Table of Contents, Mainstream, July 23, 2022

In this issue:

• Rubber stamp or no, Murmu scores big for Adivasis | John Dayal
• 50 years of Stockholm: From Environment to Sustainability | Swapan Kumar Sil
• Subverting Forest Rights Act 2006 To help Big corporations | Soma Marla
• Why is the World Food Situation More and More Precarious? | Bharat Dogra
• Post-Gotabaya: Is Lanka confused? | Apratim Mukarji

DOCUMENTS:

• Statement by Bar Ass’n of Sri Lanka on the Declaration of the State of Emergency
• Press Release by Margaret Alva - candidate for the post of Vice President of India
• Roll-back these GST Hikes | Press Statement by CPI(M) July 20, 2022
• Statement of the Chhattisgarh Bachao Andolan on the recent Supreme Court judgment in the case of the Gompad Massacre of 2009

• When Accused Become Innocent & Innocent Are Made Accused | Sandeep Pandey
• Contractual soldiers: The natural outcome of neoliberal reforms | Prem Singh
• Impact of Migration to the Gulf in an Odisha Village | Radhakanta Barik
• The Panchayat Raj Plant In A Barren Soil | Farooq Ahmad Bakloo
• Book review: IFS Officer Recalls Charms, Challenges | M R Narayan Swamy
• Book Review: Dreeze on Revising the Revolution by Larry E. Holmes
• China’s diplomatic gambit in Pacific Island states | Sheel Bhadra Kumar
• Will Landmark UN decision on safety & health affect employees? | Huw Thomas
• Ukraine uses Russian invasion to pass anti-worker laws | T Rowley, S Guz
• Caricature Tribute to Singer Bhupender Singh | Jayaraj Vellur
• Newspaper front page of 3 May 1974 on national railway strike in India
• A Film Still from Satyajit Ray’s 1963 film Mahanagar
• Audio: A letter to Ukraine from Sarajevo | Aida Cerkez
• Music: La Negra Graciana - Graciana Silva Garcia

Editors Pick:

• Tunnel vision that is endangering India’s history
• Sadhguru, the spiritual leader with ties to Will Smith and Modi, explained
• The Laboratory of Scientific Racism: India and the Origins of Anthropology
• Send us a man to do your job so we can sack you, Taliban tell female officials

* (Cover page artwork credits: Untitled Drawing by Georgio Morandi (1953))