- Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Aug 24
- Setback to Congress Govt in Karnataka | J P Gadkari
- Interrogating a Case of Rape and Murder | Arup Kumar Sen
- Unchecked violence on women and children | Humra Quraishi
- The battle between Bhagwat & Modi has wider implications for rightist politics | Arun Srivastava
- Communal parties in India using the situation in Bangladesh to create communal polarisation | Suresh Khairnar
- India’s palm oil plans wreak havoc on the ground | Chellam, Chinai & Solo
- Bharat Mata Reimagined: Asexuality, Inclusivity and the Symbolism of Same-Sex Marriage Recognition | Disha
- The Echoes of Orwell in Today’s Political Landscape: A Warning from the Past | Pavittarbir Saggu
- Human Rights And Governance: Indicators And Audit Culture | Sunita Samal
- Ukraine War, Peace Proposals and India | P. S. Jayaramu
- French Politics In A Conundrum | Gouri Sankar Nag & Manas Mukul Bandyopadhyay
- State, No State, or the Missing State | Ajay Mishra & Shraddha Rishi
- Austerity and Managed Democracy | Sai Mukhesh
- The Truth about Kronstadt | Marie Isidine
DOCUMENTS:
- Text of Statement by Reclaim the Night Campaign, Kolkata
- Joint Press Statement by Central Trade Unions and Samyukt Kisan Morcha
BOOKS:
- How Western Generosity Helped Stalin Crush Hitler | M.R. Narayan Swamy
- Sarah Foss. Review of Nolan’s, Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala
IMAGE & SOUND:
- Photo: Huta Aluminium Factory, Konin, Poland (1966) by Aleksander Jałosinski
- Video: David Reich, “A Tale of Two Subcontinents: The Parallel Prehistories of Europe and South Asia”
- Curried Jazz – The Indo-British Ensemble – Fusion Jazz from 1969
Editor’s Picks:
- Bulldozer justice and the Indian state’s lawlessness
- The Pinochet Precedent: A Lesson for SEBI in Conflict & Propriety
- Allowing bureaucrats to join the RSS marks the final burial of India’s ‘steel frame’
- Women’s safety at workplace ignored for too long
- The kunwar and the comrade
- Migrants and Machine Politics – review
- 10 things India needs to know about Bangladesh
- What is a woman? Australian court rules in landmark case
- ‘We Took Care of the Network’
- Storytelling dreams and life: Traveling across worlds in the Amazon of Ecuador
- China’s rising youth unemployment breeds new working class: ’Rotten-tail kids’
- The industrial degradation of the workplace that Thorstein Veblen overlooked
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Books of Note:
- The Amateur: Self-Making and the Humanities in the Postcolony by Saikat Majumdar – Bloomsbury Academic | Jun 2024 / 232 pages | ISBN 9781501399886
- The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery by Randy M. Browne – University of Pennsylvania Press | May 2024 / Hardcover 9781512825862 | eBook 9781512825879
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