Table of Contents - Mainstream, Feb 4, 2023

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Feb 4, 2023
• Union Budget 2023-24 Fails to Live up to Expectations of People | Bharat Dogra
• Union Budget 2023-2024: Reading the fine print | P. S. Jayaramu
• Challenges and Policy Options for Budget 2023-24 | Sarma & Sunder
• Remembering VKRV Rao | KN Ninan
• In Defence of Student Politics | Soumodip Sinha
• Happiness In its Living Social Context | Kobad Ghandy
• Is The BBC Documentary: Much Ado About Nothing? | Papri Sri Raman
• Fasting Himalayan activist draws scorn from insensitive Modi Govt | K Raveendran
• Lessons unlearned from India’s online schooling emergency | Dipanjan Chakraborty
• In Memorium Shanti Bhushan (1925-2023) | Aurobindo Ghosh
• As Morning Light Glows in the Eastern Sky | Lakshmi Rameshwar Rao
• From the Commander of Knowledge | Mohammad Talib
• Vietnam’s social insurance dilemma | Tu Phuong Nguyen
• Closure of Moscow Helsinki Group another blow to human rights and civic space in Russia | OHCHR

DOCUMENTS:

• Letter to Minister, Electronics & Info. Technology | Editors Guild
• Probe The Adani Deals | CPI
• AITUC Press Release on the Union Budget 2023-24
• Samyukt Kisan Morcha - Press Statement on Union Budget 2023
• 2023 Union Budget is a Disappointment - Socialist Party (India)

BOOKS:

• Watson on Seow’s Carbon Technocracy

IMAGE & SOUND:

• A Group Photo of Progressive Writers in Bombay, 1946
• A Drawing | Sagari Chhabra
• The Composer John Cage about silence
• Music: Michel Camilo & Tito Puente - Festival Int’l de Jazz de Montreal

Editor’s Picks:

• Budget 2023 Has Chilling Implications for India’s People
• Union Budget 2023-24: What middle class expects from finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman
• S.P.K. Gupta Was Witness to a Bygone Era of Journalism
• Tribute to Balkrishna Doshi, Modernist Indian Architect
• Adani Group: Fortune of Asia’s richest man hit by fraud claims
• British higher education is being destroyed
• Review of Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China

* (Cover Page Artwork Credits: Josef Albers - Structural Constellation, n.d.)