Table of Contents - Mainstream, Feb 18, 2023

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Feb 18, 2023
• Rise and Fall of a ‘Growth King’ | Arup Kumar Sen
• On the Legacies of Jawaharlal Nehru and Narendra Deva | Anil Nauriya
• Paresh Chattopadhyay and his time | Pradip Baksi
• ‘The war is a plot’ - Conspiracies, detachment & confusion in Russia | Anna Matveeva
• One Year of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine | Narayan Swamy
• Continuity of Ukraine War: Diplomatic Lapse! | Nilofar Suhrawardy
• Budget 2023-24: In Pursuit of Growth but stressful for Farmers | S S Sangwan
• Low Budgets, Inequalities Impede Educational Progress | Bharat Dogra
• Alert students amid spineless vice-chancellors | Avijit Pathak
• Case of Institutional Violence in SAARC University | Sandeep Pandey
• Wellbeing of Universities Relies on the Vice Chancellors | S K Saidapur
• What do Gubernatorial appointments in the Northeast foretell? | Kumar Sanjay Singh
• Rainbow Coalition in Coop Society Elections in W Bengal | Gireesan & Kumar Paul
• Black days ahead if coal city does not change | Shatabdi Das
• CPIML calls for a broad coalition to fight BJP, RSS | Arun Srivastava
• Mother Tongue & Wider Culture | Humra Quraishi
• Tribute to Zia Moyeddin | Beena Sarwar
• A Flower Blooms | Lakshmi Rameshwar Rao

DOCUMENTS:

• Raid on BBC offices in India - Statements by the Editor’s Guild, CPI(M), CPI
• Blows to NREGA - Press Release by NSM (Feb 16, 2022)

BOOKS:

• Book Review: McVeigh on Pesic’s ’Sounding Bodies’

IMAGE AND SOUND:

• Caricature Tribute to Carlos Saura | Jayaraj Vellur
• Painting: End of Shift (1956) | John Wood
• Video: Former CIA Agent John Stockwell Talks about How the CIA Worked in Vietnam
• Short film: The Bread and Alley - Abbas Kiarostami (1970)

* (Coverpage artwork credits: WORK (1971) by Yoo Youngkuk)