Table of Contents, Mainstream, Aug 6 & Aug 13, 2022 [Independence Day Special]

In this issue:

• 75 Years of Independent India | Anil Nauriya
• Indian Economy at 75 | Arun Kumar
• Excerpt from the 1981 novel ’Midnight’s Children’ by Salman Rushdie
• Tribute: P M Bhargava, the scientist & rennaisance man | Chandana Chakrabarti
• Flagging Independence Albeit Disengaging Gandhi | Teresa Joseph
• How Shall We Defend our Democracy? | Mahi Pal Singh
• What Threatens Our Independence | D Raja
• Gandhi will live with truth non-violence and love | Prem Singh
• The Failed Fraternity Factor: A wake-up call | S G Vombatkere
• Reflections on 75 years of India’s Independence | Bhabani Shankar Nayak
• Mahagathbandhan alliance Govt in Bihar boosts secular forces | Arun Srivastava
• What’s behind the sweeping powers to the ED by the apex court? | Faraz Ahmad
• Report on Panel Discussion on the Unemployed in Today’s India | Naushad Ali
• Bulldozing the People, their Intellectual and Immovable Properties | Bhavya
• Quit India Movement: An Upsurge of People Against Colonial Rule | Bharat Dogra
• A Significant Role of Muslims in The Independence Movement | Humra Quraishi
• When Swiss neutrality hurt the Indian freedom struggle | Anand Chandrasekhar
• Photo: Frontpage of the Hindustan Times, August 15, 1947
• Photo: 1947 Partition Violence - Telegram of British High Commissioner in India
• Photo: Two Prints from Letters from Home series (2004) | Zarina Hashmi
• Book Review: Periyar’s Revolutionary Critique of Religion | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Book Review: Is Our Democracy Dying? | Papri Sri Raman

DOCUMENTS:

• Flag Waving Nationalism Disrupting Food Security | Right to Food Campaign
• Pakistan - India: Joint Statement on Arrested Fishermen
• Trade Unions on Electricity Bill, 2022 & on Postal Workers Strike
• Hiroshima Declaration - The 2022 World Conference against A and H Bombs

• Bhutan: The world’s ‘happiest country’ claim is fake news | Suraj Budathoki
• There’s no safe level of air pollution | Guy B. Marks
• Ten-Year-old Visionary Social Experiment in Rojava Under Threat - A Letter
• All cultures are not equal | Kenan Malik
• Video: Aspi Chinoy on judicial accountability & Criminalising Human Rights Defenders
• Music: Bumpin’ On Sunset | Tequila (1966 Album) by Wes Montgomery

Editor’s Pick:

• What the ‘woke’ Left and the alt-Right share by Slavoj Žižek
• Russia targets social sciences by Estelle Levresse
• ’Woman, mother, Christian’ guides Italian far-right to brink of power
• Malariology and decolonization: Eastern European experts from the League of Nations to the World Health Organization by Bogdan C. Iacob

* (Coverpage artwork credits: Problem of Bandwallahs by Krishen Khanna (2002))