Table of Contents - Mainstream, May 11, 2024

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Mainstream, VOL 62 No 19, May 11, 2024

In this Issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, May 11, 2024
• A Modern Indian Erotic Tale | Sumanta Banerjee
• Letter to PM Modi - investigate Adani, Ambani for corruption & attempt to influence elections | Binoy Viswam
• Has Modi Seen The Writing on the Wall? | JP Gadkari
• Modi’s Electoral Power At Stake? | Nilofar Suhrawardy
• 2024 General Election: Battle of Stars in Full Swing in the Industrial Belt of Bengal | Tirthankar Mitra
• Paradoxes of Modi’s politics: the coming 2024 election | Radhakanta Barik
• Modi Regime’s Facilitation of the Insidious Militarisation of Society | Subhash Gatade
• India’s Budget 2023–24: What Is in it for the People? | Neeraj Jain
• Identifying & Assisting Karnataka’s Most Deprived Village Panchayats | Jos Chathukulam
• 1857: The idea of nationality in the ’Flag Salute Song’ | Prem Singh
• Lenin, & crisis in natural sciences & philosophy today | Anil Rajimwale
• How an industry milks mothers’ fears for profit | Irma Hidayana
• Climate action / Poll Irregularities / Homeopathy | Humra Quraishi
• Sri Lanka: Tamil party vows to work with Sinhalese, Muslims | M R Narayan Swamy
• Our shared Bangladesh - A letter from Amartya Sen to Rehman Sobhan
• Challenges of Language in Political Games | Sunita Samal
• Students Protest is Soul of Democracy | Vijay Kumar
• The New Assimilation: Reflections on the Campus Protests in the US | Josh
• A Vision of Anarchist Love - Excerpts | Takamure Itsue

BOOKS

• Review of ‘The Right Wing Mirror of Critical Theory by Larry Alan Busk | Matt McManus

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Photo: Palestinian teachers on holiday travelling from Kuwait to Baghdad, 1958 | Alia Yunis
• Painting: Nürnberg Trials, 1946 | Dame Laura Knight
• Film: Jal Tu Jalaal Tu | Prateek Vats [English Subs]
• Video: Claims & Realities on Indian Economy | R. Ramakumar
• Video: Overheated – The Fight for Information Integrity, Climate Action, and Democracy | Jennie King
• Music: Dorothy Ashby - Afro Harp

Editor’s Picks:

• The PM’s speeches fall foul of the Model Code of Conduct
• Look Who All the PM Echoes: Hardline Extremists, Spurious YouTubers, Hindutva Popstars
• Unscientific temper
• AR Chief voices concerns "weaponization of society" in Manipur
• Hamida Banu: The incredible life of India’s ’first’ woman wrestler
• Climate Refugees or Labour Migrants? Climate Reductive Translations of Migration from Coastal Bangladesh
• A Letter from North American Jews to the Israeli Government
• If We Say Yes
• Going to the extreme: Inside Germany’s far-right
• Between capitalism and socialism: Tugan-Baranovsky on cooperatives
• At Dien Bien Phu
• Vietnam: Is corruption crackdown rattling Communist Party?
• Photos: Record-Breaking Floods in Southern Brazil
• People eating ‘grass and peanut shells’ in Darfur, UN says, as hunger crisis engulfs war-ravaged Sudan
• The ‘forever chemicals’ toxic to your health
• Does Perplexity’s “answer engine” threaten Google?