Table of Contents, Mainstream, Oct 23, 2021

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, October 23, 2021
• India’s Covid Death Toll: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics | K N Ninan
• Global Financial Architecture Underlies the Illegality of the Rich | Arun Kumar
• Not all can see democracy’s power | T J S George
• Online Dating Apps: Changes and Continuities in Gender Relations | Piyali Sur
• Violence, Militancy and Terrorism: A way forward | S.G.Vombatkere
• Do Not Falsify History by Linking Gandhi to Savarkar’s Mercy Petitions | S N Sahu
• JP and his many experiments with democracy | Murari Sharan Verma
• JP as a failed politician | Radhakanta Barik
• Book review: Caste, Class Combined to Make Bombay | M R Narayan Swamy
• Justice Lokur’s Advocacy of Protective Role of Judiciary | Bharat Dogra
• COP26 and Climate Justice | Soma Marla
• Reviving Social sciences in Karnataka to implement the NEP 2020 | P S Jayaramu
• Radical Socialist Statement on the Brutal Killing at Singhu border
• Fact-finding Report on Attack on Christians in India | Oct 2021
• Bangladesh Violence of Oct 2021: Statement by Concerned South Asians
• Mobilise for humanitarian support to Afghans - PIPFPD Statement
• Honour French Teacher Samuel Paty & Defy Fundamentalism - UN Experts
• Personalities split Nepal’s communist parties | Anil Sigdel
• Fascists smash into HQ of Italy’s biggest trade union | Dave Kellaway
• Texas schools to teach ‘opposing views’ of the Holocaust. Why? | Francine Prose
• Dusshera 2021 | Badri Raina
• Photo of Mobilisation of Landless Farmworkers in Brazil | Sebastião Salgado
• Cartoon on International Dog Day in Country of Gurus | Nala Ponnappa
• Video: Towards An Efficient And Equitable Health System – Prof. K Srinath Reddy
• Jazz: Carioca (1939) by Artie Shaw with Buddy Rich

* (coverpage artwork: Harsh Kapoor)