Table of Contents - Mainstream, Sept 30, 2023

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Sept 30, 2023
• Health must be fast-tracked for 2030 | K. Srinath Reddy
• Will Modi fight the next general elections over the threat of Khalistan? | Faraz Ahmad
• Mahatma Gandhi Lives On Beyond Institutions | D M Diwakar
• Implement Swaminathan Commission recommendations to Honour M S Swaminathan | Soma Marla
• Letter to the Prime Minister over non-payment of salaries of workers who built the Chandrayaan LaunchPad | Binoy Viswam
• On the Mode of Governance in India | Arup Kumar Sen
• One Nation, One Election: No Solution to Ailments of Present Electoral System | D Raja
• INDIA Alliance is yet to become an ideological alliance | Gopal Krishna
• In Need of Immediate Actions: Tracing the New Poor and their Vulnerability | Chattopadhyay & Pratim Sahu
• New Report Exposes Grave Injustice to Villagers in the Name of Expanding Tourism and Parks in Tanzania | Bharat Dogra
• Anarchism in Germany 1945-1960s | Nick Heath

DOCUMENTS:

• The Hype Over the G-20 Summit - Statement by Radical Socialist
• Concerned Citizen’s Statement Over Hateful Slurs by MP Ramesh Bidhuri
• Clamour for Teachers Grows in Jharkhand

BOOKS:

• How the English Built India – Brick by Brick I M R Narayan Swamy
• Review of K Saradamoni’s ’In Search of Answers: A Memoir’ I B Madhavan

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Caricature Tribute to M S Swaminathan | Jayaraj Vellur
• Lithograph: The new General Hospital & grounds, Calcutta by W. Wood (1829)
• Music Video: ’Three Days in Delhi’ | Suhaas Ahuja Band
• Video: What is work? Keywords by Jacob Mukherjee - W for work

Editor’s Picks:

• Why India won’t see women’s reservation in effect until 2039—it’s about trickery
• The curious case of H.G. Reynolds alias Capt. Haroon Rashid Ghazi
• The Naming and Shaming of TV Anchors
• When the Moon Gets Caught in the Barbed Wire Over the Prison Wall
• ’Inside the vast digital campaign by Hindu nationalists to inflame India
• Pakistan: At least 50 killed, dozens injured in Mastung blast
• The Base of the Labor Pyramid
• Betty Friedan and the Movement that Outgrew Her
• Forty years ago, class defined us in Britain. Now it’s we who define our class
• Women, power, and cancer: a Lancet Commission
• Scientists get closer to solving the mystery of antimatter

* (Coverpage Artwork Credits: Sol LeWitt - Lines and Colours (1977) )