Table of Contents - Mainstream, Feb 11, 2023

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Feb 11, 2023
• India 75 Years of Republic - Rise of Sectarian Nationalism | Ram Puniyani
• After Modi who? | Faraz Ahmad
• Pathan the blockbuster movie fuels jingoism | Jawed Naqvi
• Dark Clouds Mar Sri Lanka’s Independence Day | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Union Budget 2023-24 & its Underlying Strategy | Arun Kumar
• How Significant Cuts Were Made in Allocations of Crucial Ministries and Departments Last Year | Bharat Dogra
• Budget 2023-24: Continuity with Change | Sarma and Sunder
• Film Review: Diving into the Lifeworld of the Refugees | Raj Kumar Thakur
• Subjective Morality and the Murder of a Young Women | Chetna Trivedi
• Revisiting Increasing Inequalities | Suranjita Ray
• Big data and big dollars are changing cricket | Rushikesh Gawade
• Remembering Martin Luther King’s trip to India | Archishman Raju
• Tribute: Nachiketa Desai (1951-2023) | Sagari Chhabra
• Intimate Authoritarianism: The Ideology of Abuse | Lee Shevek

DOCUMENTS:

• Statement on New Detention Centre in Assam | Campaign Against Detention / R2NC
• AITUC deplores the unconstitutional activities by the Govt Depts
• Murder of Journalist - Statement from Bombay Press Club
• Arrest Killers Of Journalist Shashikant Warishe | Statement BUJ

BOOKS:

• Social justice warriors affecting the change | Joydip Ghosal
• Review: State Absence as Presence: Service Delivery in Postcolonial Nigeria | Ruth Carlitz

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Caricature Tribute to Vani Jairam | Jayaraj Vellur
• Film Still from Aparajito directed by Satyajit Ray (1956)
• Music: Burt Bacharach - Trains And Boats And Planes (1965)
• Video: Bjorn Borg vs John McEnroe - The 1980 tie-break at Wimbledon

* (Cover Page Artwork Credits: Johannes Molzahn - Opus XXX (1921) )