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Akeel Bilgrami on identity, inner life and stereotyping
Interview with Akeel Bilgrami. Published : Jan 28, 2022 06:00 IST Jipson John Jitheesh P.M. COMMents 0 SHARE READ LATER Akeel Bilgrami. Akeel Bilgrami is an Indian philosopher of international eminence and influence. He graduated from Elphinstone College, University of Bombay, in 1970 and went to the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Thereafter, he moved…
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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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Siddharth Mallavarapu 16 hours ago Ta-Nehisi Coates in his new book, ‘The Message’, would like us to believe that stories can offer us serious redemption in these unsettling times. 5 min read Illustration: Pariplab Chakraborty Ta-Nehisi Coates in his new book of essays, The Message, offers us an eloquent defence of why writing matters most as a political…
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