Table of Contents - Mainstream, Apr 15, 2023

In this Issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream April 15 2023
• What’s wrong in a neoliberal philosophy of education? | Arup Maharatna
• The plight of ad hoc teachers in Delhi University: way out? | Garima Mani Tripathi
• Looking into the Other Side of Merit | Gyan Prakash
• ‘Rationalization’ of Textbooks or Communalisation of Polity? | Ram Puniyani
• Fix Problems in India’s Rural Jobs Programme | Bharat Dogra
• India’s workforce woes | Anthony P D’Costa
• Tribute to the Forgotten Workers’ leader – Santosh Kumari Devi | J Ghoshal
• What Sparing The Adani Group From JPC Probe, Reflects? | Aurobindo Ghose
• Iris Murdoch Prize-the reborn Booker Prize | Devaki Jain
• A splendid dream interrupted | Jawed Naqvi
• Concern by Thai Civil Society Groups over Deportation of Asylum Seekers to Myanmar
• Impact of Russia-Ukraine War on Ukrainian Youth | Shete & Wamane
• The cost of war leaves Ukraine struggling to pay its teachers | Kateryna Semchuk
• These neurons are the reason you yawn | Estrada & Prioris

BOOKS:

• A Classic on Indian Magic | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Paula Larsson. Review of Charles, Nicole, Suspicion

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Tribute to Aljafee | Jayaraj Vellur
• Photo: Mother and Shoeshine Boy 1950s [Mexico] | Manuel à lvarez Bravo
• Music: Heygana (1990) | Ali Farka Touré
• Video: The Purpose of Education | Noam Chomsky (2012)

Editor’s Picks

• In Madhya Pradesh, 3 Muslim Academics Face Criminal Cases Filed By Hindu Right, Backed By State Govt
• Lessons from the Supreme Court’s judgment on the Media One news channel
• Wages of Distress
• Adivasi migrant labour and agrarian capitalism in southern India
• He is a Brutal Dictator and one of the West’s Best Friends
• Phosphorus Saved Our Way of Life and Now Threatens To End It

* (Cover page Artwork Credits: Harsh Kapoor, April 2, 2023)