[bleu]Table of Contents, Mainstream, June 18 & June 25, 2022[/bleu]

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, June 18, June 25, 2022
• Now Is The Time To Say Goodbye | T J S George
• Jammu and Kashmir: ‘Muscular Policy’ or Policy Paralysis | M A Sofi
• Naga National Assembly: Foreboding of a cold Peace | Kumar Sanjay Singh
• A Spark May Lead to Fire: Could India go the Sri Lanka way? | Radhakanta Barik
• Urgency to Undo Bulldozer Injustice | Faraz Ahmad
• Siddaramaiah’s Brand of Politics in Karnataka | P S Jayaramu
  [vert]SPECIAL FEATURE:[/vert]
• Larger Significance of Naveen Patnaik’s meeting with Pope Francis | S N Sahu
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• BJP’s “Image” & Nupur Sharma’s Comments! | Nilofar Suhrawardy
• A Well-Deserved Recognition for India’s ASHAs | J Chathukulam, M Joseph
• if The Shudras Do Not Rebel, Hindu Rastra Will Form] | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
• GST Council - Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water | Sarma & Sunder
• India Must Ratify the Amendment to Basel Convention | Gopal Krishna
  DOCUMENTS:
• Support free speech; condemn hate speech, death threats | IMSD, June 13, 2022
• United Christian Forum Alarmed at the Rise in Violence Against Churches
• No Democracy Without Free Speech Former State Officials
  BOOKS:
• Review: From Harsh Childhood to Top Politicians | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Book Excerpt: Kalapani Crossings | Bharadwaj & Misrahi-Barak
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• Russian Civilisationism as Alibi in the War on Ukraine | Musaib Rasool
• On the Dispute between China and Taiwan | Sheel Bhadra Kumar
• Gramsci’s Political Imagination | Arup Kumar Sen
• Inside a reintegration camp for Colombia’s ex-guerrilla fighters | Gomez & Hart
• Photo of Artists Ram Kumar, MF Husain, Tyeb Mehta & his wife Sakina Mehta
• 1898 Botanical Illustration: Spring Flowers by Adolphe Philippe Millot
• Music: Mandingo Ambassadors N’Diagno | Tougna (2012)

[rouge]Editor’s Picks:[/rouge]

• Police Linked to Hacking Campaign to Frame Indian Activists by Andy Greenberg
• The farm laws struggle 2020–2021: class-caste alliances and bypassed agrarian transition in neoliberal India by Jens Lerche
• Avoiding ocean mass extinction from climate warming by Justin L. Penn and Curtis Deutsch