Table of Contents, Mainstream, May 1, 2021

• Table of Contents, Mainstream, May 1, 2021
• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, May 1, 2021
• Do We Need a Separate National Policy for Migrant Workers? | Kingshuk Sarkar
• Vaccination Sidesteps Most Vulnerable Migrant Labour | Harihar Swarup
• Chamoli and Climate Change | SG Vombatkere
• Post-American Afghanistan through looking glass | MK Bhadrakumar

* LDF and Kerala elections 2021 | P Radhakrishnan
* Assam Assembly Election 2021: on the Verge of a Political Quandary | Nurul Hassan
* Bengal Assembly Elections 2021: Political violence may rise after results | T K Basu

• What is the Issue, COVID or Democracy? | TJS George
• Corporate India in Mirror of the Pandemic | Prem Singh
• We Need More Hospitals, Not Temples or Mosques | Ramakant & Pandey
• DOC: Covid 19 crises & Govt’s Policies -Statement by National Trade Unions
• DOC: Covid-19 Second wave - Letter to the Prime Minister by CPI(M) Gen Sec
• DOC: Centre Must Ensure Enough Oxygen and Free Supply of Vaccine: CPI
• DOC: Letter from Disillusioned Employees of Times Now | April 25, 2021
• The Covid Moment and the Civilisational Crisis | Manoranjan Mohanty
• Self-Introspection and Reforms Could Strengthen Left Forces | Bharat Dogra
• Covid: Glimpses of Indian Political Scene Amid Mayhem | Pramod Ranjan
• ICDS Workers in a Circle of Fire | Pal & Sengupta
• Covid Crisis | Sagari Chhabra
• Suggestions on Masking & Home care for people with mild COVID-19
• Caste in India: ’Blind’ Recruitment in Civil Service is No Fix | Sircar & Rajahmani
• Reforms In Civil Services | Nisha Mishra
• Is Social Transformation Possible, Without ’Annihilation of Caste’? | Badre Alam
• Revisiting B R Ambedkar through the feminist discourse | Arpita Giri
• A Peep Into ‘Hindu’ Narratives of Bengal History! | Shamsul Islam
• Prisoners During the Pandemic| Humra Quraishi
• Book Review: Maddox on Roses from Kenya by Megan Styles
• Poem: The Never-ending First of May | Charles Magde
• Cartoon: Twitter removes posts on Govt orders | Jayaraj Vellur
• Artwork: AITUC Zindabad | Chittoprasad
• The Coup in Chile | Ralph Miliband (1973)
• Photo: Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera, Artists Union - 1929 May Day March, Mexico
• Video: How the COVID19 pandemic is changing globalization | DW Documentary
• Video: Death in the Haymarket - May Day & Labour | James Green (& Howard Zinn)
• Film: The Kid by Charlie Chaplin (1921)

* (Coverpage Artwork: Unnamed artist - Photo of a fragment from a bigger Hand-Embroidered Pachisi Board Game in India)