Table of Contents, Mainstream, Aug 14, 2021 - Independence Day Special

In this issue:

• Thoughts on the eve of I-Day 2021 | S. C.
• 25 Years of People’s Plan Campaign in Kerala | Jos Chathukulam
• Questions over Mangboilal Lhouvum and AFSPA | S.G.Vombatkere
• Independent India: Dreams Unfulfilled | Ram Puniyani
• Those Who Giveth, Those Who Taketh | TJS George
• Jamshedpur ‘Underworld’ and Changing Nature of Crime | Sajjad & Ahmad
• Mystery over Netaji Subash Chandra’s death Lingers | Rajaram Panda
• Undermining the Parliament and Indian democracy | Mondal & Jana
• Policy Paper on Revamping Science Education in Karnataka | PS Jayaramu
• Education in times of Corona crisis in Jammu & Kashmir | Abid Ahmad Shah
• Fugitive moments of compassion | CV Sukumaran
• Indo-US Nuclear Deal and a Cock-and-Bull Story | Sukla Sen
• Book Review: Kobad Gandhy’s Prison Memoir | Gabriele Dietrich
• Book Review: The Earthly Fragrance of Social Science | Avijit Pathak
• When Indians Traded Along Silk Route | M R Narayan Swamy
• The Peasants’ struggle needs widespread support | JVS Murthy
• Vinoba Bhave: His relevance today | BP Mathur
• Is Mamata Bannerjee a viable alternative to Narendra Modi?| Tarun Kumar Basu
• Marxists seek to retrieve lost ground in a Hindutva backdrop | Arun Srivastava
• See to it that the fabric isn’t ruptured | Humra Quraishi
• Sports Policy Should Aim to Promote Health, Joy, and Team-Spirit | Bharat Dogra
• Pakistani stuck in India wants to go home | Beena Sarwar
• Untouchability is worse than slavery in Mauritania | Vidya Bhushan Rawat
• Recollections from a visit to the CeBIT fair in Hannover in 1997 | BS Chauhan
• The Train of Thought | Sagari Chhabra
• Taliban neutralises the Afghan warlords | MK Bhadrakumar
• Afghanistan on a flexuous course | Sheel Bhadra Kumar
• Video: Keynote - Soil Not Oil International Conference 2017 | Vandana Shiva
• Music: Edmar Castaneda plays the Colombian harp

DOCUMENTS:

• No to Snoopgate, increasing Sedition and Defamation Charges | Press Release DUJ
• Kandhamal Day to be observed on 25th August | Press Release, National Solidarity Forum

From the Archives: Spirit of August Fifteenth by Nikhil Chakravartty (‘Editor’s Notebook’ in Mainstream, August 11, 1984)

* (Cover page artwork credits: Harsh Kapoor )