Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 2, Jan 11, 2025

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In this issue:

• Letter to the readers, Mainstream, Jan 11, 2025
• Why India’s ruling party is confident of being in power for long | Ajay Gudavarthy
• Maharashtra and the power of Oligarchy | Faraz Ahmad
• Arunachal Christians gird up to face a challenge from Sangh & the govt | John Dayal
• Why attack Kerala CM over temple dress code? | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Impact of Pollution Prevention Steps on Workers in Delhi | Bharat Dogra
• Does Babasaheb’s Ideology match with the Hindu Nationalist Politics?| Ram Puniyani
• Modi’s turn from non-biological to human | J P Gadkari
• No invitation to swearing in, points to a low in Trump-Modi ties | Arun Srivastava
• India is the Stage and the World is Performing | Disha
• GST: Middle Class and Social Justice | Akshint Joseph, Karamala Areesh Kumar
• Big Tech & the Need for Fair Revenue Sharing for News Content | Teresa Joseph
• Popular Culture & War on Terror: US Role in World Affairs | Sunita Samal
• Detention: A Failure of the Child or the Education System? | Adama Srinivas Reddy
• Identity Politics of Representation & Reservation of Backward Communities in India | Manoj Kumar Mishra
• 2025: Challenges before the NDA Government & the Opposition | P. S. Jayaramu
• About People’s Protests Just Asking . . . | S.G.Vombatkere
• Deschooling Society | Ivan Illich

DOCUMENTS

• AITUC statement on employers who want all limits on worktime to go
• 90-hour work week is detrimental to health & productivity | IDPD

BOOKS

• Review of Bhattacharya’s, Disparate Remedies | Asmita Sarkar

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Cartoon: These promoters of non-stop work | Nala Ponnappa
• Mural: Mexico Today and Tomorrow by Diego Rivera (1935)
• Video: Pritam Singh on Farmer’s Struggle of 2020 in India
• Documentary: Climate Protest Crackdown
• Music from the film Once a Thief - The Cat by Lalo Schifrin

Editor’s Picks

• A country afraid of humour? Satish Acharya, Manjul told their cartoons violate India’s laws
• Thousands of Non-Permanent Workers of Maruti Demand Permanent Jobs
• For equality’s sake
• Why Islam cannot be secular…it was never meant to be
• The Nuclear Danger in Asia
• Pakistan Taliban threatens military-run businesses amid rising violence
• Why Bangladesh could become India’s new Pakistan
• Pithampur is not the first case of lethal waste dumping; similar instances abound across India
• Talking about the Palestinian story was forbidden’: a developer’s struggle to make a game about the 1948 Nakba
• Gaza death toll has been significantly underreported, study finds
• BYD Brazil scandal exposes flaws in Chinese investment
• Germany defunds 2 Israeli human rights groups
• California Burns [2007 article in LRB]
• Exclusive Spaces - How Gated Communities in Bogotá Threaten Democratic Access and Security for All in the Streets Outside the Gates
• Chasing Shadows, Finding Life: The Search for Earth’s Twin

• Sex Tourism in Thailand: Inside Asia’s Premier Erotic Playground.” by Ronald Weitzer NYU Press, 2023, 352 pages
• Rights Refused: Grassroots Activism and State Violence in Myanmar” by Elliott Prasse-Freeman Stanford University Press, 2023, 366 pages
• Economy and Ecology in a Burning World by Stale Holgersen (Verso, Paperback 288 pages / November 2024 / 9781804293805

* (Coverpage Artwork Credits: Paul Klee - Lagoon City (1932) )