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The politics of reading
Black Panthers in a reading circle, (Photo: Pirkle Jones) The politics of reading Originally published: Simplifying Socialism on June 12, 2026 by A. J. Horn (more by Simplifying Socialism) (Posted Jun 15, 2026) Culture, Human Rights, Ideology, LiteratureGlobalNewswire The act of reading is so much more than following text with your eyes or—if you prefer audiobooks—with your ears. Done properly, reading…
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03/11/2024 Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd was disinvited from ‘Hortus’ Arts and Literary Festival hosted by Malayala Manorama in Kozhikode Kerala from November 1-3. Kancha Ilaiah alleges that this was due to an article he wrote in the Telugu daily Sakshi on the ongoing genocide in Gaza. The festival organisers had conveyed to him that there was…
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by Bernard D’Mello (Sep 01, 2024) Topics: History Imperialism Political Economy Places: Asia India President Biden and Prime Minister Modi of India before the 2023 G20 Summit. Twitter, Public Domain, Link. Bernard D’Mello is the author of India after Naxalbari: Unfinished History (Monthly Review Press, 2018) and a journalist associated from the 1980s with the Economic and Political Weekly and Frontier. He lives in Mumbai. Narendra Modi, the Bharatiya Janata…
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The continuing interest in the Zinoviev Letter, a century after its publication, is illustrative of how the defeated look for someone to blame, often with destructive results.Grigory Zinoviev (1883-1936), Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet Communist politician, after his arrest by the Okhrana in 1908. Credit: Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo In the past month…
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The market forces of supply and demand applied to Ancient Rome as much as anywhere. But two essential goals of the Roman state complicated matters: the capital’s need for grain, and for a well-fed army.A print illustrating a street scene somewhere in the Roman Empire. Credit: Lebrecht Music & Arts / Alamy Stock Photo It…
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Raju Z Moray·November 3, 2024 AT the Bombay High Court in Mumbai, the appellate-side Bar association is known as the ‘Advocates Association of Western India’ (AAWI). Members occupy two huge halls on the ground and first floors of the heritage building. These are commonly known as ‘athra number’ (18) and ‘chhaatis number’ (36) respectively. As one discovers in…
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