Table of Contents - Mainstream, Mar 18, 2023

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Mar 18, 2023
• Science as a way of life | Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan
• Conspiracy ’Kaal’ Begins | L K Sharma
• Enter The Monster | Kobad Ghandy
• Nation Fails When the States Fail | Srinivas K. Saidapur
• A Conversation with Dalit Author Bhanwar Meghwanshi | Neeraj Bunkar
• India Vs China: In Himalayan Hydropower diplomacy | Santosh Mathew
• Fading Purpose of Parks in Delhi | Jeevesh Gupta
• Quest for Spiritual Development in Our Times | Bharat Dogra
• The Spirituality Ripoff | Peggy Kornegger
• Where Have All The Herons Gone, New Orleanians Wonder | Martha Rosenberg
• Monks and militias in Myanmar | Thiha and Nilsen

DOCUMENTS:

• Protect Rights of LGBTQIA+ Community: CPI
• Attack on Dalit activist Shalin Maria Lawrence - Statement by NWMI
• Illegitimate restrictions by BSF on the villagers of Paschim Sahebganj in W. Bengal| MASUM

BOOKS:

• How A Secret Meet Between Badal and Rajiv Fizzled Out | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Economic growth is fuelling climate change – a new book proposes ‘degrowth communism’ as the solution | Timothée Parrique

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Sketch of Barrack No. 6 from Jawaharlal Nehru’s prison diary
• Cartoon: India Opposition Groups Protests in March | Nala Ponnappa
• Photo: Estação da Luz Train Station, Sao Paolo (2008) | Silvio Tanaka
• Film: The Tenth Man directed by Jack Gold

* (Cover page artwork credits: Bia Davou - Serial Structures, 1978 (11) )