Table of Contents - Mainstream, Sept 9, 2023

In this issue

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, September 9, 2023
• My Vision of India: 2047 (25th D S Borker Lecture) | Justice AP Shah
• As laws expand their reach, political freedoms shrink | Anushka Singh
• Court Handbook: A Step for a Gender Just Society | Thakur & Arha
• Promote communal harmony - Letter to Chief Minister of Haryana | Binoy Viswam
• Security, integrity secondary to BJP’s communal considerations in J&K and Manipur | Faraz Ahmad
• Modi acts on directions and desires of RSS chief | Arun Srivastava
• Common School System & Quest for Equitable Education | Jain, Sengar and Pandey
• These Farmers Have Big Hopes from Natural Farming | Bharat Dogra
• Tribute to Akshay Dutta - the Bengali rationalist | Jayanta Kumar Ghosal
• The outstanding story of women’s cricket in Pakistan | Noor e Emaan
• The Utopia | Eduardo Galeano
• Einstein got it – philosophy & science do go hand in hand | Kenan Malik
• Guns for Hire? A Season for Mercenaries | Thalif Deen
• How folk remedies can fuel misinformation | Donois & Vally

DOCUMENTS:

• Jabalpur Declaration from the 18th national conference of the Progressive Writers’ Association
• EGI Statement on FIRs registered by the Manipur Police against the Guild
• Editors’s Guild of India Report on Media’s Reportage of the Ethnic Violence in Manipur
• State of relief camps in conflict-marked Manipur - IDPD Press Release

BOOKS:

• Book Excerpt: Transition Town Movement by T. Vijayendra, Usha Rao & Shreekumar
• Checkmating China’s Rise and Rise | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Review of Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam | Francis R. Bradley

SOUND & IMAGE:

• Caricature: Tribute to Cartoonist Ajit Ninan | Jayaraj Vellur
• Cartoon: India’s 2015 Relief Operations for Nepal | Ajit Ninan & Jug Suriya
• Photo: The Mother’s Hand (1966) by Antanas Sutkus
• Music: Fight the Real Enemy - War by Sinead O’Connor
• Video: Press Conference on Memorandum to ECI on Free & Fair Elections (Hindi & English)
• Audio: Lucas Chancel on Climate Inequalities, Pollution Levels

Editor’s Picks:

• Ideology that killed Mahatma Gandhi behind Gauri Lankesh, M M Kalburgi murders
• Narendra Modi’s New New Delhi
• The current talk of decolonisation is about an exclusionary political agenda
• How Scientists Meghnad Saha, J.V. Narlikar Rubbished Claim of Vedic Roots of Modern Science
• BJP’s Control of Cricket in India
• Are natural disasters man-made?
• Heat records topple across sweltering Asia
• A Cooler Future Means a World With Less Pavement
• The Iraqi YouTube star killed by her father
• Survivor of South Africa Fire Describes a Harrowing Escape
• In Romania, corruption and incompetence is costing lives
• China wants to ban clothes that ’hurt nation’s feelings’

* (Coverpage Artwork Credits: Victor Brauner - Inclusion morphogène (1960) )