Table of Contents - Mainstream, Oct 7, 2023

In this issue:

• Letter to the readers, Mainstream, October 7, 2013
• Social and Economic Aspects of Caste Survey in Bihar | Arun Kumar
• Aspects of 2nd Labour Commission Are Still Very Relevant | Bharat Dogra
• Democratising Governance, Expanding Political Autonomy | C.R Bijoy
• Communal Harmony the Foundation of Indian Nationalism | Ram Puniyani
• India’s quest for Permanent seat at the UN Security Council | P S Jayaramu
• India-Canada Diplomatic Tension & Electoral Politics! | Nilofar Suhrawardy
• The Khalistan Question: An Interview with Pritam Singh (2020)
• What Makes Social Change Successful? An Examination of Black Politics in the US | Yanis Iqbal
• Death of the Armenian Dream in Nagorno-Karabakh | Ronald Suny
• The Death of Ivan Nikitich Smirnov | Victor Serge (1936)

DOCUMENTS:

• I.N.D.I.A Statement on Oct 3 Newsclick raids
• Journalist’s Unions Condemn Police Raids on Homes of Journalists
• AIDWA Condemns Raids on Journalists, writers, and Human Rights Activists
• Statement from National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD) Over Police Raids on the NewsClick
• AIFRTE condemns the Delhi Police raid at the residence of Dipak Dholakia

BOOKS:

• Review of Kirkwood’s, Endless Intervals: Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900

IMAGE & SOUND:

• India Sliding Down in World Press Freedom Index During Modi Years
• Photo: Man selling Granma newspapers, Havana (1995) by Ernesto Bazan
• Baroque Music from La Serenissima’s album, An Englishman Abroad
• Video: Weaponising the Media, Delegitimizing Citizens | Ravish Kumar
• India: A secure government job at any cost

Editors’s Picks:

• BJP’s Gandhi Dilemma
• 18 press bodies write to chief justice on India’s shrinking media freedom
• Video: It is a terrible time to do watchdog journalism in India
• India is weaponising FATF recommendations against civil society
• Afghan Women Speak Out on Life Two Years After the Taliban Takeover
• 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for Narges Mohammadi, Jailed Iranian Activist
• Pat Arrowsmith obituary
• Agribusiness vs. smallholder communities in the Brazilian Cerrado
• Swedish politics poisoned by US-style culture wars
• How to keep your microbiome healthy as you age

* (Coverpage Artwork Credits: Lygia Pape, Tecelar, 1958 )