Table of Contents, Mainstream, Oct 9, 2021

in this issue:

• Letter to the readers, Mainstream, Oct 9, 2021
• Farmers’ Protest against the Farm Laws seen from W. Bengal | Manabesh Sarkar
• The CPI and Kanhaiya Kumar’s Departure | Ajayakumar Kodoth
• Gail Omvedt: The Legacy of an Activist Writer | Gabriele Dietrich
• Tribute to the Japanese Scientist Syukuro Manabe | Prabir K Patra
• Reading Gramsci in Contemporary India | Arup Kumar Sen
• A Kanhaiya Opportunity For Congress | T J S George
• State of affairs in the Congress Party | P. S. Jayaramu
• Politics of the Fifteenth Finance Commission Recommendations | Govind Bhattacharjee
• Letter to the Governor Regarding Incitement To Violence by Haryana Chief Minister | S.G. Vombatkere
• Dictatorial Ways | Humra Quraishi
• Why River Pollution Remains A Serious Menace In India | Bharat Dogra
• Die Linke disaster barely averted in German elections | Victor Grossman
• National Digital Health Mission | Press Release by IDPD
• New Great Game in the Indo-Pacific | Manoj Kumar Mishra
• Can Gandhism be appropriated by Hindutva? | Radhakanta Barik
• A Brief Introduction of ’Indian Muslims’ by Humra Quraishi | Subhash Gatade
• Book review: Fault Lines in Indian Federal Union | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Ganguly on Das Gupta. The Indian Civil Service and Indian Foreign Policy, 1923–1961
• Conversations With Bapu | Sagari Chhabra
• Abode of Beauty! | Ajit Das
• Photo: Members of the Sky Watchers’ Association, Calcutta | Amit Datta
• Photo of Three Prominent Indian writers in Hindi in the fifties
• Caricature: Congratulations to Abdulrazak Gurnah for the Nobel | Jayaraj Vellur
• Video: This is what a year of climate disasters looked like in 2021
• Video: Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing on Afghanistan Withdrawal
• Music Video: Farmers Rap - Young Daku
• Video: Historian Sheila Rowbotham on the women’s movement in Britain

* (Cover page artwork credits: Henri Matisse - Landscape at Collioure, Collioure, summer 1905)