Table of Contents, Mainstream, Jun 12, 2026

In this issue:

• For the US, Trade, QUAD matters more than human rights in India | John Dayal
• Precarity of Border-Crossing People in West Bengal | Arup Kumar Sen
• Kerala’s Governance Challenge | A. M. Jose and Jos Chathukulam
• The Protest in Sijimali in Odisha | Suranjita Ray
• India-USA Interim Trade Deal, 2026: Impact on Agriculture & Farmers Welfare | Nayakara Veeresha
• Understanding educational bureaucracy and caste stratification through A.R. Vasavi’s Government Brahmin | Ishita Sinha
• Sexual Harassment At The Workplace | Akshita Srivastava
• The Politics of Fiscal Allocation: What the GDP Criterion Signals in India’s 16th Finance Commission | Shubhalaxmi Jaydeep Sagare, Tiny S. Palathara
• The Politics of Violence Against Doctors | Alok Ajakkala
• Sufism: Towards a Truer Picture | Khizra Abidi and Bhavuk
• Recognition undone: the Transgender Persons Amendment Act, 2026 and the return of social morality | Divya Parmar
• Beyond the Hindi versus regional languages: the case of Khortha | Mrinalini Raj
• Re-reading Gangadhar Adhikary’s Thesis | Sindhunil Barman Roy
• What is missing in Piketty’s well-intentioned aim of prosperity for all while achieving climate goal | Bharat Dogra
• Militarisation: Journalism and Control in Ukraine | Ilya Kharkow

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Music: M° Roberto De Simone - Tarantella De Lu Cacare
• Film: 6:40 pm - student film by Mani Kaul (1967)

Reader’s Picks:

• Political parties must find common cause with Gen Z, worker protests
• A Bleak Future? Uncertain Prospect of Populism in Bengal
• Laws in India have eroded workers’ powers for collective bargaining. The ICJ’s ruling must prompt reform
• ’Gross Abuse Of Law’ : Delhi High Court Quashes FIR & ED Case Against NewsClick, Prabir Purkayastha Over Foreign Funding
• The road that divides us: What the Malviya Nagar fire reveals about Delhi
• India’s Republic of Uncles
• Anand Patwardhan’s Award-Winning Film ‘Father, Son and Holy War’ Removed From YouTube
• Bridging the Care Gaps: Exploring the Role of Digital Labour Platforms for Elderly Care in India. Development
• D.B.S. Jeyaraj: A relentless intellectual pen in SL Tamil politics
• For Dubai’s Migrants, War Is One More Worry in Super Stressed Lives
• Organising the Unorganised in Their Struggle to Attain Decency and Dignity
• Labour, Rights and Constitutional Imagination
• The furious dispute over what caused Air India flight 171 to crash
• Iran’s Regime: The Guardianship of the Ulema
• The Ghosts of Antonio Gramsci
• A good life for the 99% isn’t a pipe dream: it can be done. Here’s how
• Corrupt Regimes
• At the Forefront of Power: Interpellation and State of Emergency
• The Inertia of Russia’s War
• Acceleration of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians must spur global action to halt West Bank annexation

Books of Note:

• ‘The Monster in Your Path: The Private Life of Caste in India’, by Sharika Thiranagama (Permanent Black)

* (Cover page artwork credits: Construction of the new gasworks (1931) by Rudolf Maeglin )