Table of Contents, Mainstream, April 9, 2022

In this Issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 9, 2022
• Learn From The Decline Of Sri Lanka | TJS George
• Economic Collapse in Sri Lanka | Devaka Gunawardena, Ahilan Kadirgamar
• Sri Lanka: On Economic Crisis & Public Protests | Liyanage Amarakeerthi
• Historic Judgement by the Supreme Court of Pakistan in Defence of Democracy and Constitution] | S N Sahu
• Pakistan: Will Imran Playing Victim of a Foreign Conspiracy Work? | Mahendra Ved
• Remarks by UN Sec. Gen to the Security Council on Ukraine on 5 April
• Confronting war, rethinking sanctions | Thomas Piketty
• Why states lie during war times? | Garima Mani Tripathi
• Interrogating the Ghost of Party Politics | Arup Kumar Sen
• The Task Is Cut Out For The CPI-M at Its 23rd Congress | P. Sreekumaran
• Is Leadership Change Possible in BSP? | S R Darapuri
• Savarkar as a diehard Casteist: Evidence from Hindutva archives | Shamsul Islam
• Chandigarh-dispute: Please handle with care | Prem Singh
• BJP’s Electoral Ascendancy: Politics of Populism | Nayakara Veeresha
• My 50 Years as an Independent Writer | Bharat Dogra
• Review of Brockmann, Sophie, The Science of Useful Nature in Central America
• Cartoon: Ever-expanding definition of an anti-national | Hemant Morparia
• Illustration: Imaginary book for prisoner Navlaka in Taloja jail | Orijit Sen
• Video: John Bellamy Foster - The Return of Nature
• Music: Veryovka Ukrainian Folk Choir

Editor’s Picks:

• Antarctic ice shelves are shattering. How fast will seas rise? by Alejandra Borunda
• Peru’s prime minister cites Hitler as a model, stirring outrage by Samantha Schmidt

* (Cover page artwork credits: H Kapoor )