Table of Contents - Mainstream, Jan 21 & Jan 28, 2023

In this issue;

• Letter to the readers, Mainstream, Jan 21 & Jan 28, 2023
• Salvaging Gandhi and Ambedkar’s Vision of the Republic | S N Sahu
• The Republic of the Constitution and Modi’s India | D Raja
• Will the BBC serial and Hindenburg disclosure affect Modi’s G20 profile? | Faraz Ahmad
• Power, Corruption & Abuse in Indian Sports | Kobad Ghandy
• Basic Structure has saved the Constitution and Democracy | Vijay Kumar
• Kerala: Hegemony of the Left-front & the Peoples Plan | Chathukulam & Joseph
• Kaun Banega Crorepati pushing a retrograde mindset | Radhakanta Barik
• How riots formed Kolkata’s ghettos | Samaddar & Bandyopadhyay
• Digital gaming market and rising health crisis | Geeta Sinha
• Modi Govt’s Big Hydrogen Programme Poses Many Crucial Questions | Prabir Purkayastha
• Promise and Pitfalls of Budget Analysis | Bharat Dogra
• Footprints of Militant Hindu Nationalism | Arup Kumar Sen
• Woes of Sugarcane Economics: The Way Out? | Sher Singh Sangwan
• A remembrance meet on Madhu Dandavate | Jeevesh Gupta
• Resurrection of Higher education: Musings of a Concerned Indian | S. K. Saidapur
• Netanyahu’s new far-right government threatens Israeli democracy | Boaz Atzili

DOCUMENTS:

• Don’t Stop Supply of Food Grains to Poor - CPI
• Editors Guild of India concerned over takedown rules on ’Fake’ news

BOOKS:

• The Rafale Deal: A Chit on Our Conscience | Papri Sri Raman
• Review: Sainath’s The Last Heroes | K S Subramanian
• Valour and Distress in India-Pakistan Wars | M.R. Narayan Swamy

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Video: US biotech behind Covid origins and cover-up | Jeffrey Sachs
• Our History, Their History or Whose History? | Lecture by Prof Romila Thapar
• Video: India - The Modi Question: Part 1 (BBC 2 documentary)

Editor’s Picks:

• Tamil Nadu governor is lighting fires the BJP cannot control
• Joshimath disaster a warning for Mussoorie
• Inside India’s Cram City
• The Carbon Con
• Fossil Fuel Groups ‘Spent Millions’ on Social Media Ads Spreading Climate Disinformation During COP27

* (Cover Page Artwork Credits: Geraldo de Barros - Estudos (1980))