Table of Contents - Mainstream, Aug 12, 2023

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Aug 12, 2023
• Need to Restore Harmony & Peace: Manipur, Nuh, Train Shooting | Ram Puniyani
• Modi’s perfunctory reaction to Manipur indicates a larger game | Faraz Ahmad
• What Went Wrong With The Communist Movement In India | T. Vijayendra
• Why is the reality of the Prime Minister’s political capital veiled! | Prem Singh
• On 1980 Moradabad Riots | Arup Kumar Sen
• Higher Education Policy for Karnataka: Some Issues for Consideration | P S Jayaramu
• New Law Brings Wider Hope for Gig Workers | Bharat Dogra
• Gig-Workers Deserve Rights as Employees | CPI MP Binoy Viswam
• Can An Award Chain the Conscience of an Individual? | Sandeep Pandey
• Caste is Independent of Religiosity and Inconsistent with Conversion | Rajiv Ranjan Prasad
• Tackling Mumbai’s Infrastructure Woes | S. N. Tripathy
• Women authors, Partition stories, and shared histories | Sara Arshad
• Chinese Communist Party branches out into private businesses | Jerome Doyon
• Colombian Left Wing Govt’s First Year Is Marked By Measures For Social Justice | Laura Capote

DOCUMENTS:

• Haryana Violence: hatred being created, mass migration being forced - CPI
• Statement on Press and Registration of Periodicals Bill, 2023 | Editors Guild of India
• Statement by PUCL Maharashtra over Multiple Murders by RPF constable Chetan Singh!

BOOKS:

• Mughal Kings who Promoted Sanskrit, Hindu Epics | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Review of Electrifying Mexico by Diana J. Montanno | Jaclyn A. Sumner

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Caricature: Tribute to Gaddar | Jayaraj Vellur
• Photo: Singer Gaddar with writer Varavara Rao in Hyderabad, India
• Cartoon: Hell Breaks Loose Over Flying Kiss in Parliament | Nala Ponnappa
• Music: Dorothy Masuka - Nginje

Editor’s Picks:

• Gaddar: The Voice Of The Margins
• Where ‘No One Wanted Girls,’ a Dad in India Takes On the Patriarchy
• Dr Justice S Muralidhar: India’s Lincoln Lawyer and the boldest judge the Supreme Court never had
• Could’ve Been My Dad, Writes a Muslim Woman About the Mumbai Train Shooting
• Deep Sea Mining Destroys Marine Biodiversity
• The Protests Inside Iran’s Girls’ Schools
• Notes on police violence in the United States
• Why pain is so hard to measure – and how our study of brainwaves could help
• The human cost of France’s nuclear tests in the Pacific
• Russia to Build Migrant Village for Conservative American Expats

* (Cover Page Artwork Credits: Loló Soldevilla - Constellation (Constelación), 1960)