Table of Contents - Mainstream, June 3, 2023

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, June 3, 2023
• Thoughts for World Environment Day | S.G.Vombatkere
• The Smart City: Some Critical Perspectives | Alruba Sheikh
• India’s development strategies | Bala Ramulu Chinnala
• The rural wage rule GOI must relinquish | Jean Dreze
• Maruti Suzuki: A Manager’s Testimony | Arup Kumar Sen
• Electoral Verdict of Karnataka| Nayakara Veeresha
• A Warning on the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework | Bharat Dogra
• And Now They Target Poet Mohammad Iqbal | Humra Quraishi
• Woman, Nature & International Division of Labour: interview Maria Mies | Ariel Salleh (1987)
• Satanism, ritual cults and Hollywood: debunking ‘satanic panic’ conspiracy theories | Bethan Juliet Oake

DOCUMENTS:

• Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill, 2023 Undermines PESA Act 1996 | Statement by Bhumi Adhikar Andolan
• Open Statement by Concerned Citizens Regarding Intimidation by the ED of Dr. Navsharan Singh
• G7 Hiroshima Meet Shun Calls for Prohibition / Abolition of Nuclear Weapons

BOOKS:

• Review: Sharma on ‘Interpreting the World to Change It: Essays for Prabhat Patnaik’
• Leo Chu Review of ’The Globalization of Wheat by Baranski’
• An Insightful Peep into Pakistan’s Minorities | M.R. Narayan Swamy

SOUND & IMAGE:

• Cartoon: Free Speech is a Myth . . . | Nala Ponnappa
• Wassily Kandinsky’s Illustrations: On the Dance of Palucca (1926)
• Music: Anthem of Irish Republican Volunteers During Spanish Civil War

Editor’s Picks:

• Wrestlers’ protest shows how Indian law is a tool of oppression rather than an instrument of justice
• India official drains entire dam to retrieve phone
• Remembering Jawaharlal Nehru, Secularist, and True Nationalist
• Karan Thapar interviews historian Madhavan Palat on the ’Sengol’ issue
• New Parliament Building Consecrated With Falsehood Associated with Sengol
• GDP growth of 6.1% in Q4. How does it help the common man
• India’s agony and ecstasy over NATO Plus
• Indigenous groups protest Brazil bill limiting recognition of tribal lands

* (Coverpage Artwork Credits: Ill. by A. Surgaleine (1971) )