Table of Contents, Mainstream, June 5, 2021

In this issue:

• Letter to the readers, Mainstream, June 5, 2021
• Origins of Corona and the Conspiracy Theorists | Kobad Ghandy
• Chronicle of deaths foretold | Ash Narain Roy
• Review of foundation document of CPI | Nityananda Ghosh
• Official Marxism in India disappearing in sync with global trend | Sankar Ray
• Requiem for an unknown Nun in the time of Covid | John Dayal
• Plight of Domestic Workers During Covid-19 Pandemic | Sarkar & Agrawal
• India of Nightmare | LK Sharma
• What Is The Best Way of Disposing Off A Dead Body? | Jain & Pandey
• Modi-Shah Blunder Over Lakshadweep | TJS George
• Personal Guarantors Per-Se Not Discharged | Chittarvu Raghu
• In Search of the Politics of Life | Arup Kumar Sen
• How Short A ’Short’ Is Too Short? | Sparsh Sharma
• Opposition Must Unite to Fight Discrimination by the Centre | Arun Srivastava
• Hazards of Growing Inequality In India | Gull Mohammad Wani
• As Pandemic Surges, Indian Women Crippled with Limited Access to Menstrual Products | Ananya Pathak
• BJP-RSS Politics and Economic Plight of Dalits in India | Ram Puniyani
• Finance capital uses Covid for maximization of super-profits | Anil Rajimwale
• Is A Dissenting View On COVID-19 Vaccine Allowed? | Bharat Dogra
• Why The Epidemic Of Superstition Is Worth Fighting | Tanmay Jyothis
• PM Modi reinventing politics to shift blame for the Covid-19 crisis | Nafis Haider
• 7 Demands To The Govt in the Present Crisis | Citizens For Democracy, June 2, 2021
• Supreme Court Ruling on Sedition Case Against Vinod Dua | Editors Guild Statement
• China’s AI-Driven Techno-Economic Hegemony | Patnaik & Pradhan
• Ecology and Economics | John Scales Avery
• Disaster patriarchy: the pandemic has unleashed a war on women | Eve Ensler
• Visual: Poster - National Movt for Emancipation of Women in Chile, 1937
• Visual: A Woman’s Place is In The Resistance | Hanna Barczyk
• Video: Sing Me A Song With Social Significance | Harold Rome & the ILGWU
• Video: Artist Taloi Havini explores the sound of the sea
• Video: Documentary film on Comrade Mythili Sivaraman | Uma Chakravarti (2012)

* ( Cover page artwork credits: Banbin (1974) by Alfred Pellan)