Table of Contents - Mainstream, VOL 60 No 52, Dec 17, 2022

In this issue:

• Census: What’s the delay? - Guest Editorial | Faraz Ahmad
• Tribute to Gita Ramaswamy | Anand Chakravarti
• Decline of Government Schools in Haryana | SS Sangwan
• Protest over Vizhinjam Port Project in Kerala | Moolakkattu & Chathukulam
• Questions from Top Court over GM crops | Bharat Dogra
• Results of 2022 Assembly Elections in Gujarat & Himachal | P Jayaramu
• How Democracy Works in India | Arup Kumar Sen
• 1992 demolition of Babri Masjid a blow to the Idea of India | Humra Quraishi
• Savarkar and Ambedkar - Two opposite Poles | Ram Punyani
• Crony Capitalism System Perfected | Sandeep Pandey
• Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir and the ‘Balance of Fear’ | S.G.Vombatkere
• Pakistan: Imran Aslam, A veteran journalist bows out | Beena Sarwar
• Good Strikes, Bad Strikes & ways of British Prime Minister| Bhabani Shankar
• Nobel Peace Prize: Russian laureate ’told to turn down award’ - BBC
• IRGAC Volume on Global Authoritarianism - Perspectives from the South
• How the brain tunes in to unfamiliar voices during sleep | Jakke Tamminen

DOCUMENTS:

• Concerned Scientists Open Statement on Bar Gene in GM Mustard

BOOKS:

• Book Review: Mapping India’s Sufi World | Narayan Swamy
• Book review - Borders Are Not Real | G Narasimha Raghavan

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Photo: Jawaharlal Nehru with V.K. Krishna Menon & Indira Gandhi in London
• Caricature Tribute to Dominique Lapierre | Jayaraj Vellur
• Video: Environmental History Roundtable - Nature and the New Right
• Film: Soy Cuba | Mikhail Kalatozov (1964)

Editor’s Picks

• ’Deficient Public Healthcare and Rising Wealth Inequality Hurting India’s Poor’
• Why is Collegium under Attack - Justice AP Shah explains
• Bhopal disaster’s perpetrators used ‘dummy’ firms to keep biz on
• Absence of persons with impeccable integrity at the helm is the bane of India’s democracy
• Why Is Israel Groveling to India’s Toxic Hindu Nationalists?
• Women of Iran - Heroes of the Year 2022

* (Coverpage artwork Credits: Marc Chagall - Composition with circles and goat (1920) )