Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 16, Apr 19, 2025

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers
• Tribute: Anil Chaudhary spent a lifetime dedicated to a public cause | Nalini Ranjan Mohanty
• My Lords, Beware of delay tactics | Faraz Ahmad
• The Legality of Child Testimony | Lakshmi Karlekar, Tanishaa Pandey
• As Highway Expansion Escalates, Will India Learn from Past Mistakes to Take Corrective Steps? | Bharat Dogra
• Do Muslims Need Reservations? | Ishrat Husain
• The Elderly Facing Repercussions from Disability | Harpreet Kaur
• Informal Employment In India Remains Close To 90 Per Cent Since 2014 | Gyan Pathak
• Re-Thinking World Order | Sunita Samal
• International Law At Vanishing Point | Vijay Kumar
• Bangladesh: Mob violence — Causes, consequences, and pathways to justice | Zakir Kibria
• Vargas Llosa loved and loathed Castro’s Cuba | Ash Narain Roy
• The two Mario Vargas Llosa | Ignacio Ramonet

BOOKS

• Beyond the Fences: A Rationale for Cohesive Development | Sanjoy De, Atanu Sengupta
• Review of Aleksandra Komornicka’s Poland and European East-West Cooperation in the 1970s | Pawel Markiewicz

IMAGE & SOUND

• Cartoon on Terrorists | Nala Ponnappa
• Cartoon - JNU has seen it before Harvard | Alok
• Music: Summer Song | Ludovico Einaudi
• Video: Trump, Netanyahu, and the Real Estate Logic of Genocide | Phyllis Bennis

Editor’s Picks

• ’Alarming’: DU asks professor to submit text of proposed lecture at US university for leave approval
• RSS and BJP’s quiet takeover of Auroville
• Panic-stricken amid Trump’s visa purge, Indian students look at private universities back home
• SC action on TN governor is not overreach. Here’s why
• Bombay high court issues notice to Devendra Fadnavis over alleged irregularities in 2024 Maharashtra election
• Contrary to Prime Minister Modi’s claim, both Dr Ambedkar and Syama Prasad Mookerjee envisioned reservations for minorities
• [Sri Lanka] The Sixth Anniversary Of Easter Carnage
• You Can’t Please All – review
• Mario Vargas Llosa, giant of Latin American literature, dies aged 89
• [UK] Miners’ strike campaigner Anne Scargill dies
• Atomic Secrets: a Chornobyl scientist warns of a toxic future
• Why resurrect the dire wolf when existing animals are facing extinction?
• Gaza: Increasing Israeli “evacuation orders” lead to forcible transfer of Palestinians
• What can the global left learn from Mexico – where far-right politics hasn’t taken off?

Books of Note

• Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine, by Avi Shlaim (The book can be ordered directly at the publisher’s website: https://irishpages.org/product/genocide-in-gaza/?v=7885444af42e)
• The Ex Daughters of Tolstoy House by Arunima Tenzin Tara (Speaking Tiger | ISBN 9789363362536 | https://speakingtigerbooks.com/product/the-ex-daughters-of-tolstoy-house/)

* Cover page artwork credits: Harsh Kapoor)