Table of Contents, Mainstream, May 22, 2021

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, May 22, 2021
• The West Bengal Arrests: The Politics of Vendetta | Barun Das Gupta
• Dravidian Stock. Surya vs Annadurai | TJS George
• On Sycophancy, the Indian Variety | Arup Maharatna
• Socialism - Association of Free Individuals | Paresh Chattopadhyay
• The Doppelgangers of Mayhem | Jawed Naqvi
• Statement by UNICEF Executive Director about Afghanistan attack 9 May 2021
• Change of Chief Minister in Karnataka - Speculations Galore | PS Jayaramu
• Of floating dead bodies and imperial edifices | Sukumaran CV
• Modi, modern emperor of new India and his hatred for poor | Arun Srivastava
• A Pledge for ‘National Re-Construction’: A Homage to Nehru | Rakesh Batabyal
• Joint Statement on Afghanistan by India & European Commission (May 4, 2021)
• Covid-19 Pandemic: Bringing the Best & the Worst in Humans | Vikash Sharma
• Remembering Kasturba Gandhi - report from a webinar | Sebi Joseph
• Revive Dange-Line to Revive Parliamentary Left in India | Pratip Chattopadhyay
• What is left for the left in West Bengal? | Abhijit Ghosh
• Are any socialists left in Indian politics? | Gopalkrishna Gandhi
• Cess-Based Welfare of Workers Faces Uncertain Future | Bharat Dogra
• Dual Circulation - A New Development Paradigm in China | Anil Kumar Kanungo
• justice for the Palestinians - Letter to President Biden | Humra Quraishi
• Tribute: Rabi Dash, Ex-Communist & Sarvodaya Man Passes on | Nava Kishor Das
• Cartoon: Quiet Flows the Ganga 16 05 21 | Jayaraj Vellur
• Have you written down my name? | Suhas Borker
• Review: Mehrotra on ’Geraldine Forbes—Lost Letters and Feminist History’
• Photo: “Rhythm of labor†, 1960 by Nikolai Matorin (Риколай Маторин)
• An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis | James Baldwin
• War Crimes in Gaza - Israeli Human Rights Group B’Tselem
• Audio: Boris Kagarlitsky on the shifting political terrain in Russia | Radhika Desai
• Video: Miss Marx (biographical film on Eleanor Marx) | Susanna Nicchiarelli

* (Cover Page Artwork Credits: Opus Ten WE 359, 1969 by Naum Gabo. Naum Gabo was a Russian sculptor involved in the Constructivist movement but his ideas ran counter to the Bolsheviks’ doctrine of artistic utility and he moved back to Germany in 1922 where he had earlier done university education and then to France and after the second world war he moved the US )