[bleu]Table of Contents, Mainstream, July 2, 2022[/bleu]

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, July 2, 2022
• Affirmative Action in Higher Education: India and the West | Arup Maharatna
• Academic Freedom, Institutional Autonomy and the Board of Governors | Nabanipa Bhattacharjee & Manish Thakur
• Style in Law as Literature: Reflections on the Dissenting Judgement in The Sabarimala Case (2018) | Monika
• Democracy in peril | Sukumaran C.V.
• CPI and CPI(M) Demand Release of Teesta Setalvad & Others
• Statement by Press Club of India on the arrest of Muhammad Zubair | June 28, 2022
• Unions in Insurance firms justified in rejecting Management’s offer
• India’s President Idolizes Gita Press That Preaches Enslavement of Hindu Women | Shamsul Islam
• Dear Silent Indians | Bhabani Shankar Nayak
• Sri Lanka’s 21st Constitutional Amendment and the Future | Gautam Sen
• Overturning Roe Vs. Wade: Grave Implications For Women’s Rights | Vijay Kumar
• How the Christian right took over the judiciary and changed America | Katherine Stewart
• The Outlook for the Global Economy | Monaem Sarker
• Book Review: What Can India do in Afghanistan? | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Cartoon: The Coup in Maharashtra with a Little Help via the Backdoor | Jayaraj Vellur
• Photo: 1935 passport of Rabindranath Tagore
• Photo: 1956 Polish Workers Strike and Uprising at Zispo metal factory in Poznan
• Painting: Pavel Tchelitchew Deux Marins (Two Sailors) 1923
• Music: Grandezza On Guitar | Baden Powell (1976)

[rouge]Editor’s Picks:[/rouge]

• The Formalization of Informal Workers at Hyundai Motor Company by Minhyoung Kang
• United Nations Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict
• Black Day for Supreme Court; Judges Should Clarify They Didn’t Intend Teesta’s Arrest—Justice Lokur
• More and more, artificial intelligence is keeping the world under watch | Editorial, The Washington Post