Quraishi
• A University That Knows the Art of Speaking Truth to Power | Gyan Prakash
• How Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit played peacemaker between Palestine and Israel | Manu Bhagavan
• India’s First Metadata case: Mass Surveillance, Mass Spying and Unending Census Part 3 | Gopal Krishna
• Environmental Preservation in Sustainable Entrepreneurship | S N Tripathy
• Need to Distinguish Political Project of the Hindutva from Hinduism | Sandeep Pandey
• On Frankfurt School Critical Theory and Political Economy | Chris O’Kane
• The Carbon Footprint of Capital | Lucas Chancel and Yannic Rehm
• A Prayer for the World | Sagari Chhabra

DOCUMENTS:

• Sri Lanka: Stop Abusive Anti-Drug Operation and Release Those Arbitrarily Detained - Joint Statement

BOOKS:

• Tagore Spiritual Side | M R Narayan Swamy
• An extraordinary memoir of an acid attack survivor | Joydip Ghosal
• Review of Sandrine Parageau’s The Paradoxes of Ignorance in Early Modern England and France

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Caricature: Tribute to Prabha Atre | Jayaraj Vellur
• Painting: ’Annual memorial meet at the Communards’ Wall’ | Ilya Repin
• Video: Excerpt from the documentary film ’Ram Kay Naam’ (In the Name of Rama) by Anand Patwardhan
• Video: Protest Fast on January 22, 2024 Ram Temple inauguration - Statement by Suranya Aiyar
• Documentary: Крапля до краплі — буде хвиля! / Drop by drop — there will be a wave!
• Music: Florian Pellissier Quintet - Rio (2021)

Editor’s Picks:

• Congress boycott right. Ayodhya event not about Ram, but coronates Hindutva as state religion
• Reproducing Dispossession and Erasure within a Waste Picker Organization in Mumbai
• Glacial Crisis Grips Both Sides of LoC: 25% Glaciers Vanished
• Why Burma was separated from British India
• The brutality and inhumanity of Israel’s assault on Gaza is no surprise. It’s just what was promised
• The Standard of Civilization
• ICJ’s patchy history — why South Africa’s case against Israel may linger on
• Why Europe’s farmers are protesting – and the far right is taking note
• Boris Akunin: Russia designates author ‘foreign agent’
• Alan Sokal’s Joke Is on Us as Postmodernism Comes to Science
• How a forgotten physicist’s discovery broke the symmetry of the Universe
• A new type of antibiotic targets a drug-resistant bacterium
• A New Growth Strategy for Developing Nations

* (Cover Page Artwork Credits: Serge Poliakoff - Composition, 1956)