Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 14, Apr 5, 2025

In this issue

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 5, 2025
• Deconstructing ‘Bulldozer Justice’ | Arup Kumar Sen
• Wrongdoers do not bother about the barking judiciary | Arun Srivastava
• Who was fooled by the ‘secular’ leaders of the NDA? | Faraz Ahmad
• Political Leadership and Development in Karnataka: Some reflections | P. S. Jayaramu
• Why educational inequality remains high in India | Aneesh M R
• The Loneliness Of A Capable Child: Rethinking Inclusion and Justice | Surabhi Nagpal
• Endogenous Privatization and Bureaucratic Overreach in Telangana’s Collegiate Education | Adama Srinivas Reddy
• Unseen Barriers: How the International Transgender Day of Visibility Overlooks Systemic Trans Oppression | Bandyopadhyay, Nag
• Sanitising the Supremo | Subhash Gatade
• The Political Failure of Maoist Line in India | Pallab Sengupta
• What led to the rise of Billionaires? | Bhabani Shankar Nayak
• Implications of Russia-Ukraine War for World Politics | Manoj Kumar Mishra

DOCUMENTS

• CPI statement on Waqf Legislation
• AIKS statement on Trump’s Tariffs

BOOKS

• Cohesive Development: The old is dying, and the new cannot be born | Darlianmawii, Kumar, Pathak
• Review of Nandita Haksar’s Shooting the Sun | Md Umar Faruque

IMAGE & SOUND

• Photo: Main building of the University of Chile in Santiago
• Video: White supremacy & complicity: How the West enables Israel’s war on Gaza | Pankaj Mishra
• Music: Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton - Corrine, Corrina

Editor’s Picks:

• This Eid, BJP Has Perfected the Use of the State Apparatus to Restrict Muslims
• The ‘3Cs’ that haunt Indian education today
• Government loses Rs1,757 crore as BSNL fails to bill Reliance Jio for sharing infra: CAG
• An Unceremonious End to Modi’s Smart Cities Mission
• India’s billionaire boom isn’t a sign of a hunky-dory economy
• Drones in agriculture: Promise and perils
• Aurangzeb the bad, and our new black-and-white history
• Talking Cinema, Music, and the Pulse of our Times: Ranjan Palit’s A Knock on the Door
• Trump’s Tariffs Have Nothing To Do With Reciprocity, It Is Protectionism-* Makings of a counter-revolution in Nepal
• ‘how Taliban male escort rules are killing mothers and babies
• Susan Crawford Wins Wisconsin Supreme Court Election, Despite Elon Musk’s Millions
• Israel has chosen military occupation over a ceasefire in Gaza. Where does this end?
• The Vast Gaza Death Undercount
• The entanglement of fusion energy research and bombs

Books of Note

• The Second Nuclear Nightmare (Release Date: First week of April 2025 Pages: 208, Price: Rs.225 —Payment: via GPay to (+91) 8547698740 (After payment, WhatsApp your shipping address) Contact: Transition Studies, Room No. 101, Municipal Market Building, Kokkale, Thrissur - 21, Kerala, India)
• To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement by Benjamin Nathans (Princeton University Press, 2024 | ISBN 9780691117034)

* (Cover page artwork credits: Fritz Winter - Eindringendes Rot [Invading Red] (1966))