Table of Contents - Mainstream, Oct 15, 2022

In the Issue:

• Letter to the readers, Mainstream, Oct 15, 2022
• West Bengal: Skirmishes at Mominpur | Upal Chakraborty
• Challenges Before the Left — Internationally & India | Kobad Ghandy
• Brewing Trouble Between the Governor & Left Govt. in Kerala | J Chathukulam
• Saibaba release suspended while convicted murderer at large | Faraz Ahmad
• Mohalla Clinics ’Health Fix’ in Neoliberal times | Priyanka Yadav
• Can the Bharat Jodo Yatra spur democratic governance? | Vikash Narain Rai
• Apologising to Bilkis Bano | Sandeep Pandey
• Insurance subsidies drive Hysterectomies | Debnath, Paul & Sareen
• Pensions for elderly in India | Bharat Dogra
• Implications of Netaji’s statue at India Gate | Prem Singh
• Gandhi’s Life and Struggle: Impact of Jesus Christ | Ram Puniyani
• Feminist Mutiny in Iran and Implications for India | Gouri Sankar Nag
• Sitting the trippers | Engel & Cowan
  DOCUMENTS:
• SC Ruling on Abortion - Statement by AIDWA
• EC Move to Amend Model Code of Conduct - Statement by CPI
• CPI(M) General Secretary’s letter to the Election Commission on Proposed Changes to the Model Code of Conduct
• Demise of jailed Kashmiri leader Altaf Shah - PIPFPD Statement
  BOOKS:
• Review: Can India’s public universities be remodelled? | Jayaramu
• A Discourse on Authoritarian Populism
• Nehru to Najibullah: A Journalist’s Story | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  IMAGE & SOUND:
• Caricature - Tribute to Kodiyeri Balakrishnan | Jayaraj Vellur
• Music: Saint-Saëns - Le Carnaval des Animaux, R. 125 - 12. Fossiles
• Photo: Andréi Tarkovsky during the filming of ’Stalker’ (1979)
• Video: Stories My Country Told Me - Eqbal Ahmad

Editor’s Picks:

• CPI’s national meet to focus on ‘bringing like-minded forces’
• Kerala’s teacher whose hand was cut off by Islamists | BBC
• Iran’s Women’s Protests Continue to Grow Amid Brutal Crackdown
• Five things to know about China’s Communist Party Congress
• ‘A Ukraine soldier on fighting his father on Russian side

* (Coverpage Artwork Credits: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff - Head (Kopf) from the periodical Genius. Zeitschrift für werdende und alte Kunst, vol. 1, no. 1 1919 | Woodcut executed in 1915)