Ernst Thälmann was born in Hamburg, Germany, on 16th April, 1886. His friend, Wilhelm Pieck, later recalled: “As the son of a class-conscious worker organised in the Social-Democratic Party, Ernst Thälmann came into the Socialist movement in his early youth. He was hardly sixteen years old when he joined the Social-Democratic Party. The indigent circumstances of a proletarian…

Elif Shafak on the Relentless Real-World Spread of Orwellian Dystopia By Elif Shafak June 24, 2024 There is Orwell the human being. There is Orwell the novelist. There is Orwell the intellectual, the critic, the journalist, the essayist, the radical. But lately, George Orwell—who was born Eric Arthur Blair and who never fully abandoned his original name—has…

His order granting bail to Manish Sisodia has been hailed as landmark ruling. A look at life & career of BR Gavai, who will be 2nd Dalit, after KG Balakrishnan, to hold top judicial post. Bhadra Sinha 17 August, 2024 09:45 am IST 1 New Delhi: In 2001, B.R. Gavai was invited by the Bombay High…

What the country has lost since I moved here in 2007. Yascha Mounk Aug 01, 2024 A few months ago, on the New York subway, I looked up at the woman sitting opposite me, and found my eyes drawn to her cap: “I don’t give a F**K,” read big white letters stitched into navy blue…

The Kongunadu novels of Perumal Murugan N Kalyan Raman 30 November, 2013 THE NOVEL FIRST CAME TO TAMIL, as it did to other Indian languages, in the latter half of the 19th century, when the country was under foreign domination. Its early practitioners belonged to the upper castes and tended to be partial to themes of…