Table of Contents, Mainstream, Aug 28, 2021

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, August 28, 2021
• Corona-capitalism: Reverse the Reset [Part B] | Kobad Ghandy
• Re-masculinizing Labour in Bangladesh’s Ready-Made Garment industry | Strumpell & Ashraf
• Modi’s Monetisation Plan Mortgaging Public Wealth to Big Business | C P Chandrasekhar
• Domestic Workers Protest Emphasizes Need For Protective Legislation And Immediate Relief | Bharat Dogra
• Why Remember Partition Horror? | Ram Puniyani
• Return of the Taliban | Apratim Mukarji
• The U.S. and the Taliban or Frankenstein and his Monster | Sukumaran C V
• Seeing Hinduism Upside Down | TJS George
• Every single week, communal onslaughts | Humra Quraishi
• Drawing parallels: British Partition Plans for India and Palestine | Komal Deol
• Political Crisis in Belarus Getting Aggravated | R G Gidadhubli
• China threatens to nuke Japan | Rajaram Panda
• Quad meets the “Saigon moment” | M K Bhadrakumar
• USA: How Animal Rights Moved From Soggy Leaflets and Skateboards to a Movement| Martha Rosenberg
• Book Review: Story of Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America’
• Photo: Turning Shop - 1st Bay, Jamalpur Railway Workshop, 1897
• Comrade - Dalit poem from 1978 translated by Gail Omvedt and Bharat Patankar
• Cartoon: Taliban Stop Trade with India | Soumitrhran
• Women of Afghanistan | Badri Raina
• An Afghan Woman Speaks | Sagari Chhabra
• ’Memu Choostamu’ - Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s ’Hum Dekhenge’ sung in Telugu
• Music: L. Subramaniam, Jean Luc Ponty, Billy Cobham
• Documentary: How the Muslim-Christian divide killed Lebanon’s golden age of basketball

DOCUMENTS:

• Indian Muslims must reject the ‘Islamic Emirate’ in Afghanistan: Statement from Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy
• Support Women In Afghanistan & Oppose Imperialism - Statement by AIDWA Aug 20, 2021
• On Disastrous National Monetisation Policy - Statement by Communist Party of India

From the Archives:

• Freedom Day at Amritsar | Nikhil Chakravartty (Aug 24, 1996)

* (Coverpage artwork credits: Auguste Herbin [no date] )