Table of Contents - Mainstream, July 15, 2023

In This Issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, July 15, 2023
• Modi Regime Can Dismiss European Parliament Resolution Against Hindutva Based Divisive ideology But not Gandhi, Nehru and Ambedkar who Rejected it | S N Sahu
• Logic and Necessity of Anti-Conversion Laws in Tribal Dominant Areas in India| Chhotelal Kumar
• Women and Children in Conflict: Vulnerabilities and Challenges | Lily Sangpui
• Poem: Manipur | Sagari Chhabra
• The Duality of Deaths in the Sea | Debangana Chatterjee
• Malerkotla: An Opportunity to Reimagine the Educational Experiences of Muslim Girls Using a Community-Based Approach | Gupta & Kaur
• Alarming Decline in Maternity Benefits | Bharat Dogra
• Denial of Guaranteed Crop MSP is Pushing Farmers to Desperate Sale | Soma Marla
• Flood Fury / Frenzied Love / Survival In A War Zone | Humra Quraishi
• Japan’s religious right resists marriage equality | Ernils Larsson
• ICRICT open letter to IMF Director on Financial Assistance to Sri Lanka
• Milan Kundera obituary | Kate Webb
• Platform of the 46: 1923 criticism by leading Bolsheviks of Russian Communist Party economic policy & call for inner-party democracy

DOCUMENTS:

• PUCL Statement — Manipur Govt Criminalising Human Rights Work — FIR Against NFIW fact-Finding Team
• Appeal for Donations for Victims of Violence & Displacement in Manipur | NFIW

BOOKS:

• Credible Fantasies | T Vijeyendra
• Sri Lanka’s natural beauty amid fractures | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Bhagat’s Review of Toxic Immanence by Livia Monnet

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Caricature Tribute to Milan Kundera | Jayaraj Vellur
• Video: Electrical experiments with plants that count and communicate | Greg Gage
• Video: A flood-resilient Mumbai? | Subuhi Jiwani
• Music: Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou – In Memory Of Catherine Brady Éthiopiques

Editor’s Picks:

• What will happen in North East if manipur civil war spreads
• Trailer for While We Watched
• War crimes in Tigray may be covered up or forgotten
• Junior doctors begin longest strike yet in England
• How a Peaceful Country Became a Gold Rush State for Drug Cartels
• Russia Has a New Gulag

* (Coverpage Art Work Credits: Sacrifice by Hodaka Yoshida, 1956)