Table of Contents Mainstream - Lockdown Edition no.18 | July 25, 2020

Table of Contents - Mainstream, VOL LVIII No 32, New Delhi, July 25, 2020

• Letter to the Readers Mainstream, Covid-19 Lockdown Edition no.18 -July 25 | The Editor
• When the State Fears a Poet | Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla
• June 25 1975/July 25 2020: Reflections on a Prison in Delhi | Uma Chakravarti
• Pandemic puts India in ‘precarious position’ | M. K. Bhadrakumar
• Covid Redefines the State | D.K. Giri
• Why 2020 is not 1962 | Praveen Davar
• DOCUMENT: Memo to Election Commission of India from Political Parties
• DOCUMENT: Open Letter to Chief Minister, Odisha on the outbreak of Covid cases in Berhampur Jail | Jan Adhikar Manch 22 July 2020
• Politics as War on the People | Arup Kumar Sen
• Punjab’s Yearning For A Different Path of Development | Bharat Dogra and Jagmohan Singh
• India’s Trade-relationship with China: The New Imperialism | B P Mathur
• Glorifying Murders and Murderers | Barun Das Gupta
• Degrowth and the emerging mosaic of alternatives | Corinna Burkhart, Nina Treu, Matthias Schmelzer
• Memo to the left: Winning votes is not ‘selling out’ | Loris Caruso
• Khrushchev’s Speech at the 20th Party Congress of the CPSU: How a secret document got into American newspapers | Artyom Dobrovolsky
• Theja Gunawardana – a leading pioneer in Sri Lanka’s left movement | Kalyananda Tiranagama
• Are extremists exploiting the pandemic? | Saleem Samad
• Book Review: Conlon on Kidambi and Kamat and Dwyer, ’Bombay Before Mumbai: Essays in Honour of Jim Masselos’
• Photo of Shapurji Saklatwala who was elected as a Communist MP in the British Parliament in 1927
• Audio: Story of Soviet dissidents who stood up against Red Army’s invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968
• Video: Ek Aur Anek Ekta - A 1974 animation film by Vijaya Mulay | Films Division, 1974
• John Lewis, the Good Trouble Man | Badri Raina
• MASK! | A.K. Das

* Artwork Credits: Sonia Delaunay, the celebrated Ukrainian-born Russian abstract artist who was key part of the Parisian Avant Garde