• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Aug 10, 2024
• On Violent Political Transition in Bangladesh | Arup Kumar Sen
• Palashi 2.0 at Dhaka, Dhanmondi | Kazi Tanvir Hosen
• Bangladesh: Hope for a New Future? | Papri Sri Raman
• Bangladesh, A time to recall the most tragic events of 1975 | Bharat Dogra
• Bangladesh’s next leaders face a daunting task | Shahab Enam Khan
• Will Bangladesh go in the Iranian Way? | Bhabani Shankar Nayak
• Did the WFI contribute to deprive Phogat of Olympic Gold ? | Faraz Ahmad
• Union Budget 2024-25 – A Welfarist Rather Than Transformational Budget | Ajit Kumar Singh
• Indo-US Relations in Historical Perspective | P. S. Jayaramu
• Impact of the Controversial Changes in NCERT Textbooks | Tamanna Yadav
• How U.S. Policy is Sinking Kerala’s Fishermen While Andhra Thrives | Santosh Mathew
• Wayanad Landslide Disaster and Impudent Development Path | Soma Marla
• Wayanad and the Development Paradigm: Tragedy of Our Time | Muzaffar Assadi
• Should We Ready for the Dirge of Demise? | Amarendra Kishore
• Allies Assemble: Uniting for LGBTQIA+ Rights | Disha
• There was once a time of India’s close bonding with Palestine | Humra Quraishi
• Why Top Leaders of Israel, as well as Hamas, Should Resign | Bharat Dogra
• Excerpts from Letters of Insurgents by Sophia Nachalo and Yarostan Vochek

DOCUMENTS:

• CPI on the Developments in Bangladesh | Aug 6, 2024
• Indians for Palestine – Press Statement August 9, 2024

BOOKS:

• Review of Bennett, M. Todd, Neither Confirm nor Deny: How the Glomar Mission Shielded the CIA from Transparency | Chuck Steele

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Caricature: Tribute to Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee | Jayaraj Vellur
• Photos & audio: in August 1968 people of Prague came out to protest the Soviet tanks to crush reform
• Documentary: Unbroken Ground
• Music: Hit or Miss (1970) | Odetta

Editor’s Picks:

• Listen to Criticism
• Can India become rich before its population grows old?
• Of the, For the and By the Organized sector
• 14 years after the dilution of the Gadgil report, devastation continues in the Western Ghats
• Central Hall
• Exclusive: Sports Ministry Has ’No Details’ of Inquiry Report on Brij Bhushan
• What’s next for Bangladesh after PM Sheikh Hasina’s resignation?
• Lessons of Political Arrogance from Dhaka Need to be Heeded in New Delhi
• Remembering Black July through ‘Brotherless Night’
• Ice-cream and ‘Nans against Nazis’: uplifting acts in face of far-right riots
• Eastern Europe’s purchase of US nuclear reactors is primarily about military ties, not climate change
• ‘This war is a tragedy’: freed prisoner Ilya Yashin vows to re-educate Russians on Ukraine
• Towards a feminist political ecology of migration in a changing climate
• The time to act is now: the world’s highest court must weigh in strongly on climate and nature

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Books of Note:

• The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It by Genevieve Guenther (Oxford University Press | ISBN: 9780197642238)
• Geographies of Solar Energy Transitions: Conflicts, controversies and cognate aspects | Siddharth Sareen (Editor), Abigail Martin (Editor) (UCL Press | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800087309)
• Hindu Nationalism in South India The Rise of Saffron in Kerala | Nissim Mannathukkaren (Editor) (Routledge | ISBN 9781032003061)