Table of Contents, Mainstream, Nov 30, 2024

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In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Nov 30, 2024
• The Constitution At Seventy-Five | Vijay Kumar
• Worsening Spiral of Hate speech: Demonization of Religious Minorities | Ram Puniyani
• India’s image takes a beating thanks to the Adani & Modi combine | Arun Srivastava
• Modi’s New Discovery | J P Gadkari
• Demand for Denial of Right to Vote for Muslims in Karnataka | J P Gadkari
• Culture of ‘Confession’ and Power-Politics | Sunita Samal
• Gandhi’s Feminism | Sachin Yadav
• Violence in Sambhal . . . along lines of the Sangh’s Agenda | Humra Quraishi
• Counter-Insurgency Operations in Chhattisgarh | Arup Kumar Sen
• Farmers Scarred by Mining Recover Lost Ground as Green Crops Smile on Rocky Land | Bharat Dogra
• Pakistan politics at its worst… and at its best | Kathy Gannon
• The ongoing collapse | Amitav Ghosh

DOCUMENTS:

• Statement from National Unions & Peasants platform on Nov 26, 2024
• Radical Socialist Statement on Assembly elections in Maharashtra and Jharkhand

BOOKS:

• Review of Davaram’s ’Munnar to Marina: The Journey’ | K S Subramanian
• Charles Reitz’s Review of The Marcusean Mind

IMAGE & SOUND

• Poster for International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on Nov 29
• Film Poster: Naya Sansar (1940) directed by N.R. Acharya
• Song: Talking Union by Millard Lampell, Lee Hays & Pete Seeger
• Documentary: Untold Story of Stalin’s Daughter - Svetlana Alliluyeva

Editor’s Picks:

• Economic historian Amiya Kumar Bagchi passes away
• Adani Bribery Case - Deafening silence of Indian business leaders
• Young Bihari women are India’s brave new coders. Bengaluru is their dream
• This Constitution Day, a secular, socialist gift from the Supreme Court of India
• Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Forty years of struggle for justice—Part 1
• To revive India’s industries: The global and imperial roots of swadeshi in the nineteenth century
• Statement of ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC: Application for an arrest warrant in the situation in Bangladesh/Myanmar
• Afghanistan refugees in Germany: ’Sport is freedom’
• Hollow Steel
• Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Raphaël Glucksmann: ’How can we fail to see that the Israeli response violates the laws of war and tramples on international law?’
• Review of Martin Mittelmeier’s ’Naples 1925: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Summer That Made Critical Theory’ in the New Yorker (Nov 2024)
• Christian Nationalism Marches on With ’Bible-Infused’ Texas Curriculum
• Health of people who are displaced in their own countries is a neglected global crisis