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Socialism and the Indian Constitution (part of a series of short volumes that Neera Chandoke and I are editing for the Centre for Equity Studies
Rooted in anti-colonial struggle, Indian socialism, despite its limitations, helped progress towards an egalitarian society. Can that pathway be reclaimed? India’s immensely respected economist and public intellectual Prabhat Patnaik masterfully assembles in the pages of a short monograph the sweep of India’s post-colonial economic history. This is in his forthcoming Socialism and the Indian Constitution (part of
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Posted on Wednesday, Mar 12, 2025 6:00AM by Bill Murray by Bill Murray I. A hundred years ago two battered and beleaguered old men, one an Italian prisoner, the other taken to wandering Irish bogs, arrived at the same fateful truth: the world around them was collapsing. Antonio Gramsci, Marxist theorist, imprisoned member of the Italian parliament, wrote from…
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The First Cell And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last With the fascinating scholarship of The Emperor of All Maladies and the deeply personal experience of When Breath Becomes Air, a world-class oncologist examines the current state of cancer and its devastating impact on the individuals it affects — including herself. In The First Cell, Azra…
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How the former footballer’s production company became the number one (and number two, and number five, and number nine and number 12) name in British podcastsBy Nick PopePublished: 04 November 2024 This article was originally published in the Winter issue of Esquire It’s a cloudy evening in the middle of June and thousands of people are swarming…
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/irelands-fight-for-freedom-the-easter-rising-ep-1/id1639561921?i=1000699535390 The 1916 Easter Rising was a definitive moment in 20th-century Irish history. Its memory was evoked throughout The Troubles, with republicans wearing commemorative Easter Lily badges to honour the revolutionary martyrs that came before them. On Easter Monday in 1916, amongst the backdrop of the ongoing First World War, Irish revolutionaries brought the anti-colonial…
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Robert Reich If you are considering a trip to the US, please reconsider. Why reward Donald Trump’s America with your tourist dollars?Tue 18 Mar 2025 14.00 GMTShare224 To friends of democracy around the world: we need your help. You know that the Trump regime is brutally attacking US democracy. Most of us did not vote…
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