Table of Contents, Mainstream, Sept 10, 2022

In this Issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Sept 10, 2022
• Lanka: as Gotabaya returns… | Apratim Mukarji
• Democracy – Beyond the Reform versus Revolution Binary | Aditya Nigam
• To Rahul Gandhi with Love from Kanyakumari | S. P. Udayakumaran
• Will Bharat Jodo Yatra Turns Into A Mass Contact Campaign | Arun Srivastava
• Kartavya Path: Forget about your rights | Faraz Ahmad
• Swarna Aayog Movement & Upper Caste Mobilise in Himachal | Rohit Kumar
• Gandhi’s Satyagraha and Untouchability | Anshu Srivastava
• Against all Orthodoxies | Bhabani Shankar Nayak
• Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: A Woman of Several Hues | Bendre & Mistry
• India’s literacy programs have fallen short | Vachaspati Shukla

DOCUMENTS:

• Tax Raids on think-tank, NGO, & media funder | Press release by digipub
• Floods in Pakistan - Letter to Asian Cricket bodies

BOOKS:

• Release of a study on collective farming by women farmers in Kerala
• Book review: Karunanidhi’s Rise and Rise — And Fall | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Book Review: ’The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects’

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• A Viral View | Fayezah Iqbal
• Cartoon: Rajpath Renamed - will they Rename Statues Now | Jayaraj Vellur
• Photo: Man on Street reading the French Communist Newspaper | Louis Stettner
• Video: The need for scientific temper | Narendra Nayak
• Audio: Amid Tributes to Queen Elizabeth, Deadly Legacy of British Colonialism
• Wobbly & anarchist labour organizer Joe Hill’s song “The Preacher & the Slave"

Editor’s Picks:

• The poison within
• I believe we’ve been told devastating lies about mental health
• A Conversation With Freny Manecksha
• Muslim domestic workers in India changing names out of fear
• India’s top independent TV anchor battles on – but for how long?
• Modi’s ’Kartavyapath’ is a Road Paved With Bad Intentions
• Unprecedented Case Brought Against Myanmar Junta in Indonesia

* (Cover page art work: Jean Cocteau theme orphique Mai 1960)