Table of Contents, Mainstream, May 29, 2021

In This issue

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, May 29, 2021
• After the Supercyclone | Barun Das Gupta
• Interpreting the Narada Bribery Case | Arup Kumar Sen
• India’s Self-Inflicted Catastrophe | TJS George
• Review NPR-NRC: Disruptive, expensive, impractical, illogical | SG Vombatkere
• Is National Government the way out to deal with Covid-19? | PS Jayaramu
• The Biden Administration: What Kind of Multilateralism is in Store? | MJ Vinod
• India should reassess dependency on QUAD | Mani Shankar Aiyar
• India’s Engagement with QUAD | Santosh Kumar
• Bangladesh Left Bloc Wants Withdrawal of Case Against Journalist | Sankar Ray
• Netanyahu and Hamas Are Playing a Deadly Game | Hillel Schenker
• Return of the Military Memoir | Andrew Plowman
• On Force Landing of Jet & Illegal Arrest of Belarusian Journalist | RG Gidadhubli
• Understanding of Rural Society via Villages of Cuttack | Radha Kanta Barik
• Supreme Court’ Intervention is Cri De Coeur of Hour | Vijay Kumar
• Bengal is witnessing a class war between centrists & rightists | Arun Srivastava
• Tribute: Dinesh Mohan, Rajkumar Keswani & Sunderlal Bahuguna | Bharat Dogra
• Saving Mother Teresa. . . | Sujit Chakraborty
• Fear of the cops / Identity politics / Simple things | Humra Quraishi
• Initiate Formation of a National Govt - CFD’s Letter to the President of India
• Press Release by All India Trade Union Congress - May 26, 2021
• Ensure food security | Statement by Right to Food Campaign - May 23, 2021
• Covid 19 Management and Scientific Temper | Ram Puniyani
• Indigenous Culture In Lakshadweep Under Threat | Ratheesh Kaliyadan
• Book Review: How Britain Exploited Indian Coolies in WWI | MR Narayan Swamy
• Book Review: African Soldiers Remember the Great War | Melvin E. Page
• Book Review: Pattanaik on International Migration by Khalid Koser
• Shav-Vahini Ganga (Ganga Carrier of Corpses) | Parul Khakhar
• Rajinder Puri Cartoon the day after Jawaharlal Nehru died in 1964
• Photo: Asian Comintern - Ten Malaka, MN Roy, Ho Chi Minh (1922, Moscow)
• Photo: Football players also joined May 1968 uprising in France
• Music Suited to Party Line - Shostakovich paid a price | Harsh Kapoor
• Video: Amitav Ghosh Talks of Cyclones, Climate Change | (May 26, 2021)
• Video: The Spiritual in Nehru’s Secular Imagination | Madhavan K Palat

* (Cover Page Artwork Credits: Joan Miro Self Portrait II in 1938)