Table of Contents - Mainstream, Dec 3, Dec 10 2022

in this issue:

• Letter to the readers, Mainstream, Dec 3, Dec 10, 2022
• BJP Wins Gujarat But Loses Himachal Pradesh! | Nilofar Suhrawardy
• Gandhi in Gujarat meeting Bacha Khan fate in his homeland | Faraz Ahmad
• Poverty, Inequality has risen in the Modi Years | K N Ninan
• The Bali Summit and India’s G20 Presidency | P S Jayaramu
• Deconstructing the Contemporary Paradigm of BJP Politics | Arup Kumar Sen
• Misplaced Claims of India Being the Mother of Democracy | S N Sahu
• Big promises but corruption flourishes in Punjab | Amit Kumar
• The Right to Offend | Santhosh Mathew and Anita Elizabeth Mathew
• Communalism Everywhere | Humra Quraishi
• Managerial Universities | Bhabani Shankar Nayak
• Strengthening the Congress with new ideas & vigour | Arun Srivastava
• Bharat Jodo Yatra (BJY): An apolitical perspective | Nayakara Veeresha
• Reflections on Events in Afghanistan — 41 | M K Bhadrakumar
• Somalia’s Long Journey from Prosperity to Hunger | Bharat Dogra
• Orban uses soccer to project Greater Hungary & racism | James M. Dorsey
• Albert Einstein on God, in his letter to Erik Gutkind (1954)

DOCUMENTS:

• Concern over Death Penalty for protestors in Iran | IDPD
• Court restores PIL on regulatory failures causing biodiversity losses | ESG

BOOKS:

• Review: Raghavan on ’New threats to human security in the Anthropocene’
• Book Review: Raza on Kenny’s Populism and Patronage

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Photo: Plantation workers British Guyana in 1880
• East German Stamp for the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck
• Documentary: How salt and sand could replace lithium batteries
• Video: P Sainath’s lecture on India in the Age of Inequality

Editor’s Picks:

• The importance of a press club
• What ’teaching a lesson’ in Gujarat means
• The Indian Coal Mine That Razed a Village and Shrank a Forest
• Putting the ‘Public’ back into the Republic
• When Hitler purged India Nobel laureate’s paintings
• At Protests Across, America, Guns are Doing the Talking
• Science is making it possible to ‘hear’ nature

* (Coverpage artwork credits: H Kapoor, untitled Nov 2022)