Table of Contents - Mainstream, Nov 5, 2022

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream November 5, 2022
• Ela Bhatt no more – AITUC sends its condolences [Nov 2, 2022]
• Why Say No To Indian govt Approval to GM Mustard | Soma Marla
• Governance to stifle hate | Vikash Narain Rai
• RSS, BJP caught in a bind over the Bharat Jodo Yatra | Arun Srivastava
• Freebies & public policy imperatives | Amrendu Kumar Singh
• Life in peril / world of Gemini Ganesan | Humra Quraishi
• Struggles for democracy in Southasia raised at 4th Asma Jahangir Conference | Abdullah Zahid with Beena Sarwar
• Bio-Weapons will Increase the Risks of On-Going World Crisis | Bharat Dogra
• Far right: The significance of an umbrella concept | Andrea L P Pirro
• Lula never left Brazil’s centre stage | M K Bhadrakumar

DOCUMENTS:

• All India Kisan Sabha on GM Mustard - Press Release Oct 31, 2022
• Police Searches at Homes of Editors of The Wire - DIGIPUB Statement
• Police Searches at Editor’s homes is diproportianate | Editors Guild
• Letter to Chief Election Commissioner by Gujarat President of Socialist Party (India) [Nov 2, 2022]
• CPI Demands Withdrawal of Case Filed against Annie Raja

BOOKS:

• Deepti Mehrotra on Neethi P. & Anant Kamath’s ’Urban Undesirables’
• Hiner on Keiser’s ’Nervous Fictions’

IMAGE AND SOUND:

• Photo: Ernö Vadas - Factory, Budapest, Hungary (1955)
• Music: Wes Montgomery - Here’s That Rainy Day - Live London 1965

Editors’s Picks:

• Who owns a woman’s labour? In Bombay HC order, a troubling answer
• Statement by Solidarity Committee for the struggle against the Adani Seaport building at Vizhinjam
• The growing complexities of a working woman’s life
• Imran Khan shot at Gujranwala rally, out of danger
• Spain’s new citizenship law for Franco exiles offers hope in Latin America
• Text of Victory Speech by Lula da Silva the President-Elect of Brazil
• Significance of Lula’s victory for the world

* (Coverpage artwork credits: The Blue Sun, 1946 by Robert Motherwell)