Table of Contents, Mainstream, Dec 18 / Dec 25, 2021 (double issue)

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Dec 18/Dec 25, 2021
• Too Many VIP Deaths. Something Amiss? | TJS George
• Studying Rammohun Roy and Karl Marx together and today | Pradip Baksi
• What Ails the Institutions of Higher Learning in Kerala? | Chathukulam and Joseph
• Decoding the 2021 Karnataka Legislative Council election results | P S Jayaramu
• Kashi Points Road to Theocracy, Not Secularism | SN Sahu
• Afghanistan in days of Saur Revolution & its Immediate Aftermath | Sumit Chakravartty
• Is The RSS Stronger or Weaker After 100 Years? | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
• Silent Over Attacks on Christians, While Marketing Sabka Saath | Humra Quraishi
• Bangladesh 1971: Two Million Lives Could Have Been Saved | Bharat Dogra
• Letter To Kanhaiya Kumar | Murzban Jal
• Reading the World of Commerce | Arup Kumar Sen
• Repeal UAPA, Sedition Law & AFSPA | Statement on Human rights Day 2021
• AIFUCTO Statement on Punjab teachers Strike for UGC Pay Scales | Dec 17, 2021
• Cartoon: Discovery of Ind | Jayaraj Vellur
• Photo: P. Ramamurti leading a strike in Madurai in the 1960s
• Book Review: When Nationalists Backed ‘Made in India’ | M R Narayan Swamy
• Book Review: Kritskiy on Glaser, Lee, (eds.) Comintern Aesthetics
• China’s BRI crown jewel joins the era of defiance and dissent | James M. Dorsey
• Hong Kong crackdown over Tiananmen memorial in 2020 continues
• Left in France Loses its Bearings Fighting COVID restrictions | Philippe Marlière
• Music: Nobel Peace Prize Concert (2014) - Amjad Ali Khan and others
• Photo: Hand of Great Leader - Beijing (2003) | Bogdan Konopka
• Film: Pirosmani (1969) directed by Giorgi Shengelaia

+++Editor’s Pick:+++
Raw Material: UNHCR’s Individual Case Files as a Historical Source, 1951–75 by Peter Gatrell in: History Workshop Journal, Volume 92, Autumn 2021
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(Cover page artwork credits: Raoul Dufy - Le Tennis Textile, 1919)