Table of Contents Mainstream - Lockdown Edition No.2 | April 4

Contents - Mainstream, VOL LVIII No 16 New Delhi, April 4, 2020

• LETTER TO THE READERS - COVID 19 Lockdown Edition No.2
• COVID 19 Crisis : Letters From Senior Former State Official to India’s Finance Minister and to the Prime Minister
• The Editors Guild of India is deeply perturbed over the recent government statement before the Supreme Court
• PUDR demands temporary decongestion of jails in view of COVID-19 public health crisis
• Bypassing PMNRF & Setting Up A New Fund Unnecessary- Statement by CPM Polit Bureau on PM CARES
• Taliban gets Khalilzad leg before wicket but won’t appeal | M K Bhadrakumar
• Professor Arjun Dev, The Historian of ‘Contemporary World’ | Pritish Acharya
• COVID 19 Lockdown, Fleeing Masses, Rohingya Refugees of Delhi| Humra Quraishi
• India Needs Return of Five-Year Plans | Bharat Dogra
• What is Chandrasekhar’s politics? | SR Darapuri
• We beseech Your Lordship ! Sardar Amjad Ali
• Gandhi - Tagore Debate | Ashok Celly
• COVID-19: UN chief calls for global ceasefire to focus on ‘the true fight of our lives’
• Coronavirus and Migrant Workers | Arup Kumar Sen
• The race to find a coronavirus treatment has one major obstacle: big pharma | Ara Darzi
• An Impudent molecule that paralyses the world | Badri Raina
• Covid 19 Pandemic: What about those not hitting headlines | Arun Kumar
• Need for Replacing The Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 by a Statute Constitutionally Protected | Gautam Sen
• Lockdown: Meaning and Meaninglessness of FM’s Package | Sudipta Bhattacharyya

* Cover Artwork: HK