Table of Contents - Mainstream, Apr 29 & May 6, 2023

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Apr 29 & May 6, 2023
• Re-imagining Social Justice Politics in India Today | K Srinivasulu
• May Day 2023 | Kobad Ghandy
• The Global Economy Drives the Climate Crisis | S.G. Vombatkere
• The Saga of Satya Pal Malik | Arup Kumar Sen
• Why Struggle of Women Wrestlers Against Sexual Harassment Needs Wider Support | Bharat Dogra
• Issues & strategies in 2023 Karnataka Assembly Elections | P. S. Jayaramu
• Rahul, a hero in the fight against Modi’s communal politics | Radhakanta Barik
• From Rath Yatra to Bharat Jodo Yatra | Ram Puniyani
• Reversal of Land Reforms and Land to Tiller Remains a Distant Dream | Soma Marla
• Sexuality, Marriage, and the State | Bhabani Shankar Nayak
• Poem: Venceremos (We will Win) | Raul Zurita
• Poem: O Lordships! | Sagari Chhabra
• Towards an Asian Union | S Faizi
• Dr Faizi’s fatuity | Justice Katju
• Ten Years After Rana Plaza Factory Disaster in Bangladesh | Strachov, Gulrukh, et al
• Sudan: Violence between army and militia is destroying Africa | Paul Jackson

DOCUMENTS:

• IMSD condemns ‘Maulana’ Sajjad Nomani’s Talibani firman
• Abolish the Office of the Governor - Private Member’s Bill by CPI Leader
• Southasia Peace Action Network condemns Poonch attack, supports Pakistani foreign minister’s India visit (April 25, 2023

BOOKS:

• Review: The Rise and Fall of Basu Chatterji | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Review: The Looming Shadow of the 1866 Famine in Orissa | Suranjita Ray
• Review: Brian Elliott on Stethoscope by Anna Harris, Tom Rice

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Cartoon: World Book Day 2023 | Jayaraj Vellur
• Photo: Worker’s Hands, Mexico, 1927 | Tina Modotti
• Audio: Interview with the Human Rights Lawyer Hina Jilani [13370]
• Video: Harry Belafonte & others discuss the civil rights March, Washington, 1963

Editor’s Picks:

• What the wrestlers’ protest says about power and politics in India
• Legislative Intent of the Constituent Assembly Resonated in Basic Structure of the Constitution
• Ten Years After the World’s Deadliest Garment Factory Disaster
• Goldman Prize honours indigenous woman who stopped mining giant
• Inside Russia’s Crackdown on Dissent
• Sleeping beauties review

* (Cover page artwork credits: Lajos d’Ebneth composition 1926)