Mainstream Weekly
Table of Contents, Mainstream, Jul 30, 2026
Special issue: July 2026 protests by India’s unemployed and students
- Guest Editorial The 100-year Project: Planned Steps to Subvert Education | Papri Sen Sri Raman
- Hindutva got the cracks in its pyramid | Radhakanta Barik
- The Jantar Mantar Protests Were All About Accountability | Indira Jaising, Pratik Patnaik
- The Cockroaches Came Together | Varna Sri Raman
- Four Years After NEP 2020: What AISHE 2023–24 Reveals About India’s Higher Education | Sunit Singh
- Reading Brutal Assertion of State Power in New Delhi | Arup Kumar Sen
- How sincere is Modi in putting education back on rails? | Faraz Ahmad
- The Waning Sting of Sangh Parivar’s Smears | K. Sahadevan
- The Unbroken Thread: How Today’s Youth Movement Builds on Shaheen Bagh and the Farmers’ Protests | K. Sahadevan
- The Youth Are Demanding India’s Constitutional Promise | Vaisakh Baiju
- When Accountability and Morality Go Unheard | Preeti Chauhan
- Jantar Mantar: A New Generation’s Fight For Education and Democracy | Arun Mitra
- Jantar Mantar Protest: Three Points for now | Prem Singh
- Open Letter from the Constitutional Conduct Group on police brutality in Delhi on 20 July 2026
- What Makes This Indian Student and Youth Movement Different? Legacies and Lessons in Uncompromising Idealism | Bhabani Shankar Nayak
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- Scientists Exodus, A Loss For ISRO, Gain of Private Sector | Soma Marla
- Private Versus Public: Is Sovereign Power Of Democracy Controversial? | Sunita Samal
- The New Battle for the Strait of Hormuz| Aftab Alam
- Exclusionary Mission of SIR | Amal Mandal
- The Invisible Burden of Care in India | Aneesh K A and Arya Joshi
- Interview with Antonio Negri —fragment of an interview | Leonardo Caffo
DOCUMENTS:
- CDNP Statement Condemning the violation of the rights of project-affected people of Ken-Betwa Interlinking
- Joint Statement from Central Trade Unions & Samyukt Kisan Morcha - jul 29, 2026
- All India Christian Council Opposes the FCRA Amendment Bill
BOOKS:
IMAGE & SOUND:
- Photo: Two protestors at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi holding a placard with text in Hindi calling for accountability (July 2026)
- Video: Catherine Liu: the Psychology of Liberalism
Editors’ Picks:
- India Unleashes "Massive Crackdown" on Youth-Led Cockroach Mvmt After Education Minister’s Ouster
- You can tear-gas a protest, but not a song: Inside CJP’s music of resistance
- We Are Not Learning Anything’: India’s Gen Z Rage Is a Test for Modi
- The People’s Republic of Cockroachia
- 8 young IPS officers quit service as policing acquires a higher profile than ever in Indian administration
- Delhi Police forcibly entered the CPI(M) Headquarters, AKG Bhavan, in an attempt to arrest SFI leader
- Video: What brought thousands of students to Jantar Mantar?
- Right to protest constitutionally protected, mere agitation cannot justify police crackdown: SC
- Pressure Proof No More: Why Modi Capitulated
- Educate, Agitate and Organise’: With Ambedkar’s Slogans, Students Made Dharmendra Pradhan Step Down
- Well begun is half done
- India orders massive crackdown on books in Kashmir’s libraries
- How war rhetoric is affecting children
- Pakistan: The Country Both Sides Call When the Bombing Starts
- Iran: End escalating campaign of arbitrary executions and death sentences against protesters
- Metamorphoses
- Canton Kitty
- More than 53,000 immigrants have been deported or repatriated by South Africa in a crackdown
- Zohran Mamdani and the Politics of Joy
- The Judeo-Bolshevist Target
- France fires: ’What is burning is not just forests, but a way of inhabiting the land that is no longer possible’
- A Story of Bad Science: How Defenders of Antidepressant Efficacy Make Their Case
- From coolies to revolutionaries: the transformation of identity among Chinese laborers in Russia (1858–1938)
Books of Note:
- De-Democratisation: A Global Story by Kavita Krishnan (Westland books)
* Cover page artwork credits: Robert Delaunay, Rythme, Joie de vivre, (oil on canvas), [1930] [Centre Pompidou, Paris. Public domain. Photo: Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI / Georges Meguerditchian / Dist. GrandPalaisRmn]