Table of Contents, Mainstream, Sept 4, 2021

In this issue:

• Letter to the readers, Mainstream, September 4, 2021
• A Plea for Liberal Education | Avijit Pathak
• J.P. Naik and The Art of The Educational Revolution | Murzban Jal
• Pandemic, Knowledge and Society | Banhi Baran Ghosh
• Why I Am Not Jealous of Ambani | T J S George
• Shudra Kings and brahmins: A mirror image of history | Kancha Illiah Shepard
• Socialism and the Human Individual In Marx’s Work | Paresh Chattopadhyay
• Migrant Labour and the Pandemic: Domination and Resistance | Arup Kumar Sen
• Impact of Covid 19 Lockdown Measures on Rag Pickers of Surat | Vimal Trivedi
• Book Review: A Gripping Autopsy of Japan | M R Narayan Swamy
• 20 years After 9/11, Many Questions Remain Unanswered | Bharat Dogra
• The Unemployed Epidemiologist Who Predicted the Pandemic | Eamon Whalen
• Afghanistan, the great game of smashing countries | John Pilger
• ME - a poem on casteism & prejudice | Jeevesh Gupta
• Cartoon: They cannot erase Nehru’s legacy | V R Ragesh
• Photo: Aruna Asaf Ali with Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to fly in space
• Music: Maria Farantouri - Mikis Theodorakis 1974 concert at the fall of the military dictatorship in Greece
• Video: Leasing Out Assets Worst Option, Kaushik Basu Tells NDTV
• Documentary Film: Bosnia’s invisible children

Documents:

• Rights of the incarcerated in South Asia - Resolution SAPAN Meeting, Aug 29, 2021
• Include women in the upcoming governance entity in Afghanistan - UN Women Statement, Aug 31, 2021

* (Coverpage Artwork Credits: Velocidad No. 2, 1954. by Loló Soldevilla)