Table of Contents, Mainstream, July 31, 2021

In this Issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, July 31, 2021
• The Assam-Mizoram Border Clash | Barun Das Gupta
• Pegasus – obfuscating the obvious | Upal Chakraborty
• Apology, remembrance, and the challenge of numbers | John Dayal
• One dream, different dreaming | Ash Narain Roy
• Some Remarks on Movements | Ravi Sinha
• Yediyurappa resigns as CM of Karnataka | P S Jayaramu
• India Under Intolerant Indians | TJS George
• Farmer Politics in Punjab | Pavittarbir Singh Saggu
• Martyr’s Day In Jammu and Kashmir (July 13, 1931) | Gull Mohammad Wani
• Bengal politics: Is the cause of subalterns lost . . .? | Madhusudan Bandi
• Ongoing War in Afghanistan & Spill Over Effects on Central Asia | R G Gidadhubli
• Afghanistan: The final betrayal | Apratim Mukarji
• Interrogating the Death of Father Stan Swamy (1937-2021) | Arup Kumar Sen
• Civil society must strive to complete the unfinished task to protect the Bhima Koregaon victims of injustice | Arun Srivastava
• Marx in the MEGA | Pradip Baksi
• Stakanovism under Stalin & today’s intense work culture | Costea & Watt
• Beware UN Food Systems Summit Trojan Horse | Jomo Kwame Sundaram
• Understanding Floods, Living With Them, Reducing Destruction | Bharat Dogra
• Ecology and Environment | Kalita & Barman
• Covid-19 Pandemic and the Political | Kunal Kumar Yadav
• Review: A British View of Colonial India | M R Narayan Swamy
• Review: Gandhi’s ingenuously reconstructed autobiography | Suhas Borkar
• Gulzar saab, / Yusra Khan | Humra Quraishi
• Danish Siddiqui’s Question? | Ramanujam Meganathan
• A Cup Full of Rebellion | Jeevesh Gupta
• Portrait of Nazar Mohammad the Afghan comedian executed by the Taliban
• 1941 Mural by Karl Bodek interned at camp for ’Enemy Aliens’, in France
• Video: Chris Evert vs Billie Jean King | US Open 1971 Semifinal
• 2020 Tokyo Olympics Medal count
• Pegasus Spyware Scandal: Shashi Tharoor Interview on France24 July 29, 2021
• Documentary: Arpilleras - the story of ten women affected by dams of Brazil
• Video: Spy vs Spy - Cold War Cartoons for MAD by Prohías
• Music: Trio La Rosa de Cuba - Medley (1957)

DOCUMENTS:

• Withdraw Cases, Allow Newspapers to Report | ILNA Press Release, July 29, 2021
• UN Adopts June 18 as International Day for Countering Hate Speech
• Joint International Civil Society Letter to Governments on Pegasus Spyware Surveillance
• South Africa: Covid-19 Working Class Campaign Statement on Rioting, July 25, 2021

* (Cover Page Artwork Credits: Victor Brauner, L’ Archechat (The Arch-cat), 1948)