Table of Contents - Mainstream, July 22 & 29, 2023

In this Issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, July 22 & July 29, 2023
• The Unfulfilled Promises of a Structurally Flawed GST: Assessing its Impact During Six Years of its Operation | Arun Kumar
• Growth Conundrum | Govind Bhattacharjee
• Why Say No to Biodiversity and Forest Act Bills? | Soma Marla
• A Case Study on Working Women in Kashmir | Yasmin & Nabi
• Life of D.D. Kosambi: Brilliant Intellectual & Humanist | Kobad Ghandy
• Dissenting Life of Kosambi | Arup Kumar Sen
• Sordid Manipur Ongoings and Modispeak | Sukla Sen
• A common thread of state complicity binding Manipur victims, wrestling champions, and Bilkis Bano | Faraz Ahmad
• Is genocidal violence in Manipur linked to the chronology of Aadhaar Number database, an unending census project? | Gopal Krishna
• Whistleblower Protection Bill 2011: failing anti-corruption crusaders | S N Tripathy
• Karnataka Verdict Drives Congress Party to Change Strategy for Forthcoming Telangana Assembly Polls | Kandagatla Sravan Kumar
• Remembering the Humane Legacy of Oommen Chandy | Chathukulam and Joseph
• Debating Hindutva | Subhash Gatade
• Ban Won’t Stop Transnational Surrogacy | Jutharat Attawet
• Open Letter to UN Secretary-General & President of the World Bank on Setting Goals to Combat Inequality

DOCUMENTS:

• Radical Socialist Statement on Manipur | 22 July 2023
• Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions Press Release on BSNL
• AIBEA Press Release on 55th Bank Nationalisation Day
• Manipur Violence - Press Release by CPI MP Binoy Viswam (20 July 2023)

BOOKS:

• A Book on Forgotten Refugees | Joydip Ghosal
• Chatterjee on Creativity from the Periphery by Deepanwita Dasgupta

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Caricature: Tribute to Oommen Chandy | Jayaraj Vellur
• Caricature: Tribute to Derek Malcolm | Jayaraj Vellur
• Painting: Factory Strike (Voice Of Freedom), 1972 | Bhupen Khakhar
• Audio: Rosa Luxemburg | In our Time - BBC 4
• Video: 8 Billion Lives, Infinite Possibilities

Editor’s Picks:

• Video: Press briefing by united like-minded opposition parties in Bengaluru, Karnataka
• Open Appeal to the Hon’ble President of India on Manipur
• BJP is kissing parliamentary democracy goodbye
• Iran: Morality police return to enforce dress code in cities
• Why the Paris Financing Summit Failed

* (Coverpage artwork credits: Envelope of a letter sent by Jean Cocteau to Pablo Picasso, January 16, 1917)