Table of Contents, Mainstream, Aug 27, 2022

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Aug 27, 2022
• Diamond Jubilee or Rusted Freedom? [Part 2] | Kobad Ghandy
• India’s Public Healthcare for the 21st Century | Govind Bhattacharjee
• Talk of Employment Creation | Sunil Ray
• Marx’s mathematical manuscripts - an overview | Sankar Ray
• Separating Wheat From the Chaff in the Age of Fake News | Jos Chathukulam
• Can we expect the apex court to revise its remission decree of May? | Faraz Ahmad
• Release of 11 culprits in the Bilkis Rape Case & Misogyny of VHP, RSS, BJP | Arun Srivastava
• Ugly Underside of Everyday Humour in India | Gaganjot Kaur
• Himachal Pradesh’s Vulnerability to Floods & Landslides Increasing | Bharat Dogra
• R. K. Laxman Cartoon on 15 August 1959

DOCUMENTS:

• Prevailing situation in Jammu and Kashmir | Statement by CPI KSC
• Pegasus: Judiciary must ensure accountability | Press Release by CPI(M)
• Vizhinjam Port, ecological & social impact - Letter to the Kerala Chief Minister
• India Should Respond to Pakistan PM & Talk Peace | Statement from PIPFPD

• Book Review: A Window to Cricket and India | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Book Review: Anees and Soumitra | Deepti Priya Mehrotra
• Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich
• Music: Aaj Kay Naam Our Aaaj Kay Gam Kay Naam | Nayyara Noor Sings Faiz
• Film: Diary of a Nobody (1964) - Ken Russell

Editor’s Picks:

• German train line switching fully to hydrogen
• The (un)making of democracies
• Qatar deports migrants after wage protest, rights group says
• VP Menon: The forgotten hero who stitched India together
• Brazil’s never-ending war on the poor
• Climate change: Why we can’t rely on regrowing coastal habitats to offset carbon emissions by Phil Williamson, Jean-Pierre Gattuso

* (Coverpage Artwork Credits: Cartoon by Saul Steinberg )