Table of Contents Mainstream - Lockdown Edition no.16 | July 11, 2020

Contents - Mainstream, VOL LVIII No 30, New Delhi, July 11, 2020:

• LETTER TO THE READERS - Mainstream’s, COVID 19 Lockdown Edition No.16 | July 11, 2020

• Statement on China by Veterans of the Indian Armed Forces To Heads of Government and Top Military Brass | July 2, 2020

• DOCUMENT: While administrative approvals can be expedited, But processes of vaccine development cannot be, without compromising scientific standards - Press Release by Indian Academy of Sciences | 5 July 2020

• DOCUMENT: Move to Communalise CBSE Syllabus - Press release by the Communist Party of India | July 8, 2020

• DOCUMENT: An Official Report From India’s Ministry of Earth Sciences: Assessment of Climate Change over the Indian Region

• Video: Listen To Her - Nandita Das’s Short Film on Domestic Violence | 2020

• Poster 1890s in the UK: Vote for Dadabhai Naoroji - The socialist who stood up for women’s suffrage and workers rights

• An Unrelenting Covid-19 Irritates Capitalism No End | Badri Raina

• Trivialisation of death: With dignity gone, Covid has reduced it to a statistical abstraction | Avijit Pathak

• Putting all eggs in the same basket: Crisis of Non-Covid Health in Rural India during Covid -19 Pandemic | Atanu Sengupta, and Asish Kumar Pal

• A Letter to Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Chairman, Executive Board, World Health Organization | Anil Chamadia

• Giving Marx to our leaders | T J S George

• Revisiting the concepts of Panopticon and Synopticon: An inquiry into naturalisation of totalitarian surveillance in the name of covid19 pandemic | Gopal Krishna

• Devoid of morality Indian media crawling before rulers | Arun Srivastava

• Alarming Increase in Lightning Deaths in Bihar | Bharat Dogra

• Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian lands are under greater threat in Brazil during COVID-19 | Elielson Pereira da Silva, Diana Cordoba

• Rogue States Sanction the International Criminal Court | Richard Falk

• Russia’s Amendments to The Constitution - Official Version Vs Opposition Response | R.G.Gidadhbli

• The development of Trotsky’s analysis of the Soviet bureaucracy | Thomas M. Twiss

• Akhil Gogoi: A peasant leader jailed for supporting the poor and oppressed | Atul and Sandeep Pandey

• What’s Become of My Uttar Pradesh! | Humra Quraishi

• The NHRC’s report on Jamia Violence has relied on the Dominant Narrative of Delhi Police and ignored the Victim’s Point of Views | Badre Alam Khan

*Cover artwork by Keith Haring, Nov. 8 1988 (Election Day), 1988