Table of Contents, Mainstream, Jan 1, 2022

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 1, 2022
• Goodbye 2021. But Welcome To What? | TJS George
• Making Mockery of the electoral process | Arun Srivastava
• With The New Year Unfolding … | Humra Quraishi
• Narratives of Female Sex Workers from ’Tawaif Mandi’, Bihar | Baby Kumari
• Repeal of farm laws: A win to celebrate the power of the people | Geeta Sinha
• Rule of Law in Assam - A Real-Life Experience of an ordinary citizen | Sarma & Sunder
• A Death not so humane: Death machine Versus Dignity in Dying | Minakshi Biswas
• The Irresistible Bell Hooks: A Tribute | Avijit Pathak
• General Bipin Rawat - a modern re-incarnation of Bheema? | Sumanta Banerjee
• An Archeology of Development | Debal Deb
• Dear PM Modi, Hindu Upper Castes Ran the Show for Aurangzeb | Shamsul Islam
• Book Review: A Classic on Bangladesh Liberation War | M R Narayan Swamy
• New Year | Ajit Das
• A cartoonists tribute to Desmond Tutu | Jayaraj Vellur
• Cartoon: Nine to five Jabs, Not Jobs | Nala Ponnappa
• Photo: La Martinere College Lucknow (1900)
• Myanmar’s military coup redux | David I Steinberg
• Left Smiles in Chile | Bhabani Shankar Nayak
• UK: ’Spend money on the NHS - not nuclear subs’ | Philip Gilligan
• Football: The opiate of the people? | Eduardo Galeano
• Audio: Autocratization in South Asia | Sten Widmalm
• Documentary: I am 20 | directed by S N S Sastry

* (Cover page artwork credits: Harsh Kapoor)