This issue of Mainstream is dedicated to the memory of Karamat Ali, the most respected labour rights activist from Pakistan and a leading mover for peace in South Asia
- Guest Editorial – Fear still stalks religious minorities | John Dayal
- India’s Eighteenth Parliamentary Poll and the Left in Decline | Sukla Sen
- BJP-led NDA Coalition Government: Continuity and Change | P. S. Jayaramu
- Nitish, Naidu’s transactional concerns take precedence over any socio-political issues | Faraz Ahmad
- Strengthening the Idea of Participatory Democracy in the Indian Context | Shalu Nigam
- Confrontation in Karnataka | JP Gadkari
- Link Whole Sale Price Index to Increase Crop MSPs | Soma Marla
- Nature and Role of Middle-Class Today | Anil Rajimwale
- The Journey of Women’s Reservation in Nagaland | Bomito V Kinimi and K Gireesan
- India’s First Metadata Case: Why No to Bio-Political Tattooing through Aadhaar Number Online Database? Part 7 | Gopal Krishna
- Heat Wave Has Increased Awareness of the Urgency of Water Conservation Efforts | Bharat Dogra
- Rainbow Reflections: Pride Marches as Heterotopias of Liberation | Disha
- Winds of Change rock the Marginalised Lambani Community in Karnataka | Veerendra Kumar & Thippeswamy N
- Mechanization of popularity: Deciphering Nancy Tyagi’s virality on the internet | Twinkle Siwach & Mehak Dua
- What I’ve learned from Noam Chomsky | Beena Sarwar
- Spilling the Spanish beans | George Orwell (1937)
DOCUMENTS:
- Tribute to Karamat Ali – Statement by PIPFPD India Chapter, June 21, 2024
- Safai Karmacharis should be protected from extreme heat – Safai Karmachari Andolan (June 20, 2024)
- Mere words cannot be criminalized in a democracy | PUDR (June 17, 2024)
- Withdraw the prosecution against Arundhati Roy & Dr Sheikh Showkat Hussain under the UAPA! | PUCL (June 15, 2024)
BOOKS:
- Will the Sun Shine Again in Manipur? | Arup Kumar Sen
- Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan wins the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024 | Ankhi Mukherjee
- Maxson on Cooley, ’The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance’
IMAGE & SOUND:
- Charlie Hebdo Cartoon when the French Communist Party abandoned the concept of ’Dictatorship of the Proletariat’
- 1987 Interview with Leszek Kolakowski
- Video: Science Is Reconsidering Evolution
- Music: Mari Boine – Vuoi Vuoi Mu (Vuoi Vuoi Me)
Editor’s Picks:
- Labor rights, peace activists from across India, Pakistan mourn demise of activist Karamat Ali
- Labour rights activist Karamat Ali laid to rest
- New Criminal Laws Which Kick in July 1 Will Create Legal, Judicial Mess, Endanger Life & Liberty
- NCERT row
- Lathis, threats and Gunshots
- To Think of Modi 3.0 as Less Dangerous Would Be a Misreading
- Valsan Thillankeri and how the Sangh grows in Kerala
- How the Modi regime targets people overseas
- The National Testing Agency is a scam – shut it down now!
- Remembering Dhirendra Sharma, quintessential dissenter and academic-activist
- Outraged Brazilian women stage protests against bill to equate late abortions with homicide
- A cycle of debt, sex work and cocaine: the women in West Africa caught in Europe’s drugs trail
- How Britain’s Labour Party Became Electable Again
- Migrants on exhibition: The emergence of migrant worker museums in China as a neoliberal experiment on governance
- Experiencing forced migration: challenges of arriving after displacement from Ukraine
- Ozempic: Reshaping Desire Since 2023
After the truth-shower 