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Table of Contents, Mainstream, Jan 30, 2021
29 January
* Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 30, 2021
* Faces in the mirror held up by farmers’ protest | Amit Bhaduri
* Document: Press Release - Kisan Sansad | Jan 25, 2021
* Document: Accept Farmers’ Demand, Repeal Farm Laws: CPI Press Release, Jan 27
Table of Contents - Mainstream, Jan 23, 2021
22 January
* Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 23, 2021 - The Editors
* The Wonder That’s The Indian Farmer | TJS George
* Communalising Muslim politics is dangerous for Bengal’s social order | Arun Srivastav
* Transition From Divider-In-Chief To Sagacious Unifier | Vijay Kumar
Table of Contents - Mainstream, Jan 16, 2021
15 January
* [Letter to the Readers - Mainstream, Jan 16, 2021
* India Vaccine Rollout Plan Has Serious Shortcomings | Gyan Pathak
* Is This What Democracy Has Come To? | T J S George
Table of Contents - Mainstream, Jan 9, 2021
9 January
* Letter to the Readers - Mainstream, Jan 9, 2021
* Too Much Democracy, Mr Kant, Or Too Little? | Avay Shukla
* Modi government getting ready to confront the farmers | Arun Srivastava
* India in a Scissors Crisis | Shubham Sharma
Table of Contents - Mainstream, Jan 2, 2021
2 January
* How Much of a Democracy is India, Really? | P B Sawant
* Governorship Is Boring - Power Matters | TJS George
* Twenty 20, A Dangerous Trend from Kerala| Sukumaran C V
Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Apr 10, 2021
10 April
Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 10, 2021
Over the past seventy years the United Nations officialdom came to provide the space and place for debate and helped international and global commitments by the nations of the world to a more (...)
Changing Criteria for Ticketing in Assembly Elections: The Case of Kerala in the Midst of Intense Competition| Jos Chathukulam, Manasi Joseph and Rekha V
10 April
by Jos Chathukulam, Manasi Joseph and Rekha V*
Abstract
The candidate selection process and the issues that erupt within the political parties concerned as part of this can serve as a harbinger of the election outcomes, character, and style of (...)
Orakandi’s pilgrim Prime Minister of India: Look London see Paris? | AK Biswas
10 April, by A K Biswas
Part-1 Prime Minister’s pilgrimage to a shrine of untouchables
Prime Minister Narendra Damodar Modi paid on March 27, 2021 his cherished visit to Orakandi, the seat of spiritual as also social reform movement of Harichand Thakur (1812-1877) and (...)
BJP desperate to change the cultural contour of Bengal from class to caste | Arun Srivastava
10 April
by Arun Srivastava
Suddenly the Bengalis, both Hindus and Muslims, have started rallying behind Mamata Banerjee. Even till April 1, the day Nandigram went to the polls, the Bengalis did not share a common perception about the role and policies (...)
‘For a Left Populism’ | Arup Kumar Sen
10 April, by Arup Kumar Sen
Recently, the eminent scholar, Chantal Mouffe, wrote a seminal book titled For a Left Populism (Verso, 2018). She argued: “Right-wing populism claims that it will bring back popular sovereignty and restore democracy, but this sovereignty is (...)