Table of Contents, Mainstream, Jan 7, 2023

In this issue:

• Letter to the readers, Mainstream, January 7, 2023
• Awards Drama in Maharashtra | Kobad Ghandy
• Anjali Singh’s death, not a simple hit & run accident case | Faraz Ahmad
• Mobilisation and right to the city | Prachy Hooda
• Rammohan Roy on 250th Birth Anniversary | Jayanta Kumar Ghosal
• Mahatma Gandhi’s Vow of Fearlessness Getting Reflected in Rahul Gandhi’s Appeal to People to Shed Fear | S N Sahu
• Recent Pandemic Debates, Careful Review of All Evidence Needed | Bharat Dogra
• Understanding Bollywood Boycotts | Ahmed Raza
• Private Universities: Where do India’s intellectuals stand | Prem Singh
• Launch of a Digital Currency by India’s Central Bank | Kunango & Kunango
• India’s fumbled chance for sharing knowledge | Arunachalam & Madhan
• The Tree’s Gift | Sagari Chhabra
• Mysterious missing pages of Babarnama | Sankar Ray
• Why LTTE Can Never Be Revived | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• India’s got the BRICS blues | M K Bhadrakumar
• Excerpt from ’The Right to the City’ by Henri Lefebvre (1968)

DOCUMENTS:

• Torture & detention of labour rights activist in Haryana | PUDR Press Release
• Press Release by NREGA Sangharsh Morcha (Dec 26, 2022)
• PB Communiqué from CPI(M) (28 Dec 2023)
• Celebrate Com. Geeta Mukherjee | Letter from CPI Gen Sec.

BOOKS:

• Review: Thakuria on Marriott’s edited volume, India through Hindu Categories
• Review: Steiner on Anctil’s ’Luminous Creatures

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Photo: Bicycle Kick by the Football legend Pele
• Caricature Tribute to Pele | Jayaraj Vellur
• Cartoon on the Proposed Film City in UP | Alok
• Music: Loulou Gasté "Il n’a pas très bon caractère" (1943)
• Audio: John Majewski Lecture - Living Democracy in Capitalism’s Shadow (on the Struggle to End Slavery)

Editor’s Picks:

• After foreign fund curbs, Modi gov’t squeezes domestic fundraisers of NGOs
• Justice B V Nagarathna is Upholding the Spirit of the Constitution
• Cough syrup deaths: India’s drug regulator must stop treating public health crises as public relations problems
• Ukrainian Voices?
• Revisiting the Playground
• FFRF disappointed in Jan. 6 Capitol attack report’s Christian nationalist omissions
• How divisive is Israel’s shift to the right?

* (Coverpage artwork credits: H Kapoor, Untitled, Dec 2022)