Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 15, Apr 12, 2025

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Apr 12, 2025
• Who are the Victims of Education Scam in West Bengal? | Arup Kumar Sen
• Tahawwur Rana only a small player: former Home Secretary | Faraz Ahmad
• Many-sided Contributions of Medha Patkar | Bharat Dogra
• Jagathamma’s Story | Sreejith K
• How Far We Are in Achieving SDGs 2030: Evidence from West Bengal | Md Sahidul Islam
• From Physical Harm to Digital Silencing: Gender-Based Violence as a Mechanism of Control | Surbhi Nagpal
• The man who would be king again? Former Nepal king’s delusions of power | Som Niroula
• Global Inequality Research Award for Bina Agarwal (Video of her lecture — Hidden Inequalities, Visible Outcomes: A Gender Lens)
• Impact of Trump’s Trade Tariffs on Indian Agriculture | Soma Marla
• Who Defines ’Indian’? | Sunit Singh
• Sri Lanka Today - A Visitor’s View | K Srinivasulu
• UK’s move to punish four men for war crimes won’t help Sri Lanka | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Social Cost of Automobility | Sunil Dharan

DOCUMENTS

• Massive Teacher Shortages in Jharkhand, High Court Cracks the Whip
• All India Federation of University & College Teachers’ Organisations Press Release —April 8, 2025
• CPI Condemns the Raid at the Residence of Manish Kunjam in Sukma, Chhattisgarh
• Statements by CPI & CPI(M) on the Price Hike of Gas Cylinders

BOOKS

• Fascinating Narrative on Mahatma Gandhi’s Travels & Public Meetings | Bharat Dogra
• Review of Abbas’s Pakistan’s Nuclear Bomb | Raymond Whisenhunt

IMAGE & SOUND

• Cartoon: on Corruption in the Judiciary | Hemant Morparia
• Photos: ASHA women health workers protest in Kerala, India (March 2025)
• Video: How India’s Data Protection Act Weakens the Right to Information? | Anjali Bhardwaj
• Video: The Economics of a Dying Empire (w/ Richard Wolff)
• Music: Last Night (1961 instrumental single by The Mar-Keys

Editor’s Picks

• Bastar: Blood on our hands
• Mumbai’s move to privatise five government hospitals will hit slum dwellers hard
• Why the SC’s Judgment in R.N. Ravi Case Restores the Autonomy of Elected State Legislatures
• Governors who bring disrepute to the office must be shown the door
• Appeal to President of India to Discontinue the Services of Tamil Nadu Governor
• Newly elected CPIM general secretary M A Baby lays out the tasks before the party soon after its 24th congress
• CITU expels four ASHAs for visiting protest site in Thiruvananthapuram
• A new framework
• Indian Railways says no to meals and toilet breaks for Loco Pilots
• Is India’s Nuclear Environmental Governance Robust Enough for its Nuclear Plans?
• The Promise of India: Recalling Dadabhai Naoroji
• In China’s debt
• ’A scary place’ — Jason Stanley on leaving Trump’s America
• The White House Frames the Past by Erasing Parts of It
• The Mystery of ICE’s Unidentifiable Arrests
• The Brazilian Judge Taking On the Digital Far Right
• Israel military razed Gaza perimeter land to create ‘kill zone’, soldiers say

Select Websites:

• The Indian Sub-Continent: Glimpses of Its History by Buchamma (Lakshmi Rameshwar Rao) https://sites.google.com/view/the-indian-sub-continent/home]

• Distinguished Indian Economists https://azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/indian-economists-through-time

* Coverpage artwork credits: Anni Albers - study for Camino Real made in 1967)