Table of Contents, Mainstream, Sept 11, 2021

In This issue:

• Letter to the readers, Mainstream, Sept 11, 2021
• Azadi, Amrit Mahotsav & Savarkar | TJS George
• Gandhi, Godot and Pandemic Plague | Muzaffar Assadi
• Language Policy in India With Reference to Northeast Tribes | J J Roy Burman
• Taliban get a government! | M K Bhadrakumar
• US foreign Policy after Afghanistan | P S Jayaramu
• The Kharasrota River Not for Sale | Bhabani Shankar Nayak
• Some thoughts on the Ganesh festival and related matters | S G Vombatkere
• A Sordid Saga of Caste And Backwardness Politics | P Radhakrishnan
• Militarization of Shastric Hindu Texts | Arup Kumar Sen
• Understanding 9/11 – Explore the Less Obvious Aspects More | Bharat Dogra
• Book review: Did Netaji Live, Die in India Post 1947? | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Introduction of Secular English Education and Learning in Bengal | Niranjan Dhar
• Texas Anti Abortion Bill: Blow To Women’s Right & Legacy of Roe Vs Wade | Vijay Kumar
• Cartoon: The Holy Cow & The Eclipse of Scientific Temper | Jayaraj Vellur
• Cartoon: Afghan Taliban Announce Ban on Music | Jayaraj Vellur
• Photo: Walter Benjamin at Bibliothèque nationale in Paris, 1937 | Gisèle Freund
• Video: Modi government’s asset monetization plan - panel discussion
• Sri Lankan Baila Music: Irene Josephine | Wally Bastiansz
• Documentary Film: The Many Lives of William Klein (2012)

Documents:

• Resist loot of our national assets - CPI(M) / Do Not Sell National Assets - CPI
• Petition Against Deletions of Mahastweta Devi & others from the Delhi University English Literature Syllabi
• Statement demanding a postponement of COP-26

* (Cover page artwork credits: Carla Accardi - untitled, 1954)