Table of Contents, Mainstream, Sept 18, 2021

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Sept. 18, 2021
• Miseries of Poverty, Not Pleasures | T JS George
• What is Plaguing the Catholic Church in Kerala? | Chathukulam and Joseph
• Indian Church loses friends and makes new enemies | John Dayal
• India-Pakistan Hatred is a Mindset Problem | M R Narayan Swamy
• Nature key to Human Well-Being and Prosperity | KN Ninan
• Deconstructing ‘Development’ | Arup Kumar Sen
• Biased Agricultural Price Policy Causing Lopsided Production | SS Sangwan
• Minimum Support Price Implications for Agriculture in India | PS Saggu
• Jallianwala Bagh: Erasing the Spirit of Sacrifice | Prem Singh
• People look to the CJI for freedom from state repression | Arun Srivastava
• Virendranath Chattopadhyaya - Indian Revolutionary Abroad | BP Mathur
• Follow Tamil Nadu & Kerala on the Right to Sit for Workers | Bharat Dogra
• Review: Chatterjee’s take on Nationalism & Popular Sovereignty | A Mozumder
• What internal strife can do | Humra Quraishi
• Income Tax “surveys” at news websites | Editors Guild Statement
• Tasks Before the Left Today | D Raja
• India and the Taliban regime In Afghanistan | PS Jayaramu
• Taliban face a Hobbesian choice | Apratim Mukarji
• Russia’s Rationale for ‘Foreign Agent Act’ | RG Gidadhubli
• The Aesthetics of Silence | Susan Sontag (1967)
• Visual: 1914 Medical Illustration on Bandaging the Thumb | Eldridge L. Eliason
• Photo: Migrant workers in Calcutta (2001) | Raghu Rai
• Cartoon: Spreading Harmony is Subversive in Times of Hate | Rajendra
• Video: The Invisible Woman | Jayati Ghosh
• TV Documentary: The Berlin Wall, our family, and us | DW

* (Cover Design: Harsh Kapoor | Art work: fragment from a puzzle)