Table of Contents, Mainstream, Aug 7, 2021

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, August 7, 2021
• The Significance of a Shadow Cabinet | Anil Nauriya
• Covid-19 and the Persisting Socioeconomic Crisis in India | Arun Kumar
• A status quo-ist ministry takes shape in Karnataka | P S Jayaramu
• PMs May Come, PMs May Go, But Modiji... | TJS George
• Book Review: Devaki Jain on Amartya Sen’s Memoirs
• Athlete Ila Mitra missed the 1940 Olympics, but became a peasant leader | Sohini Chattopadhyay
• Prashānt Mamatā as Rājdharma | Pradip Baksi
• Mamata Banerjee into the Vedanta trap | Sankar Ray
• Pandemic and the State: a Political Economy perspective | Banhi Baran Ghosh
• The Lord Macaulay’s Minute, 1835 & British Educational Policy | Ajit Mondal
• Intimations of Stupidity | Avay Shukla
• Ruthless times & Some Unusual People | Humra Quraishi
• An Enigma Called Gorky | M R Narayan Swamy
• Was Guru Dutt a Marxist? | Radhakanta Barik
• Increasing Threat From Nuclear Weapons | Bharat Dogra
• Painting: Cranes and Ships, Glasgow Docks, 1947, L.S. Lowry
• Author Salman Rushdie doubtful of a better world emerging from COVID-19?
• Music: Prince Igor - Polovtsian Dances | A. Borodin

DOCUMENTS:

• Prevent Govt takeover of Gandhian Institutions - Statement by concerned citizens
• First-year completion of NEP - Statement by All India Federation of University and College Teachers’ Organisation - Aug 2, 2021
• ABC Regulation 2021, a push towards Blended Learning Mode, will lead to dilution of degrees | DUTA Press Release, July 29, 2021