Table of Contents, Mainstream, Feb 5, 2022

In this Issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Feb 5, 2022
• Union Budget 2022-23: The ‘Amrit Kaal’ mirage | P S Jayaramu
• 2022-23 Budget Whose Silences on Immediate Issues Are Ominous | Prabhat Patnaik
• Beneath the numbers in the 2022-23 Budget | SS Sangwan
• Union Budget 2022-23: A Comment | Sarma & Sunder
• Need to Reaffirm Pluralism | Suranjita Ray
• Interrogating ‘Normalcy’ in the Kashmir Valley | Arup Kumar Sen
• NDA Agenda Against Federal Structure in Civil Services | K S Chalam
• Reading? Subhas Bose Is Dead, Isn’t He? | TJS George
• Bahaar is Missing! | Humra Quraishi
• The Problem of Stray Cattle in Uttar Pradesh | Sandeep Pandey
• Increase the NREGA Allocations in New Union Budget | Bharat Dogra
• Rani Gaidinliu - Woman Freedom Fighter from Northeast India | Ajailiu Niumai
• NFIW on Union Budget 2022-2023 - Preliminary response
• Health Ignored in the 2022 budget - IDPD Statement Feb 1, 2022
• Text of Statement by Leaders of the Five Nuclear-Weapon States | Jan 3, 2022
• Hindutva is European Fascism at work in India | Bhabani Shankar Nayak
• Caught in the everyday rut | Kangkana Shivam
• Cartoon: SBI withdraws rule against pregnant women | Jayaraj Vellur
• Cartoon: Darling Spring Has Sprung | Michael Leunig
• Review of La Serna’s book on Peru’s Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement
• GB Yakthumba & Nepal Uprising Against the Ranas | Mandeep Lama
• Capital, Governments, Multilateral Agencies, and NGOs | Pradip Baksi
• Myanmar: while the world sits, people fight military junta | Ronan Lee
• Music: Nani Nana by Sundar Popo
• Video: The History of the Dutch Slave Trade 1600- 1863

Editor’s Pick:

• Transforming a Brazilian Aeronaut into a French Hero: Celebrity, Spectacle, and Technological Cosmopolitanism in the Turn-of-the-Century Atlantic by Patrick Luiz Sullivan De Oliveira (in: Past & Present, Vol 254, Issue 1, Feb 2022)

* (Cover Page Artwork Credits: untitled, Harsh Kapoor, Feb 2022)