Frontline – August 02, 2019

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POLITICS

Karnataka:Triumphof
chicanery 21
Constitutionalissues 24

BUDGET 2019

Wooingspeculativefinance 26
VacuousSurvey 29

LEGISLATION
ForestAct changessideline
gramsabhas,tribalpeople 32

COMMUNALISM
MadhyaPradesh:
Bovinepolitics 36
PehluKhancase:
Victimas accused 38

HIGHEREDUCATION
U.P.:Private universities’
autonomyunderthreat 41

WORLDAFFAIRS

HongKong:Protestsagainst
“Extradition Bill” 44
Sudan:A chancefor peace 48
Libya:Horrorstoriesof an
unendingwar 51
Russia’sown “happiness
project” 54

COVERSTORY

A conversationwiththe

MarxistthinkerAijazAhmad 4

“TheRashtriyaSwayamsewak

Sanghhadlongsettledona

strategywherebyit willaccept

theliberalinstitutional

structuresbutwillfightto

acquirelong-termstatepower

bytakingovertheinstitutions

of thestatefromwithin...

thereis nofundamental

contradictionbetween

projectsof theFarRight and

theliberalinstitutional

structures;RSScantakehold

of thoseinstitutions andrule

throughthem.”

WWIILLDDLLIIFFEE

Whencheetahs bond 59

CCIINNEEMMAA

AnandPatwardhanscores

againwith “Reason” 83

Interview with the

film-maker 86

SSOOCCIIAALLIISSSSUUEESS

Maharashtra:Neoliberal

roadto poverty 89

CCIIVVIILLSSEERRVVIICCEESS

“Lateralentry”,

ablow to reservation 91

SSCCIIEENNCCEENNOOTTEEBBOOOOKK 94

DDAATTAACCAARRDD

India’s rubberproduction 96

BBOOOOKKSS 67

LLEETTTTEERRSS 98

On the Cover

AijazAhmad

COVERDESIGN:T.S.VIJAYANANDAN

PHOTOGRAPH:MOHAMMEDYOUSUF