Table of Contents, Mainstream, Nov 6, 2021

In This Issue:

• Letter to the readers November 6, 2021
• Tribute to Barun Das Gupta | Sankar Ray
• Gautam Navlakha in high isolation in Prison - Open letter from Sahba Husain
• The Pathology of Standardized ‘Objective†Tests | Avijit Pathak
• Japan’s imperial system faces existential crisis | Rajaram Panda
• Weep For The Women In Afghanistan | TJS George
• Women at COPs: Journey So Far| Shweta Prasad
• The Taliban originated in Afghanistan, Not Pakistan | Apratim Mukarji
• Kudos to cricketer Virat Kohli for shooing away hate mongers | Humra Quraishi
• Religious ultra-conservatism has a field day in Pakistan | James M. Dorsey
• Climate threat over South Asia | Jawed Naqvi
• Withdraw Ken-Betwa River Link Project | Bharat Dogra
• Climate change & the Bengali-Pakistani fisherman incarcerated in India | Beena Sarwar
• Letter to the Prime Minister - over hydel projects on the Ganga in the Himalayas
• Promoting Peace Process in South Asia | KS Subramanian
• Sachchidanand Sinha’s Alternative Vision of Socialism | Prem Singh
• Oppenheim on Lee, Pop Empires: Transnational & Diasporic Flows of India & Korea
• Photo: Frida Kahlo in Mexico with Nayantara Sahgal and Rita Dar in 1947
• Architecture Without Architects | Bernard Rudofsky
• Video: A Testimony On Nodeep Kaur | Ayan Mrinal
• Video: Martina Navratilova vs Chris Evert - Wimbledon 1978 Final - Full Match

From the Archives:

After Indira Gandhi by Nikhil Chakravartty (Mainstream, November 3-10, 1984)