Table of Contents, Mainstream, March 26, 2022

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, March 26, 2022
• The Aura of Bhagat Singh | M R Narayan Swamy
• Lived Body Experience of Women in Prostitution | Piyali Sur & Stuti Chakraborty
• Integrating struggles of Farmers, Fishers and Forest Dwellers | Dipak Dholakia & Rajesh Ramakrishnan
• The Congress Party: towards reinvention or split? | P S Jayaramu
• Karnataka Court’s Hijab ruling: Blow To The Liberal Constitution | Vijay Kumar
• The Need For Creating Revolutionary Materialism In India | Murzban Jal
• Reflections on India’s Connect Central Asia Policy | Gull Mohammad Wani
• Russia Must End the Invasion of Ukraine | Anil Rajimwale
• Putin’s fascists: Russia’s cultivation of homegrown neo-Nazis | Robert Horvath
• People of Russia protested against the war | Radhakanta Barik
• Safety Concerns over Covid-19 Vaccines | Bharat Dogra
• Caricature Tribute to Mallu Swarajyam | Jayaraj Vellur
• Musical Theme from Charulata (1964) by Satyajit Ray
• Audio: Solar Nuns in Pakistan

Editors Picks:

• BBC - HARDtalk interview with Ilya Ponomarev, Former Member of Russia’s Parliament (25 March 2022)
• Windows shut - The perils of xenophobia by Ramachandra Guha

* (Cover page artwork: Jean Dubuffet, Expériences Musicales, LP Album cover 1961 - Edition: Edizione Del Cavallino)