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In This Issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 20 & 27, 2024
• 2024 Lok Sabha Elections: Take Action against Intimidation by the State Machinery in Gujarat | Shabnam Hashmi
• Does Congress Manifesto Reflect Muslim League Thinking? | Ram Puniyani
• ’Atmosphere’ being created to discredit the Congress Party | Arun Srivastava
• Interview with Dipankar Bhattacharya, Gen Sec CPIML | Papri Sri Raman
• 2024 Lok Sabha Elections: Moral & Ethical Demand To Set Aside Religious and Caste Considerations, When you Vote | Vijay Kumar
• 2024 General Election: Modi Sees ’Foreign Hand’ Behind Opposition | JP Gadkari
• It’s all in the DNA, is It? | JP Gadkari
• 2024 Lok Sabha Elections – Pre-poll commentary on the Karnataka Scene | JP Gadkari
• 2024 Election Campaigns and Manifestos | P S Jayaramu
• Modi’s anti-Muslim, tirade an outcome of early Shakha training | Faraz Ahmad
• Findings of ADR & National Election Watch / Prison Conditions | Humra Quraishi
• The Disastrous Split and the Challenges Ahead | Ajayakumar Kodoth
• Green Manifesto | Asha Gopinathan
• State Violence and Transformation of Public Spaces in Kashmir | Arup Kumar Sen
• Blazing Inequality: Heatwaves & their impact on women
 | Arundhati Singh Tiwari
• The devolution of education into an examination obsession | Adama Srinivas Reddy
• Implications of Jyotiba Phule’s Reinterpretation of Indian History| Suresh C
• Enduring Significance of Utkal Gaurab Madhusudan Das | S N Sahu
• India’s First Metadata case Deactivating & Omitting Citizenship Part 5 | Gopal Krishna
• Fear of love and loving in India | Sarasu Esther Thomas
• Poem: The Other Night | Murzban Jal
• Democracy, Distrust and Epistemic Disobedience | Cassius Guimaraes Chai
• Recognizing the “De” in Degrowth | Alexander Dunlap

DOCUMENTS:

• Prime Minister Modi, Provide Jobs & Health Care, Dont Eulogize the Atomic Bomb | IDPD
• Statement on Scientific Temper Feb. 28, 2024 at Kolkata
• Feminist Dissent Statement on Genocide in Gaza – April 2024

BOOKS:

• Teresa Huhle. Review of Cooperating with the Colossus: A Social and Political History of US Military Bases in World War II by Rebecca Herman
• Review of Vijayan’s India vs. RSS | Joydip Ghosal

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Cartoon: [India’s 2024 General election] Your Vote will Determine Your Future | Hemant Morparia
• Map of Lutyens’ projected Imperial Delhi, from the Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th ed., 1910-12
• Music Video: Saheb – a political song from India
• Video: The Left, Ecology and Degrowth Panel Discussion
• Documentary: Bhutan – the dictatorship of happiness | Alexandre Spailakovitch and Julien Boluen

Editor’s Picks:

• India’s elections: why data and transparency matter
• In memoriam
• Corrupt Modi – your one-stop place for BJP scams
• India: democracy in name only?
• Civil Society and its Engagement with the Constitution
• Manipur’s BJP CM inflamed conflict: Assam Rifles report on India violence
• Lok Sabha elections as good as rigged: Development economist Jean Dreze
• Misleading analyses of poverty, complacency from policymakers will worsen India’s inequality crisis
• Bitter Fruits
• Fighting the Far Right review – a powerful tale of British Asians who fought against racism
• In defiance of the West, the Taliban will stone women in public again
• A Russian pacifist helped Ukrainians flee the country. Then the Kremlin caught him
• Sudan civil war: The children living between starvation and death in Darfur
• In Brazil, an abortion debate pits feminists against the church
• The Professor of Parody
• New study links hospital privatisation to worse patient care
• Citizenship privilege harms science
• Ultra-processed food (UPF), depletion & social reproduction
• Anxiety really has increased over the past 10 years – but why?

* (Coverpage Artwork Credits: Paysage de Provence, Nicolas de Staël – 1953)