Mainstream Weekly
In this Issue:
- Another India, Cast Out of Time and Place: Why India’s Youth Movements Stop at the Rural Edge | K. Sahadevan
- Uttar Pradesh Police fast losing its Credibility | Sandeep Pandey and Shashank Singh
- Hamara paisa, hamara hisaab | Varna Sri Raman
- Economic Growth vs. Social Justice: The Post-Liberalisation Dilemma in India | Nithya N.R
- Trump’s contempt for her Nobel is a tribute to Navanethem Pillay | M.R. Narayan Swamy
- Patriarchy, Public Memory, and the Burden of Grace | Pallavi Devi and Rinkie Bora
- Societal collapse of sense making | Sunil Ray
- The ‘Total Strike’ Has Come for France | Frédéric Lordon
DOCUMENTS:
- CPI Statement on Repression Unleashed by the Modi Government to Prevent Peaceful Agitation - Oct 9, 2026
- Joint Statement by Left Parties on restrictions to prevent the October 10 mobilisation over fixing of electoral rolls & accountability of Election Commission
BOOKS:
- Asian power helped to end British Empire in India | M.R. Narayan Swamy
- Review of Stefan Peychev’s The Nature of the Ottoman City Water and Urban Space in Sofia, 1380s–1910s | Dale Stahl
Editor’s Picks:
- A Dangerous Reframing: Protest as disruption, not accountability
- Why Modi Govt is Turning ’Vote Chori’ Protests Into a ’Regime Change’ Plot
- India Comes Onboard: ‘Cockroaches’ and the Global Gen Z Revolts
- Jantar Mantar was a democratic asset. It has just been ‘denotified’
- The Link Between TCS, SIR’s Digital Stack, and the Noel Tata-N. Chandrasekaran Tussle
- The preschool child, the state, and women’s social care in India, 1919–1975
- Kamal Aron Mitra Chenoy: Professor, Debater, Protester Who Would Have Fought On Today
- Identity assertion versus material transformation: Ad Dharm, Sikh theology, and the Ambedkarite project
- India and China aren’t friends - but Nepal wants to unite them against climate threats
- Filling or leaving Lenin’s void? Regime type and monument politics in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
- Chomsky, Said, Falk: Three Titans and the Disappearance of the Progressive Public Intellectual
- End of Term
- Capitalism, Peasants, Family Farms: A Bibliographical Essay
Books of Note:
- Stalin’s Gulag at War: Forced Labour, Mass Death, and Soviet Victory in the Second World War by Wilson T. Bell (University of Toronto Press, 2018, 280 Pages)
- The Making of a Socialist Night: Society, Imagination and Everyday Life in Czechoslovakia 1945-1960 by Lucie Duskova
* (Cover Page Artwork Credits: Joris Minne — Smoke (1930) )