Table of Contents, Mainstream, Nov 9, 2024

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Nov 9 2024
• Towards Left Consolidation | Bhannu Datta & Shobhanlal Datta Gupta
• The Return of Trump | Vijay Kumar
• Paradigm Shifts in the Development & Judicial Discourses | Arup Kumar Sen
• 2024 US election: Kamala’s Defeat | Faraz Ahmad
• Analysing Donald Trump’s Historic Presidential Victory | P S Jayaramu
• Can the Naxalites Commit to Achieving Justice in Peaceful Ways? | Bharat Dogra
• A Tribute to Jawahar Lal Nehru on his 135th birth anniversary | Suresh Khairnar
• Nehruvian Science in Nation Building | Soma Marla
• The Colonial Legacy of ARJ’s Institutional Economics | Ajay Kumar Mishra
• BRICS a ray of hope for peace and just international economic order - sans commitment to nuclear weapons abolition | Arun Mitra
• Manipur is living under the shadow of guns | Irfan Engineer
• An Ode to a Comrade | Sreejith K
• New diktat in Tirumala turns Hinduism upside down | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Afghanistan: Education Under Siege | Abdul Wasi Popalzay
• The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean world | Fernand Braudel

BOOKS:

• Review of Anita Agnihotri’s "The Touch of Salt" | Bhavna Harchandani
• Review of Puia’s Nationalism in the Vernacular: State, Tribes, and the Politics of Peace in Northeast India | P Kham Sian Muan Zou

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Photos: Tenzing Norgay & Edmund Hilary; Jawaharlal Nehru & Indira Gandhi with Norgany’s family
• Music: Once Again - 2011 | Danny Cudd & Markus Johansson

Editor’s Picks:

• Thinking Cup with Anuradha Bhasin – Omar Abdullah: Article 370, Statehood & Other Challenges
• Erased from the Map: The Story of a Village in Hasdeo
• Indian officials misplace Rushdie book ban order
• Netanyahu Appoints Yechiel Leiter as Israel’s Ambassador to U.S. Hardline Settler, Ex-member of Far-right Kahanist Group
• Climate crisis leaves European farmers vulnerable to far right, say campaigners
• Our mistake was to think we lived in a better country than we do

* (Coverpage Artwork Credits: Portrait - Rene Magritte, Portrait, (1935) )