Table of Contents, Mainstream, Oct 2, 2021

In this issue

• Letter to Readers, Mainstream, Oct 2, 2021
• In Memory of Kamla Bhasin: Sept 24, 2021 | John Dayal
• Lessons To Learn From Ayodhya | TJS George
• Gandhi’s Legacy Can Still Bring Hope & Healing to A Violent World] | Bharat Dogra
• Gandhi, Gandhians and Labour: The Bengal Scenario, 1920–47 | Nirban Basu
• How UBI can make a difference to workers lives | Sandeep Kaur, Nandlal Mishra
• We are 99% | BB Ghosh
• Indo - US relations in perspective | P S Jayaramu
• CNDP Statement on AUKUS and Quad
• US/UK nuclear subs. for Australia escalate an arms race - Joint statement by IPPNW
• Leadership Change in Punjab: Some Reflections | Prem Singh
• Why Modi did not mention Afghanistan/Taliban in his UN address? | Faraz Ahmad
• Asset Monetisation as Instrument for creation of Greenfield Assets | Atul Sarma & Shyam Sunder
• From Archives: The mid-1970s investigation into secret US research projects in India | Chakravarthi Raghavan
• As Gandhi Jayanti nears, violence seems overtaking all spheres | Humra Quraishi
• Rise of centre-left in Germany | M K Bhadrakumar
• My father was brutally killed by the Taliban | Muska Najibullah
• Afghanistan highlights link between religious soft power and Gulf security | James M. Dorsey
• Questions About New U.S. Plant Engineering | Martha Rosenberg
• Book Review: Delhi Police - Search of an Image | Twinkle Siwach
• Book Review: Patriotism is not Blind Nationalism | M R Narayan Swamy
• Cartoon: 74 years of Indian Democracy
• Photo of certificate for natives in British India with permission to sit in the presence of British officials
• Video: Online Schooling Survey Shows Shocking Disparity for Under Privileged Kids in India
• Taliban Rule in Afghanistan - A conversation with Ahmed Rashid (Sept 29, 2021)

* (Cover Page Artwork credits: Rabindranath Tagore - Women in the courtyard, 1929-30)