Table of Contents - Mainstream, Aug 19, 2023

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Aug 19, 2023
• PM Modi’s Thousand-Year-Old Slavery Narrative in His Independence Day Speech Distorts History | S N Sahu
• Remembering Bindeshwar Pathak | Devaki Jain
• Tribute to Achyut Yagnik | Bharat Dogra
• With Naveen, Odisha Plays Snakes and Ladders | Radhakanta Barik
• Freedom: Corroded And Stained | Kobad Ghandy
• Get smart, get rich: Consultants and India’s cities | Uttara Purandare
• What is behind Modi’s over-confidence of winning 2024 elections | Arun Srivastava
• Sabyasachi research warning: protect your voter well in advance | Faraz Ahmad
• National Research Foundation gets Parliament’s nod | P. S. Jayaramu
• Ongoing violence in Manipur a major public health problem | Statement IDPD, Aug 18, 2023
• AIKS Demands Parliamentary Probe Forces Behind Corporatisation of Indian agriculture | Aug 18, 2023
• Why Karl Marx’s ideas are still important? | Sabzar Ahmad Bhat
• Afghanistan: UN human rights experts denounce idea of “reformed” Taliban | Statement, Aug 14, 2023
• The Taliban’s war on women in Afghanistan must be formally recognized as gender apartheid | Vrinda Narain
• How Women’s Federations Balance Feminism and Party Discourse in China | Junyi Cai

BOOKS:

• Why Nature Turned Furious on Kedarnath Region? | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Carol Winkler Review of The Taliban’s Virtual Emirate by Neil Krishan Aggarwal

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Cartoon: When Tomatoes Became Super Expensive. . . | Hemant Morparia
• Cartoon: Many Faces of Climate Change | Rohan Chakravarty
• A photo from AIDWA convention in Delhi - Aug 17, 2023
• Photo: Bertolt Brecht testifying before House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 1947 | Leonard McCombe
• Audio: A Certain Justice (1997) by PD James BBC Radio Drama

Editor’s Picks:

• Caste For The ’Casteless’: Unsettling Truths
• Preventive detention: A loss of right within the fundamental rights
• Does imposition of Hindi constitute an offence against unity and integrity of nation?
• Gujarat Vidyapith: At Mahatma Gandhi’s school, girls stopped from performing Sarva Dharm Prarthana
• Meira Paibis may be part of problem, not solution
• Who Gains and Who Loses? A Report From Manipur
• Shyam Benegal Interview: You Cant Think of India Without Nehru
• Confronting the dangers of ultra-processed food
• Indonesian Schoolgirls Testify on Mandatory Hijab and Bullying

* (Coverpage artwork credits: Lucette Laribe - Les cireurs de chaussures (1955))