Table of Contents, Mainstream, May 15, 2021

In this Issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, May 15, 2021
• Covid-19 and the Showman - How they lost the plot in India | Jawhar Sircar
• Initiate talks for a National Government | Anil Nauriya
• Governance Lost! Finder will be rewarded | S G Vombatkere
• Covid-19: Opposition Parties’ Letter to the Prime Minister, May 12, 2021
• Managing the Covid 19 Pandemic: Executive’s failures | P S Jayaramu
• Global Vaccine MNC Monopoly depriving the Developing World | Soma Sundar
• Invoke Emergency Powers Under The Patents Act | Chittarvu Raghu
• Foretaste of Oxygen deficiency: A Personal Account | A K Biswas
• ’Didi-o-Didi’ Has Reverse Effects Too | TJS George
• Tribute: Gouri Amma Leaves A Void Hard to Fill | M K Bhadrakumar
• How Himanta Biswa Sarma Became Assam CM | Barun Das Gupta
• The Left Turn Continues in Kerala | Ratheesh Kaliyadan
• Governance in the Odisha - Look Beyond The Catchword | Radhakanta Barik
• Talking of What Was Taboo / Israeli Atrocities on Palestinians | Humra Quraishi
• India’s 1857 Revolt Against the British on its 164th year | Shamsul Islam
• The Need of Women Centric Employment Policies in India | Sonam Arora
• Satyajit Ray: A human facets of a genius | Tarun Kumar Basu
• Remembering Sheikh Mujib and 50 years of Bangladesh | Chaturvedi & Raju
• Book Review: Will Red Star Shine Over India? | M R Narayan Swamy
• Jerusalem: Behind the Explosion of Violence | Carlo Aldrovandi
• CPI Condemns Ongoing Israeli Attacks on Palestine | Press Release, May 12, 2021
• In Solidarity with Palestinians - Statement of Radical Socialist, May 13, 2021
• Israel’s Apartheid Over Palestinians - 2020 NGO Statement to UN HRC
• 1981 Indian postage stamp in solidarity with the Palestinian People
• Artwork: Truth Must Survive | Sagari Chhabra
• Karl Marx’s letter to his daughter Jenny Marx Longuet on 11 April 1881
• Video: How India Can Raise Production of COVID-19 vaccines - Murali Neelakantan
• Video: Arab-Israeli orchestra set up by Daniel Barenboim & Edward Said
• The Story of Bombay’s Snooker Player Wilson Jones - 1971 Documentary Film

*(Cover Page Artwork Credits: "pour MA", May 2021 - Harsh Kapoor )