Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 12, Mar 22, 2025

In this issue:

• Politics of Language in Contemporary India | Arup Kumar Sen
• What’s in a Name? A Surname, Apparently | Disha
• Uttar Pradesh: Yogi Adityanath government conspiring against the people | Pandey & Khan
• Sambhal Mosque Must Not Be Disputed Site | Ishrat Husain
• India needs to de-weaponise misinformation| Pradip Thomas
• Oct 2024 - Feb 2025 Fall of the Indian Stock Market | Ranjan & Narayana
• Why Karat lets Modi/RSS off the Fascism hook? | Faraz Ahmad
• What can make Indian Women Safe in Public Spaces | Mausumi Mukherjee
• Manipur’s Woes: Solutions Ahead | Bandyopadhyay & Nag
• AIPF debates futuristic impact of AI on society | Anil Rajimwale
• Striving to Promote Democracy: Values of Constitution | Ram Puniyani
• Reimagining Parliamentary Democracy in India | P. Sakthivel
• With Whom Lies The Blame For Partition as per Anil Seal | Bhavuk
• Open Letter to Director General, Rosatom, Russia | S. P. Udayakumar
• A Portrait of Paul Nizan by Jairus Banaji
• The Counter-Revolutionary Insurrection in Spain | Paul Nizan (1936)

DOCUMENTS:

• Statements by Radical Socialist on the issue of Delimitation & on the Three Language Formula
• Declaration from Workers Convention, New Delhi, March 2025

BOOKS:

• The Birth, Growth and Demise of Public Sector | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Conquering the last bastion: The growth of Hindutva in Kerala | Sanjana K.S.
• Review of Hoxha, Artan R.. Sugarland: The Transformation of the Countryside in Communist Albania | Andrew Pfannkuche

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Video: Aurangzeb’s Tomb Row Explained | Faye D’Souza
• Documentary: ’Beyond Genocide’ directed by Tapan Bose, Suhasini Mulay and Salim Shaikh
• Music: China Boy (1929) | Paul Whiteman

Editor’s Picks:

• Remembering the Founding Mothers of the Indian Constitution
• As Kerala CPM embraces markets and private capital, the dilemmas that lie ahead
• ‘Without the fight, there are no rights’
• Prakash Karat explains why the CPI(M)’s draft political resolution says the BJP government “displays neo-fascist characteristics”
• Right-wing groups call for removal of Aurangzeb’s tomb
• The BJP Would Be Enraged at Gandhi’s Nuanced Understanding of Aurangzeb
• Migrant carers from India’s Kerala await justice in UK visa ’scams’
• Political Intolerance and Declining Academic Freedom in India
• If Devas was a scam why is Starlink kosher?
• Monarchy Rears Its Head Again In Nepal
• US journalist sues Indian government after losing his overseas citizenship
• Trailer for ’Burial of dreams’ directed by R Sarath
• One in four countries report backlash on women’s rights in 2024
• My boyfriend wants us to move in together – but I need my independence and his dog won’t let us have sex
• Obituary: Dr. Sandra G. Harding (1935 - 2025)
• Soviet-era dissident given ‘draconian’ jail sentence in Russia for anti-war views
• Consciousness before birth? Imaging studies explore the possibility

Books of Note:

• The Political Writings of Bhagat Singh by Chaman Lal and Michael D. Yates (Monthly Review Press, Paperback ISBN: 978-1-68590-066-3 | eBook ISBN: 978-1-68590-068-7 | https://monthlyreview.org/product/the-political-writings-of-bhagat-singh/)
• Women and Work in Rural India Edited by Madhura Swaminathan, Shruti Nagbhushan, and V. K. Ramachandran (Tulika Books, New Delhi. sales[at]tulikabooks.in)

* (Coverpage Artwork Credits: Palazzi di Genova drawing by Peter Paul Rubens (1622))