Table of Contents, Mainstream, June 26, 2021

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, June 26, 2021
• Flabbergasted by Incompetence | TJS George
• Our Nation, Our Constitution: A Layperson’s understanding | S G Vombatkere
• On Restoring Growth of Indian Economy | Sarma & Sunder
• Afghan Ghani makes farewell call on Biden | M K Bhadrakumar
• Pakistan ready for peace in Afghanistan, but will not host U.S. bases | Imran Khan
• How the coup is destroying Myanmar’s economy | Thein and Gillan
• Exodus From Myanmar Hits India’s Three Border States | Ashis Biswas
• G-7 and NATO Summits: Challenges in containing China | P S Jayaramu
• Tribute: Arabinda Poddar - A Historian of ‘Bengal Renaissance’ | Arup Kumar Sen
• Transformation of Indian State - Trends & Impact on Civil Rights | Mondal & Jana
• June 24 Talks Between Centre and Kashmiri leaders? | Humra Quraishi
• Waiting to be in the “Bird Box†? | Jeevesh Gupta
• Breathe for India | Maria Reagan
• Mussoorie Bypass Tunnel and Its Ecological Costs | Bharat Dogra
• Photo: Some of India’s Progressive Writers who wrote in Urdu
• Announcement for Dec 1857 London play in response to the Indian Mutiny
• Tribute to Milkha Singh | Cartoon by Jayaraj Vellur
• Tribute to Michel Foucault | Cartoon by Jayaraj Vellur
• Book Review: Mugloo on Bose and Jalal’s Kashmir and the future of South Asia
• Masters on Rajan, Sedrez (eds) [. . .] An Environmental History of BRICS
• ‘No bread, no democracy’ Latin America’s feudal castle | Renaud Lambert
• Excerpt from The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Milan Kundera (1984)
• Feminists say ‘stop anti-rights infiltration’ at the UN | Hovhannisyan, and Provost
• Music: Malian Kora musicians Toumani & Sidiki Diabate
• China’s New Silk Road Part 1 - Prom China to Pakistan | DW Documentary

From The Archive:

The Roots of the Emergency by Nikhil Chakravartty

Documents:

• The Situation in Afghanistan Head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
• India’s New IT Rules do not conform with international norms | UN Rapporteurs
• Involve Trade Unions to Fight Covid - Letter to Prime Minister | Binoy Viswam
• 54 Thousand Tea Garden Workers in West Bengal File Claims | PBKMS

* (Cover page artwork credits: Harsh Kapoor, june 2021)