Table of Contents Mainstream - Lockdown Edition no.22 | Aug 22, 2020

Table of Contents - Mainstream, VOL LVIII No 36, New Delhi, August 22, 2020

• Letter to the Readers - Mainstream, August 22, 2020 | The Editor
• Congress, Hindutva and Indian Nationalism | Barun Das Gupta
• Disregarding Ravi Chopra’s Recommendations on the Chardham Project Will Destroy the Fragile Ecology of the Himalayan Region | Surabhi Agarwal, Lubna Sarwath and Sandeep Pandey
• Racism: An Entrenched System | Suranjita Ray
• Dalit Politics Needs a New Radical Direction | S. R. Darapuri
• In my own voice: Azaadi | Sagari Chabra
• Freedom day in Amritsar (From Mainstream Archives, 1996) | Nikhil Chakravartty available here-> http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article8658.html
• The Congress is Modi’s Big Advantage | TJS George
• Abrogation Of Article 370 Came at a High Cost | Zulafqar Ahmed
• RSS steadily moving towards the creation of Hindu Rashtra | Arun Srivastava
• PM Modi, Take-up the concerns of subalterns instead of co-opting Buddha for political gain | Badre Alam Khan
• Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute is under a ruinous state | Nityananda Ghosh
• Bangladesh: Janata Bank scandal and Prothom Alo’s tendentious journalism - A different look | Subhash Kumar Sengupta
• Kamala Harris and India | Faraz Ahmad
• Revolution or Exile - A Reply To A Letter To The Maoists | Murzban jal
• Nadya Krupskaya: the Russian revolutionary | Vashna Jagarnath
• Lebanon: Clearing the Rubble | Loubna El Amine
• Open Letter of Solidarity and Protest Against Homophobic Repression in Poland
• Book Review: Chitranshul Sinha’s The Great Repression | Jannat
• Book Review: Robben on Hinton, ’The Justice Facade: Trials of Transition in Cambodia’
• Self | A.K. Das
• Video: Close-Up (Nema-ye Nazdik) - a film by Abbas Kiarostami (1990)
• Video: Sita Sings the Blues - An Animation film by Nina Paley
• Document: Full Text of Statement by Prashant Bhushan before Justice Arun Mishra’s Supreme Court of India bench on August 20, 2020
• Document: Public Statement from Lawyers Regarding the Supreme Court Ruling in Prashant Bhushan Contempt of Court Case | Aug 17 2020
• Document: Condemnation of attempt by UP Government to suppress Right to Freedom of Expression - Press Release by Socialist Party, India | August 17, 2020
• Document: The worsening crisis in handlooms and handicrafts sector - Press Release by National Federation for Handlooms and Handicrafts (NFFH) | August 19, 2020
• Document: CPI Reiterates Demand to Make PM CARES Fund Transparent

Artwork credits: Emilio Pettoruti (1892–1971) was an Argentine painter, who caused a scandal with his avant-garde cubist exhibition in 1924 in Buenos Aires.This work is called ’In Flight II’