Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 7, Feb 15, 2025

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In this issue:

• Letter to the readers, Mainstream, Feb 15, 2025
• Delhi elections: BJP still vulnerable against a united Opposition | Faraz Ahmad
• Electoral defeat of AAP is intertwined in the duality of politics | Arun Srivastava
• Chancellor Office Debate & a Vote for Personalisation without Privatisation | S Ramamurthy
• APP Defeat in Delhi and Future Agenda | Sher Singh Sangwan
• A shadow as legacy | Yogendra Yadav
• Why Double Standards of Justice in India? | Sumeet Singh
• Budget 2025-26: Will It Boost Growth and Employment? | Ajit Kumar Singh
• India’s Budgetary Policy: A Changing Trajectory | Bandyopadhyay & Karmakar
• Declaration on the occasion of S A Dange’s 125th birth anniversary
• "Civil Celebrities": Redefining Public Service in the Social Media Era | Disha
• India’s First Metadata case: USAID’s Role in India’s Mass Surveillance —Part 9 | Gopal Krishna
• Unravelling of Dystopian Reality In Trumpian World | Vijay Kumar
• End of a love affair with the left? | Ash Narain Roy
• Life World of Ismat Chughtai: Some Snapshots | Arup Kumar Sen
• Birth of a revolutionary movement in Yugoslavia (1969) | Fredy Perlman

DOCUMENTS

• CPI statement on mass killings in Chhattisgarh
• PUCL Statement on the Stampede at Maha Kumbh Mela

BOOKS

• Review of Sohal’s The Muslim Secular | Raheel Bashir & Aamir Jamal Khan
• Delhi Model: When good governance and trickle-up economics merged | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Interview with a food processing consultant | Martha Rosenberg

IMAGE & SOUND

• Painting: The Night Shift by Marianne von Werefkin (1924)
• Documentary: The astonishing intelligence of bumblebees, wasps & co
• Music Video: Los Indios Tabajaras Adios Mariquita Linda, Lisboa antigua

Editor’s Picks

• A conversation with Jairus Banaji
• Love, common coded
• Who is the Class of Parasites, My Lord? Class, Courts, Capitalism and Justice
• Understanding tax relief and Indian economy
• Brinda Karat’s Letter to Hon’ble Supreme Court Justice Shri B. R. Gavai
• Nuclear energy — dangerous concessions on liability
• Only by Purging his Nehruphobia Can Modi Grow up
• Footnotes to the Delhi shake-up
• Why India fails to protect its domestic workers despite decades of abuse
• Bangladeshi writers, artists and human rights activists condemn attack on bookstall displaying Taslima Nasreen’s book
• Pushing The Frontier For Women: Shabana Khattak’s Struggle For Education In KP
• Namibia’s ’founding father’ Sam Nujoma dies aged 95
• The Coventry experiment: why were Indian women in Britain given radioactive food without their consent?
• “Not the usual way?” On the involvement of an East German couple with the planning of the Ethiopian capital
• . . .the man who exposed Switzerland’s dirty secrets
• Iraqi Communist Party slams Syria’s party ban
• An Argentinean Writer and the Movement for Women’s Rights
• The science behind the first pig-organ transplant trial in humans

Books of Note

• The Nehru Years: An International History of Indian Non-Alignment by Swapna Kona Nayudu (Cambridge University Press, Hardback ISBN: 9781009579087)
• Class Meets Land: The Embodied History of Land Financialization by Maria Kaika, Luca Ruggiero (University of California Press, Nov 2024, Pages: 218, ISBN: 9780520410084)