Table of Contents - Mainstream, July 8, 2023

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, July 8, 2023
• NCP Split Signals Pincer Attack of BJP on the Opposition | S N Sahu
• Rajeev Lochan Das: a sanyasi rebel | Barik and Padhiari
• Why make a film on a Hindu epic in today’s polarised India | Justice Katju
• Exchange-ability in the Environment of Digitality | Shibaji Ray
• The Coming of the ‘Waves’ and the ‘Normalisation’ of the ‘Viral’ | Prothoma Rai Chaudhuri
• Can the New National Research Foundation Redeem ailing Indian science? | Soma Marla
• National Research Foundation: welcome step, but ...| P S Jayaramu
• The D.D. Kosambi Research Foundation: Goals and Strategies | Kobad Ghandy
• Premature Death of an Education Policy | S. K. Saidapur
• Need to Enhance Refugee Integration in India | Dr Beena
• Vasant-Rajab Exemplary of Communal Harmony in Gujarat | Pandey and Rahman
• Deer Park, Dear Park | Jeevesh Gupta
• Pakistan pays a high price for China corridor | Claude Rakisits
• India’s discontent with the SCO | M K Bhadrakumar
• Revolutionary Intellectuals | Issa Shivji

BOOKS:

• Far-sighted Khushwant Singh saw fascism rising / Dipankar Gupta’s book of Lockdown | Humra Quraishi
• Review: Fighting the Left | Matthew A. Hall

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Photos: Istanbul 1950s | Ara Güler
• Displaced and Detained – Rohingya in India, a short documentary
• Paul Robeson: The singer who fought for justice and paid with his life

Editor’s Picks:

• For Sri Lanka’s forex-earning garment workers, it’s a daily battle for survival
• Industrial Revolution iron method ‘was taken from Jamaica by Briton’
• Who is funding the anti-abortion movement in Europe?
• Probiotics, prebiotics and postbiotics: The microbe garden in your gut

(Coverpage artwork credits: Victor Brauner 1964)