Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 10, Mar 8, 2025

In this issue

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, March 8, 2025
• Toxic Masculinity & Backlash Against Women’s Rights | Mohan Rao
• All Things Beyond Justice For The Indian Woman | Ruksana and Nitish
• Some Thoughts on International Women’s Day | Sagari Chhabra
• Re-imagining Love, Nature and Sensuality in Meghaduta | Swaswati Borkataki
• Comedians vs. Censors: Revisiting Ideology and Language of Abuse | Amit Kumar
• Trump’s action may ruin India’s economic system, as he wrecks the world order | Arun Srivastava
• Tribute to A. K. Biswas | Vidya Bhushan Rawat
• Caste Enumeration Controversy in Telangana | Srinivasulu Karli
• From Kumbh to Mahakumbh | Radhakanta Barik
• How sincere is Jaishankar on PoK? | Faraz Ahmad
• On Recent developments on ending the Ukraine war | P. S. Jayaramu
• Right to Abortion — Women Betrayed by the System in Brazil| L.M. Bonato
• Against the Couple-Form | Clemence X. Clementine and associates from the Infinite Venom Girl Gang

DOCUMENTS:

• Women’s Peace Network Statement on the 4th anniversary of the Burmese Military’s Attempted Coup
• SAFTU Statement on the U.S. Retaliation Against South Africa’s Stance on Palestine

BOOKS:

• Review of Ali, Saleem H., Soil to Foil: Aluminum and the Quest for Industrial Sustainability | Andrew Perchard

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Photo: Protest by Women Garment and Textile Workers in Bengaluru, Sept 12, 2019
• Working women rebel against household labour — Poster from Soviet Union for International Womens’s Day, March 8, 1932
• Video: The Ministry of Pollution - The Two Ronnies
• Music: Cool Hand —Derya Yildirim & Grup simsek

Editor’s Picks:

• More than 960 quacks traced in Karnataka over past 1.5 years
• Did you think you were safe?
• India middle-class jitters amid trillion-dollar market routh
• The Indian film showing the bride’s ’humiliation’ in arranged marriage
• CPM Note on the Use of the Term ‘Neo-Fascism’
• Afghans hiding in Pakistan live in fear of forced deportation
• Doing development in the polycrisis
• ‘No Other Land’ Directors Use Oscar Speech to Call on World ‘to Stop the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinian People’
• Rude awakening
• The Trump-Putin Axis and Its Impact on Global Politics
• More than 170 mothers killed by their sons in 15 years in UK, report reveals
• Resurgence of Germany’s Left exposes fragmented, polarised electorate
• The Anatomy of the Great Terror: A Quantitative Analysis of the 1937-38 Purges in the Red Army
• Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere

Books of Note:

• Sumit Sarkar - Uncollected Writings: Compiled by Tanika Sarkar (Permanent Black, 2025, ISBN 9788178246994)
• The Ideology of Work: Theoretical Humanism, Work and Labour by Samuel Mercer (Brill, 2024, E-Book (PDF) ISBN: 978-90-04-70317-9 / Hardback ISBN: 978-90-04-70316-2)
• Common Circuits: Hacking Alternative Technological Futures by Luis Felipe R. Murillo, February 2025, 228 Pages | Hardcover ISBN: 9781503640603 / Paperback ISBN: 9781503641488 / Ebook ISBN: 9781503641495)

* (Cover Page Artwork Credits: Hafendock (Harbor Dock), 1919 by Lyonel Feininger)