Table of Contents - Mainstream, Oct 17, 2020 | Lockdown Edition no. 30

Table of Contents - Mainstream, VOL LVIII No 44, New Delhi, October 17, 2020

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Oct. 17
• Unconditional Apology | Sumit Chakravartty and AK Biswas
• The importance of SAARC | Eduardo Faleiro
• How a Tragedy Gave Birth to the Legacy of M N Srinivas | Jos Chathukulam and Manasi Joseph
• Maharashtra Governor Koshyari Mocks at the Secular Spirit of the Constitution | Satya Sahu
• If Hathras Doesn’t Make Us Think Again, Then Nothing Will | Avay Shukla
• Stan Swami - The Man who loves his Brother | John Dayal
• Combating Identity Politics Through Class Consolidation | Vijay Kumar
• Bihar Assembly Elections Likely to Throw a New Social Alliance | Arun Srivastava
• The Tanishq Ad. Controversy: Women are Objectified by Communal Extremists | Bhumika Rajdev
• Registration of Press And Periodicals Bill, 2019 Has Provisions To Curb Press Freedom | Jwalika Balaji
• Document: Statement by participants of the Mahila Ekta Yatra regarding the charge sheet filed by Delhi Police in FIR 59/2020
• Document: AITUC condemns Government decision to demerge Nagarnar Steel Plant from NMDC and then to sell it - Press Release, Oct. 16, 2020
• Film Review: Shakuntala Devi – A Problematic Portrayal That Barely Touches Upon Her Genius | Soumya Mishra
• Book Review: Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism’ by Theodor W Adorno | Gustavo Racy
• The United Nations at 75 | Santosh Mathew
• Need for Democratization of the UN System | Rup Narayan Das
• Fake promises, Hiked Train Fares, Memories of Begum Akhtar, Pran Nevile | Humra Quraishi
• Residents Associations (RWAS) and COVID 19 | Ashok Kumar Sahay, Namrata Handique
• In Michigan, homegrown terrorists offer a taste of civil war in America | Roberto Zanini
• China trying to fix its past — insists Genghis Khan exhibit not use words ’Genghis Khan’ | The Guardian
• Audio: Contested histories - a discussion on Sudhir Hazareesingh’s biography of Toussaint Louverture - Black Spartacus | BBC4
• Video: Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps (1942)

* (Cover Page Artwork Credits: Varvara Stepanova two figures (1920). Varvara Stepanova was a Russian artist associated with the Constructivist movement.)