Table of Contents - Mainstream, July 1, 2023

In this Issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, July 1, 2023
• Modi Rule vs Nehru’s Era: Comparing the Incomparable | Arun Kumar
• Violence in Manipur an All Out Attack on Shared Culture | Radhakanta Barik
• Decoding ’Paschom Banga Diwas’ | Arup Kumar Sen
• How to Draw a Line on the Ground | Ravi Sinha
• CPM’s 34-year rule in West Bengal (Part 2) | Kobad Ghandy with Ghosh & Hazra
• UCC: BJP’s new campaign mantra for 2024 | Faraz Ahmad
• Narendra Modi Overlords a Mafia Raj | Sandeep Pandey
• Tasleema Nasreen and Islam | Justice Katju
• Lysistrata: through a feminist’s Lens | Pragya Ranjan
• Punjab’s Economic Development Undersiege | Singh & Shergill
• Prime Minister‘s Visit to the US: India’s Moment or Modi’s Moment? | P S Jayaramu
• Russia Ukraine War, No End in Sight | Manoj Kumar Mishra
• Unconditional Ceasefire Needed in Ukraine Conflict to Avoid Catastrophe | Bharat Dogra
• Mass graves expose Sri Lanka’s stinking story | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Plastic recycling is failing – here’s how the world must respond | Bowyer, Roberts, Northen

DOCUMENTS:

• NFIW Fact Finding Mission To Manipur - Press Release 3 July 2023
• IMSD supports a Uniform Civil Code - Press Release
• UP Govt’s ‘Bulldozer Raj’ on Gandhian Institutions Condemnable - Statement by NAPM (30 June 2023)
• Attack on Bhim Army leader Chandrashekhar - Press Note, CPIML New Democracy 30 June 2023
• Press Release from Souvlevement de la Terre [in France], 21 Juin 2023

BOOKS

• Review: No nation for women, reportage on rape from India | Joydip Ghosal
• Will the Government Heed This Book That Makes A Strong Case for Justice to Victimized Maruti Workers | Bharat Dogra

IMAGE & SOUND

• Caricature Tribute to Sylvester da Cunha | Jayaraj Vellur
• Cartoon: Unequal attention on shipwrecks | Awantha Artigala
• Video: The Origins of Life - From Geochemistry to Biochemistry | Nita Sahai
• Music: Saraswati at Montreaux (2017) | Abhijith P S Nair, Sandeep Mohan, Mohini Dey & Dave Weckl

Editor’s Picks:

• Manipur vs Kashmir: Different strokes for different folks
• The Modi Government Must Answer for India’s Historic Bank Loss of Rs 12 Lakh Crore
• Over 60% mosques in Iran ‘closed’
• Eight-year election ban for Brazil’s Bolsonaro
• The Caribbean island of Trinidad grapples with a ‘national crisis’ of violence
• The Guardian view on danger at sea: looking out for all those in peril
• The Moral Crisis of America’s Doctors
• Homo naledi may have made etchings on cave walls and buried its dead

* (Coverpage artwork credits: Trees by Nicholas de Stael (1953) )