* Randipua Ananta: an Ethnographic text | Radhakanta Barik
* Hazards of Toxic Tides in Sukinda Valley | S N Tripathy
* The role of unions in the era of gig work | Anjali Chauhan
* As Modi’s man, Arif opportunity to settle old scores with SFI | Faraz Ahmad
* Twenty-First Century Socialism | Harriet Fraad, Richard D. Wolff
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Table of Contents - Mainstream, Dec 23 & Dec 30, 2023
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Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Dec 23 & 30, 2003
23 December 2023Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Dec 23 & Dec 30, 2023 (Double issue)
The BJP government of Narendra Modi has commanded a solid majority in India’s parliament since 2014 and has been brazenly using its numbers in an authoritarian fashion (...) -
Reflections on Indian Politics | P. S. Jayaramu
23 December 202321st December 2023
Indian Politics never ceases to attract attention of the academic analysts. But, it is extremely unfortunate that opinions and attitudes about the course and directions of politics have been polarised among both the (...) -
Randipua Ananta: an Ethnographic text | Radhakanta Barik
23 December 2023, by Radhakanta BarikIt is a powerful story of Fakirmohan Senapati by bringing marginal communities into his literary world. Here the Golla Caste is a marginal community in rural Odisha. He has created an epic hero out of this story. Ananta being a fatherless child (...) -
Hazards of Toxic Tides in Sukinda Valley | S N Tripathy
23 December 2023, by S N TripathyOdisha, India, holds a prominent status as the leading global producer of Chromite Ore, accounting for nearly 98 % of the world’s supply, with most of its reserves concentrated in Keonjhar, Cuttack, and Dhenkanal. Moreover, the state is (...) -
The role of unions in the era of gig work | Anjali Chauhan
23 December 2023The loopholes in labour laws will need to be plugged if gig workers are ever to get a fair deal.
In September 2022, the highly anticipated Hindi-language film ’Zwigato’ debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival, shedding light on the (...) -
As Modi’s man, Arif opportunity to settle old scores with SFI | Faraz Ahmad
23 December 2023, by Faraz AhmadIt was the year 1972 and the Aligarh Muslim University was on a boil over the ‘AMU Bill’, the proposed legislation in Parliament (since AMU has all along been a Central university) seeking to pronounce AMU as a ‘Minority Institution’ led by (...) -
Ehtesab - The bogey of accountability | Faraz Ahmad
23 December 2023, by Faraz AhmadDecember 30, 2023
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was the first and only Pakistan Prime Minister duly elected under a proper Constitution, the 1973 Constitution in early 1977, virtually coinciding with the victory of Janata Paty in India. The 1973 (...) -
UID/Aadhaar and the politics of digital totalitarianism - an Interview with Gopal Krishna
23 December 2023, by Gopal KrishnaThe below interview with Gopal Krishna was conducted by Boerries Nehe, a sociology researcher and the coordinator of the International Research Group on Authoritarianism & Counter-Strategies (IRGAC), Berlin. It was submitted for publication by (...) -
Notes on the Dismissal of an Office Clerk in Late Colonial Malabar | Sreejith K
23 December 2023Abstract
Lying in the lower rungs of what constituted the middle class, the clerks, though inhabiting a slightly different cultural milieu, in sheer economic terms, were not far removed from the world of the labouring classes. And like the (...)