Table of Contents Mainstream - COVID 19 Lockdown Edition No. 1 | March 28

Contents - Mainstream, VOL LVIII No 15 New Delhi March 28, 2020

• LETTER TO THE READERS - COVID 19 Lockdown Edition No.1

• India’s lockdown will invite perils for its people | Arun Srivastava

• Socialist Party (India) Demands Immediate Action from the Government to Ensure Social Security for the Common People of the Country During the Lockdown

• Public Statement on COVID19 Crisis released by People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism (PADS) (20 March, 2020)

• Urgent suggestions to GOI with regard to support to farmers, their livelihoods as well as to ensure uninterrupted food supply chains

• PM’s financial package of Rs 15,000 crore for healthcare is very little - CPI Press Release

• Behind Delhi riots lies politically-designed, socially-embedded trajectory of Discipline-Hate-Punishment | Hem Borker

• Covid-19: Modi, Putin to coordinate efforts | by M K Bhadrakumar

• Europe’s leaders must protect free flow of information to tackle COVID-19: IPI joins with press freedom partners in call to EU leaders

• Mother of all impunity from terrorism charges | Mustafa Khan

• Signs of the times| Humra Quraishi

• Shivaji Maharaj and his layered and contested memory | Anirudh Deshpande

• Subversion of the Judiciary in Recent Times | Arup Kumar Sen

• When Muslim Women Became My Saviour | Sandeep Pandey

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