Table of Contents, Mainstream, Nov 16, 2024

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In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Nov 16, 2024
• Chief Justice Chandrachud: A Legacy With A Promise of Greatness Stands Perilled | Vijay Kumar
• Goodbye Justice Chandrachud | Radhakanta Barik
• Is it fair to commend Chandrachud’s form ignoring the content? | Faraz Ahmad
• The Karnataka Assembly By-elections | P S Jayaramu
• Likely storm over JPC Waqf Bill Report | J P Gadkari
• Unpacking the Jharkhand 2024 Assembly Election | Chhotelal Kumar

Commentary on 2024 Presidential Election Results:

• Contesting the narrative of the US elections as a ringing endorsement of Trump | Pritam Singh
• Power of Voters in India & USA Does Matter! | Nilofar Suhrawardy
• Disenchantment with Democracy | Sanjana K.S.

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• Polluted Air to relief camps — make political rulers answerable | Humra Quraishi
• “Momfluencers” and the Perils of “Sharenting”: At What Cost?| Disha
• No Male Tailors or Gym Trainers for Females in UP: A Step towards Women’s Safety or Regressive Patriarchy?| Pragya Ranjan
• Unlocking Peace in Kashmir | Adfer Shah
• Locating Caste in SDG| Karamala Areesh Kumar, Prajwal T. V,
• Urban Local Bodies revamping to herald urban infrastructure | Nand L. Dhameja, Manish Dhameja & Ridhi Khatter
• Why Israel Loves to Kill Palestinians | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• The countries fuelling Myanmar’s civil war | Adam Simpson
• October Revolution and Indian Independence | Alan Paul Varghese
• The Lessons of the October Experiment | Karl Kautsky (1925)

DOCUMENTS:

• Unlawful Arrest, Detention & Killings in Bijapur District, Chhattisgarh
• 250+ activists from across India call for immediate release of Jammu and Kashmir’s environmental defenders

IMAGE & SOUND

• 1989 Stamp from the Soviet Union in honour of Jawaharlal Nehru
• Audio: The Lancet Commission on Self-Harm - a discussion
• Music: Claudio Monteverdi - Zefiro Torna (1632)

Editors’s Picks:

• Officers Carrying Out Illegal Demolitions Liable To Restore Properties At Personal Cost & Pay Damages: Supreme Court
• The Contrasting Footprint of Labour and Capital in Post-colonial India
• “Vindictive”, “anti-employee”, “biased”: AUD students & faculty protest removal of two professors
• Why is it fashionable to deride historians? The answer lies outside academia
• The Naga threat of taking up violent resistance once again
• How the Sassoons of Bombay became one of China’s wealthiest families
• Sri Lanka President Dissanayake’s coalition wins snap polls: Report
• Activist takes own life in protest at Iranian regime
• High on ignorance
• Authoritarians like Trump love fear, defeatism, surrender. Do not give them what they want
• Republicans Could Abolish the Education Department. How Might That Work?
• Gulag History Museum in Moscow temporarily closed ‘for safety reasons’
• Fat keeps metabolism in tune and on time using an inflammatory immune protein

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Books of Note:

• War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror by Samar Al-Bulushi (Stanford University Press, November 2024, 274 Pages | Paperback ISBN: 9781503640917)
• Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza by Didier Fassin — Translated by Gregory Elliott (Verso Books, planned date of publication: 128 pages / 7 January 2025 / 9781804299678)

* (Coverpage Artwork Credits: Pedro Coronel, Sin ti?tulo [Untitled], (1978))