Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, June 18, June 25, 2022

 

Now Is The Time To Say Goodbye | T J S George

 

Jammu and Kashmir: ‘Muscular Policy’ or Policy Paralysis | M A Sofi

 

Naga National Assembly: Foreboding of a cold Peace | Kumar Sanjay Singh

 

A Spark May Lead to Fire: Could India go the Sri Lanka way? | Radhakanta Barik

 

Urgency to Undo Bulldozer Injustice | Faraz Ahmad

 

Siddaramaiah’s Brand of Politics in Karnataka | P S Jayaramu

 

BJP’s “Image” & Nupur Sharma’s Comments! | Nilofar Suhrawardy

 

A Well-Deserved Recognition for India’s ASHAs | J Chathukulam, M Joseph

 

if The Shudras Do Not Rebel, Hindu Rastra Will Form] | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd

 

GST Council – Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water | Sarma & Sunder

 

India Must Ratify the Amendment to Basel Convention | Gopal Krishna

 

DOCUMENTS:

 

Support free speech; condemn hate speech, death threats | IMSD, June 13, 2022

 

United Christian Forum Alarmed at the Rise in Violence Against Churches

 

No Democracy Without Free Speech Former State Officials

BOOKS:

Review: From Harsh Childhood to Top Politicians | M.R. Narayan Swamy

 

Book Excerpt: Kalapani Crossings | Bharadwaj & Misrahi-Barak

Russian Civilisationism as Alibi in the War on Ukraine | Musaib Rasool

 

On the Dispute between China and Taiwan | Sheel Bhadra Kumar

 

Gramsci’s Political Imagination | Arup Kumar Sen

 

Inside a reintegration camp for Colombia’s ex-guerrilla fighters | Gomez & Hart

 

Photo of Artists Ram Kumar, MF Husain, Tyeb Mehta & his wife Sakina Mehta

 

1898 Botanical Illustration: Spring Flowers by Adolphe Philippe Millot\

 

Music: Mandingo Ambassadors N’Diagno | Tougna (2012)

 

Editor’s Picks:

 

Police Linked to Hacking Campaign to Frame Indian Activists by Andy Greenberg

 

The farm laws struggle 2020–2021: class-caste alliances and bypassed agrarian transition in neoliberal India by Jens Lerche

Avoiding ocean mass extinction from climate warming by Justin L. Penn and Curtis Deutsch