Table of Contents - Mainstream, Sept 23, 2023

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, September 23, 2023
• How Long the Soap Opera Over Tribal Museum? | Amarendra Kishore
• On International Year of Millets | Geeta Sinha
• ICAR Tie-up with Bayer & Amazon Could Harm Indian Agriculture | Soma Marla
• Food Banks as a Means of Reducing Hunger | Bharat Dogra
• “Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam” Mother of All Jumlas!? | Sukla Sen
• A Little Credit When Due: Gandhi, Nehru Envisioned More Elected Women Leaders | S.N. Sahu
• Distress Migration: Trapped in Brick Kilns | S N Tripathy
• Reflections on Identity of Odisha | Radhakanta Barik
• Trajectory of Panchayati Raj from rural local democracy to women’s representation | Narain Dutt
• Dark world of rape culture in India | Badre Afshan
• CPI(M) moving in a blind alley in Bengal | Arun Srivastava
• Withdraw the order reducing cut off for NEET PG Percentile to Zero - IDPD
• Canada and the LTTE | M R Narayan Swamy
• Trust us: how India takes control of personal data | Pradip Thomas
• Peasants trade union demands the opening of Indo-Pak trade
• Why I am an Atheist | Bhagat Singh
• Anxiety & stress can be lowered through colouring | Mantzios & Giannou

BOOKS:

• Review of Monica Liu’s Seeking Western Men

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Photo: Crowd Welcomes Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi In Magnitagorsk. U.S.S.R
• Film Still: Elena in Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s Memories of Underdevelopment (1968)
• Video: Mahua Moitra’s intervention in the Lok Sabha on the Women’s Reservation Bill (September 2023)
• Music: Chet Baker at Théâtre de la Ville, Paris (1981)
• Movie: The Stranger (1946) Orson Welles

Editor’s Picks:

• Where has India’s record wheat and rice output gone?
• 42% unemployment rate among young graduates major challenge in India
• Desist from recklessness, muscular display
• Gita Mehta, Whose Writing Shaped Perspectives of India, Dies at 80
• Why Hindu nationalists are freaking out over a California anti-discrimination bill
• Iran hijab bill: Women face 10 years in jail for ’inappropriate’ dress
• The Twisted Eye in the Sky Over Buenos Aires
• The Mexican Question
• Brazil supreme court rules in favor of Indigenous land rights in historic win
• Theory of consciousness branded ’pseudoscience’ by neuroscientists
• The masters of greenwashing

* (Coverpage Artwork Credits: Fernand Leger - Constructeurs avec aloes (1951))