Table of Contents - Mainstream, Aug 26 & Sept 2, 2023

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Aug 26 & Sept 2, 2023
• An Anatomy of Research | Arup Maharatna
• Revisiting Nehru’s Larger Vision on Space Exploration as India Lands Chandryan III on the Moon | S N Sahu
• Nuh Violence and its Aftermath | Arup Kumar Sen
• The Environmental Holocaust In India | Kobad Ghandy
• Unveiling the Dark Side of the Belt and Road Initiative | Rodrigues, Areesh Kumar
• On Appointment of VCs in Karnataka | P. S. Jayaramu
• How India can counter religion in politics | Rahul Mukherji
• The bogey of BJP’s new constituency: Pasmanda and Muslim women | Faraz Ahmad
• Partition: 14 August 1947 | Sagari Chhabra
• Message from a Pakistani: Well Done Neighbour | Naeem Sadiq
• Pakistani minority-rights activists demand justice after church attacks | Zahid with Sarwar
• Graphic Resource: An expanded BRICS to have more than half of world’s fossil fuels
• Russia: Letter From Prison by Boris Kagarlitsky
• Art and Socialism | William Morris

DOCUMENTS:

• Statement on the Rejection of Police Permission for We20 Peoples’ Summit in New Delhi
• Stop Repression of People’s Protest Over Mining Leases Near Niyamgiri to Adani, Vedanta Press Release by All India Kisan Mazdoor Sabha
• Kashmirwala Website Blocking & de-activation of social media | EGI Statement
• National trade Unions stand up for PSU communications & engineering workers who made India’s space programme possible

BOOKS:

• An Irish legend Indians will always adore and respect | M R Narayan Swamy
• Review: Switala on A Social Ecology of Capital by Eric Pineault

IMAGE & SOUND:

• 1913 Photo of Indian Origin Workers in The Construction of the Panama Canal
• Music: Des Ordures Partout | Michel Duprez
• Animation Film: The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse | Evelyn Lambart

Editor’s Picks:

• Annotated Comparison of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Bill, 2023 and Indian Penal Code, 1860
• Made In Heaven: A show taking on all that’s wrong with Indian weddings
• Indian police stop a conference of activists and academics discussing G20 issues ahead of summit
• Rohini Hensman Interviews Kavita Krishnan on Issues That Matter to the Indian Left
• Science, geography, and nation: the global creation of Thumba
• Key Findings of 12 CAG Reports on Corruption Modi Government
• Digging deeper: German academics and universities under Nazi tyranny
• Hundreds of migrants killed by Saudi border guards - report
• ‘It’s all top-down’ — activists hammer BRICS on human rights and environment

* (Coverpage artwork credits: Untitled4, Arshile Gorky (1941))