Table of Contents, Mainstream, Aug 21, 2021

In this Issue:

• Open the doors for the Afghans - HK
• The Time Has Come, Warns Mamata | TJS George
• Sudha Bharadwaj Speaks | Arup Kumar Sen
• Coronacapitalism: Reverse the Reset [Part A]| Kobad Ghandy
• Taliban says it will respect women. But we Iranians have seen this movie before | Masih Alinejad
• Malala: I Survived the Taliban. I Fear for My Afghan Sisters
• CIA’s turn to tell the truth on Afghanistan | Jawed Naqvi
• On Events in Afghanistan | MK Bhadrakumar
• Taliban and Al Qaeda: Putting a fox in charge of the chicken coop? | James M. Dorsey
• Who Will Heal the Wounds of Afghanistan?| Bharat Dogra
• India in world affairs during last 74 years | P S Jayaramu
• Poem: Gandhi’s Compass | Suhas Borker
• Disorganized ‘Forest’ Management bodies & Raji’s Life Chances | Bhawesh Pant
• Cultural Dimension of Climate Change | Pavittarbir Singh Saggu
• Book Extracts from Yusuf and Zuleika | Murzban Jal
• Population Control Bill: Is there a need? | Bajaj & Pandey
• Myanmar - what happens when dictators take power | Ronja Koskinen
• Book Review: Replacing the Dead ... in post-war Soviet Union by Mie Nakachi
• Photo of Actors on the set of ’Aranyer Din Ratri’ the 1970 film by Satyajit Ray
• Caricature: Tribute to Federico Garcia Lorca | J Vellur
• Caricature: Kabul Falls to the Taliban | J Vellur
• 2007 Painting on ’Woodstock’ by US singer-songwriter Grace Slick
• Video: Indian Economy 1947-2021 with Arun Kumar, Akhilesh Bhargava
• Video: Afghanistan - Land of endless war | A DW documentary

Documents:

• Prevent Cultural Disaster in Afghanistan - Statement by UN Special Rapporteur on cultural rights | Aug 17, 2021
• NWMI Statement in Solidarity with Afghan Women Journalists Amidst Taliban Takeover | Aug 17, 2021
• Radical Socialist Statement on Afghanistan: A Double Tragedy
• PUDR releases report ’The Anti-Labour Codes’ (August 2021) | Press Statement Aug 16, 2021
• Citizen’s Statement demands release of the incarcerated in the Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case

* (Cover page artwork credits: Harsh Kapoor)