Table of Contents, Mainstream, Sept 8, 2026

In this issue

• Political Borders Offer No Shield Against Ecological Crises | K. Sahadevan —GUEST EDITORIAL
• Dimagi Naxal: A Dog Whistle that Undermines Chances of Becoming Vishwaguru | Arun Kumar
• The New Gen Z versus the Old Gen Z: A Showdown is Foreordained | Partha S. Ghosh
• The Roof That Crushed Them: India’s Student Housing Crisis | Rajan Kshirsagar
• Recollecting the Forgotten History of State Violence | Arup Kumar Sen
• Protect of Chair of Pakistan Based Bhagat Singh Memorial Foundation | Jagmohan Singh & Bharat Dogra
• Telangana’s Future Will Be Decided in Its Government Schools: An Open Letter to the Chief Minister of Telangana | Adama Srinivas Reddy
• AI Is Changing the Clock of Academia | Disha
• The Invisible Price Tag: Why Destroying Nature Makes GDP Look Good | Saanvi Maheshwari
• Need is Intergenerational Solidarity, Not Generational Exceptionalism | Rasni Bai & L T Om Prakash
• The Toto Paradox of West Bengal: Moving People, Stalling Aspirations | Abhijit Ghosh
• Open Letter - To Iran’s political prisoners, trapped ‘between two blades of a scissors’
• Form-of-Life | Giorgio Agamben

DOCUMENTS:

• Letter to Chief Minister of UP regarding illegal house arrest of leaders and workers of the Communist Party of India (Aug 31, 2026)
• Statement on Assault on Women Journalists by Delhi Police | Editors Guild of India (Sept 6, 2026)

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Video: Jairus Banaji speaks on The Political Culture of Fascism (2016)
• Music: Baila Como Es - Tito Puente

Editor’s picks:

• The Nine-hour Walk: Dissent Criminalised
• Owning Books Is Not Secession: J&K High Court
• Men with Feet of Clay
• Dear Rahul Gandhi, extend your vision of gender justice to youth of other communities as well
• Courting Equality
• Sri Lanka’s working poor: A wage is no longer enough to live on
• What triggered the Rasuwa flood? Scientists piece together a complex chain of events
• Why Nepal floods should worry India
• The Making of a Hindu Nationalist Deeper State in India: Vigilantism Against Democracy
• RSS, World’s Largest Far-Right Network, Runs Global Operations from US
• Rise of the Far-Right Theatre in India
• Maoist leader Azad acquitted in all 49 cases after 15 years in jail
• War against Iran & dialectics of resistance
• Standing With Afghan Women
• The Face of the Socialist Woman: Gender and Photochemical Labour at the Filmfabrik Wolfen
• Gloria Steinem, groundbreaking feminist campaigner, dies aged 92
• They are Coming for the Penguins: Artem Ivanovich Kirpichenok is in a Shin Bet Prison in Israel
• Economists of Kalecki’s circle on Nehruvian planning
• What Does a Puta Want?
• Global harms, local profits: How the uneven costs of natural disasters affect support for green political platforms
• The Price of Russian Paranoia
• Containing Germany’s Far Right

Books of Note:

• Workers on the Road: The India Story from Odisha edited by Deepak K Mishra & Swarnamayee Tripathy (Aakar Books, 2026, 456 pages ISBN 9789350029763)
• The Closing of the Russian Mind: How Putin’s Ideology Took the Nation Hostage by Andrei Kolesnikov (Polity, 2026, 256 pages)

* (Cover page artwork credits: Moritz Meurer - Schemata von Blütenständen (Entwurf zu einer Wandtafel), 1906)