Table of Contents - Mainstream, June 10, 2023

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, June 10, 2023
• Our Times, Our Challenges, and Our Options | Ravi Kiran Jain
• Distress from railway accidents may be much higher | Bharat Dogra
• 2023 Telangana Elections: B.C. Agenda key to all main parties | Kandagatla Sravan Kumar
• Misogynists in Power / Prison Conditions / Refugees Day | Humra Quraishi
• Patriotic Criminals & Anti-national Criminals | Sandeep Pandey
• Wrestlers’ struggle for justice: Will it endure? | Prem Singh
• Underrepresentation of Muslims in Higher Education | Badre Alam Khan
• Life in the 21st Century: Reflections from the ‘Developed’ World | Aishwarya Bhuta
• Bhagat Singh And His Religiosity | Sahastranshu Pandey
• Reading Gramsci Ethnographically | Arup Kumar Sen
• Turkey: what to expect from ErdoÄŸan & his ultranationalist alliance | Balki Begumhan Bayhan
• Thousands Rally Against Poland’s Authoritarian Right Wing Govt | Jake Johnson

DOCUMENTS:

• Solidarity with Women Wrestlers Protest - Statement by Banking Workers
• Statement in Solidarity with Women Wrestlers - Women’s & Human Rights groups
• Five years behind bars for five activists Without bail, without charges being framed, without justice! | PUDR
• Press Statement regarding petition challenging amendments to IT Rules
• International Call to Defend Democracy & Against the Soft Coup in Colombia

BOOKS:

• A Story of Police Injustice – And Reprieve | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Review of Ellermann, Greg, Thought’s Wilderness | Paige Figanbaum

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Cartoon by Manjul on the Balasore Train Accident and ’Nationalist’ Slogan Shouting While People Need Empathy
• Photo: Workers at Pangka sugar factory, Indonesia | Tomasz Tomaszewski
• Senegalese Music: Kora Summit Band / Ame Kora performance of Miniyamba
• Video: Money, Power, Impunity - Bankers who Stole the World

Editor’s Picks:

• Existential terror
• India cracks down on critics of coal
• When democracy is merely top-dressing on a feudal base
• Modi’s Mann Ki Baat and Its Many Themes, as Rendered by Some Well Known Artists of the Country
• Vietnam: outcry after leading climate activist arrested, accused of tax evasion
• Hong Kong: 8 held on eve of Tiananmen Square anniversary
• One year after killings in Brazil’s Amazon, tensions run high

* (Cover Page Artwork Credits: Frederick Hammersley - Do you Zee #37 (1969))