Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 4, 2025

• Manmohan Singh: A gentleman politician India was lucky to have | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Dr. Manmohan Singh – The Architect of Viksit Bharat | Atul Sarma
• Rare people of integrity and compassion | Humra Quraishi
• A Tragic Coincidence | J P Gadkari
• 2024 and its lessons for India | P. S. Jayaramu
• Privatization of Vizag Steel Plant | Soma Marla
• Challenges To Democracy In India | Avatthi Ramaiah
• Liberal democracy shrinks in India, Turkey and the US | Rahul Mukherji, Berk Esen
• Unpacking the Hindu Code Bill episode of 1940s-50s | Bhuvak
• The changing face of employment in the 21st century | Upal Chakraborty
• Who KIlled Judge Loya? | Suresh Khairnar
• Interlinking Rivers: The story from scratch | S.G.Vombatkere
• Municipal Socialism | Petr Kropotkin

DOCUMENTS:

• Amit Shah’s symbolic appropriation and material destruction of the Ambedkarite Constitution | PUCL Statement
• Statement on the record of India’s former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh | Radical Socialist
• IMSD opposes calls for a ban on Satanic Verses

BOOKS:

• Review of Intondi’s, Saving the World from Nuclear War | Eric Ross

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Caricature: Tribute to Shyam Benegal | Jayaraj Vellur
• Photo: Azovstal Metallurgy Plant, Mariupol, Soviet Union (1937) | Boris Ignatovich
• Music: Sound of Train – Ustad Zakir Hussain (2015)
• Documentary: Environmental Disaster Fuelled by Used Clothes

Editor’s Picks

• Manmohan Singh, India’s prime minister from 2004 to 2014, has died
• Rest In Peace Bapsi Sidhwa Story Teller Par Excellence
• Manmohan Singh’s Legacy Had Lessons for Democratic Governance, Statesmanship
• Indian Communists’ Muslim Dilemma
• The Indian Sub-Continent: Glimpses of Its History | Lakshmi Rao / Buchamma
• School enrolment down by over 1 crore in 2023-24, says govt. report
• Tonnes of toxic waste removed decades after gas leak that killed thousands
• Restoring constitutional order in Manipur
• ‘Something has been taken away’: Pakistan’s well-kept FGM secret
• New Taliban Rule Mandates Women Must Not Be Seen from Neighbors’ Homes
• Recasting Syria
• A Deadly Apathy
• Impact of Climate change, loss of biodiversity affects children’s health

Books of Note

• The Rout of Prabhakaran by M.R. Narayan Swamy (Konark Publishers Pvt Ltd, ISBN-10: ? 8197343276 / ISBN-13: ? 978-8197343278)
• Toiling for Oil: A Social History of Petroleum in Iran by Touraj Atabaki (Cambridge University Press, November 2024, Online ISBN: 9781108991186)
• Public Sphere and Experience: Analysis of the Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Sphere by Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt (Verso, February 2016, 350 pages / ISBN 9781784782412)