Table of Contents - Mainstream, Jan 2, 2021

Table of Contents, Mainstream, January 2, 2021

• Letter to the Readers - Mainstream, Jan 2, 2021
• How Much of a Democracy is India, Really? | P B Sawant
• Governorship Is Boring - Power Matters | TJS George
• Twenty 20, A Dangerous Trend from Kerala | Sukumaran C V
• Far from liberating farmers, farm laws put them at the mercy of government | Jean Drèze
• The Kashmir valley rejects PM Narendra Modi’s ’Gram Swaraj’ | Bharat Bhushan
• COVID blurred the lines between waged, coerced & trafficked labour in India | Subir Sinha
• US Presidential Elections: Abki Baar Biden Sarkar | K N Ninan
• What Happened in the American Elections? | Archishman Raju
• Federalism As A Lynchpin Of Democracy Lesson From The U.S. Election | Vijay Kumar
• Rethinking the Role of Local Govts in a Post Covid 19 World | Asha Buch, V Rekha and Jithin Mathew
• Refugee Crisis; Pierre Cardin passes on | Humra Quraishi
• Rethinking the Role of Intellectuals | Arup Kumar Sen
• The Shudra Civilization | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
• Appropriating Tagore as a Hindu Nationalist: Modi’s Address to Visva-Bharati | Aurobindo Ghose
• On Ravindranath Tagore’s Concept of The Nation/State | Suresh Khairnar
• Lessons of 2020 Serve as 2021 Manifesto for the Indian Christian Community
• Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society | Chaokang Tai, Bart van der Steen, Jeroen van Dongen
• Crossing into New Year | AK Das
• Visuals: Peace - a Lithograph by Chittoprasad
• Video: The United Nations at 75 with Noeleen Heyzer
• Video: Feminism for all (2017)
• Video: Waltz Of The Eyes by Stavros Lantsias
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• From the Archives: Today’s Imperative by Nikhil Chakravartty (Mainstream, September 7, 1980) http://mainstreamweekly.net/article8509.html
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(* Cover Page Artwork Credits: Georgia O’Keefe, Untitled (Abstraction Green Line and Red Circle) - 1979)