Table of Contents, Mainstream, June 19, 2021

In this Issue:

• Letter to the readers, Mainstream, June 19, 2021
• Kenneth Kaunda: The Passing of an African Giant | Anil Nauriya
• The Condemned Remain Condemned | TJS George
• Khadija’s Jail Time: A Prison Account from 1949 | Uma Chakravarti
• Reading Rabindranath Tagore in our Troubled Times | Arup Kumar Sen
• A Friend’s Tribute to Sharmistha Choudhury | Nandini Dhar
• Essential Commodities and the People | S G Vombatkere
• Untold Stories of Scottish women in Calcutta’s colonial-era graveyard | Sayan Dey
• Pandemic: Lessons to Learn | Suranjita Ray
• People of Bengal redefine the Marxist ideology and practice | Arun Srivastava
• Domestic Workers in Distress | Bharat Dogra
• India’s Anti-dumping Activities: What’s at Stake? | Bagchi & Bhattacharyya
• When The Health System Became The Cause Of Death | Ramakant & Pandey
• Tribute: Pioneer of Haryana History, K.C. Yadav
• Where Are the Differently-abled in Delhi’s Master Plan of 2041? | Jeevesh Gupta
• Bad Times | Humra Quraishi
• Review: Empowering Smallholding Farmers | Shishir Reza
• Review: Subramanian on Moulik’s ’Rogues among the Ruins’
• Review: A Black Woman’s Journey to White House | M R Narayan Swamy
• Voices from Heaven | LK Sharma
• Circulating a Poem is Naxalite terror! | Mustafa Khan
• Prisoners of Conscience | Sagari Chhabra
• Putin-Biden Geneva Summit of 16th June — Few Highlights | R G Gidadhubli
• Another Right-Winger Gone: Historic Beginning In Israel | Vijay Kumar
• Taliban hold the cards | MK Bhadrakumar
• Pronouncement by Feminists for Democracy in Lima, June 14, 2021
• The Economic Catastrophe as a Passionate Event | Frédéric Lordon
• Photo of Kenneth Kaunda playing the piano and Miriam Makeba singing
• Tribute to Maxim Gorky - Cartoon by Jayaraj Vellur
• Poster for Russian release of Buster Keaton’s silent film of 1924 "Sherlock Jr"
• Music: Wintergatan - Marble Machine
• Video: The Cold War race to the center of the Earth | BBC
• Video: Reading Marx’s Capital Vol 1 – Class 1, Introduction (2019) | David Harvey

• DOCUMENTS:
  • Left Parties Joint Statement - June 13, 2021
  • Recall the Governor of West Bengal - Communist Party of India Resolution | June 15, 2021
  • Call for a national relief and recovery package for the labouring poor
  • ‘Environmental Protection’ No excuse to deprive people of shelter | NAPM
  • FIRs by UP Police Against The Wire and Several Journalists | Statement by Editors Guild of India - June 17, 2021
  • Statement by writers and readers of Gujarati literature about threats issued against them
  • Move to split of Ordnance Factories into Seven Corporations | Press Release by Communist Party of India - June 17, 2021