Table of Contents, Mainstream, Aug 20, 2022

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, August 20, 2022
• Ambedkar Would be Shocked At His Name Being Taken Alongside Savarkar | SN Sahu
• Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai’s one year in office | P S Jayaramu
• Bihar Politics: Tejashwi’s Trump Card? | Nilofar Suhrawardy
• What Nitish needs to break Modi’s bluster| Faraz Ahmad
• Diamond Jubilee or Rusted Freedom? (Part I) | Kobad Ghandy
• Droupadi Murmu - Will she make for a People’s President? | A K Biswas
• August Revolution and India’s ruling class | Prem Singh
• India’s 75th independence by Playing Gandhi’s Ram Dhun Across Bhubaneswar | S N Sahu
• A new low of Indian media | Narender Nagarwal
• Adverse Impact of Big Business on Farms Revived in Himachal | Bharat Dogra
• Modi on the mission to dissipate his opponents | Arun Srivastava
• How disastrous yellow journalism is | Sukumaran C.V.
• Stalinism, Maoism And The Question of The Messianic Revolution | Murzban Jal
• Sectarianism and Vanguardism: Debating a Problem on the Left | Anarchist Federation of Rio de Janeiro

DOCUMENTS:

• PUCL Statement the remission of the sentence of 11 convicts in Bilkis Bano case
• 6000 citizens stand in support of Bilkis Bano’s struggle for justice
• Disturbed by some rulings of India’s Top Court - International statement

• Book Review: British Savagery in Delhi After 1857 | M R Narayan Swamy
• Review of Gareth Leng, Rhodri Ivor Leng, The Matter of Facts | Jessica R. Avery
• Photo: Satyajit Ray and Marlon Brando in Delhi, 1967
• Interactive Map: International Arms Sales - Sellers and Buyers - with SIPRI data
• Video: 75 Years of Independence - Irfan Habib, Romila Thapar & Harbans Mukhia
• Music: Peaux by Trio Xenakis

Editor’s Picks:

• My witch trial in Kolkata by Anonymous
• US court orders big pharmacy chains to bear partial responsibility for the deadly drug crisis
• Blood substitute repairs damaged organs hours after the heart stops by Clare Wilson
• Climate change: Why we can’t rely on regrowing coastal habitats to offset carbon emissions by Phil Williamson, Jean-Pierre Gattuso
• Jaw workout: Chewing can increase your body’s energy use by up to 15 per cent

* (Cover Page Artwork Credits: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti - A Tumultuous Assembly (Une Assemblée tumultueuse. Sensibilité numérique) published in Les mots en liberté futuristes 1919 )