Table of Contents, Mainstream, Jan 15, 2022

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 15, 2022
• Is the nation in crisis? | S G Vombatkere
• On Punjab elections and farmers participation | Chaman Lal
• Remembering the Rupaspur-Chandwa Massacre | Anand Chakravarti
• Modi Against Kashi | Radhakanta Barik
• Listen To Electron & His Brothers | T J S George
• Dealing with the “Uberization†of the Workforce | Kingshuk Sarkar
• Clash of small-scale fishermen & big boatmen in Vizag | Pradeep Chatterjee
• Odisha Millets Mission - promoting sustainable food systems | Geeta Sinha
• Letter Number 2 To Kanhaiya Kumar | Murzban Jal
• Mahatma Gandhi & the Malabar Rebellion of 1921 | Teresa Joseph & A M Thomas
• Rethinking the Paris Commune of 1871 | Arup Kumar Sen
• A Grim Reality We Are Ignoring | Humra Quraishi
• Online Harassment of Journalists Statement from Editor’s Guild of India
• VI Settlement - Why this largesse to private TSPs - Statement by AITUC
• Thoughts on Prof. Avijit Pathak’s Retirement from JNU | Aishwarya Bhuta
• Cartoon: Uttar Pradesh Based Kalashnikov Factory in India | Hemant Morparia
• South Korea’s anti-feminism surge offers political gain | Kaylin Kim
• Photos: Raymond Depardon’s perspective of Hanoi 1992
• Video: Political Economy and its Fallacies | Utsa Patnaik
• Music Audio: Ballad | Shiv Kumar Sharma
• Documentary: The GDR defector and the Bulgarian border guard

EDITOR’S PICK

• Pandemics and the Shape of Human History by Elizabeth Kolbert (The New Yorker)
• Air pollution: Delhi’s smog problem is rooted in India’s water crisis by Mridula Ramesh (BBC News)

* (Cover Page artwork: Harsh Kapoor)