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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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Chaman Lal Apr 06, 2024 · 03:30 pm A photograph from 1935 of men saluting the spot where Bhagat Singh and his comrades were executed. | via Sapan News. On March 6, the Supreme Court of Pakistan ruled that ousted prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had been unjustly hanged in 1979. The court’s ruling was following a…
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Sunday 26 January 2025, by Suresh Khairnar#socialtags ShareFacebookTwitterWhatsAppBlogger Humble greetings today on the occasion of the 71st death anniversary of Comrade M.N. Roy, the father of ’neo-humanism’! Narendranath Bhattacharya alias Manvendra Nath Roy (M.N. Roy is more popular), this thirteen-year-old boy was born 138 years ago, on 21st March 1887 in Bengal’s 24 Pargana district. That means…
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Peggy Mohan, a professor of linguistics and the author of several books, spoke with Outlook’s Avantika Mehta about the decline of regional languages, and the importance of acceptance and diplomacy in multi-language polities. A Avantika Mehta Updated on: 17 March 2025 2:43 pm Linguist Peggy Mohan Photo: Special Arrangement Peggy Mohan is a professor of linguistics and the…
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Posted on Sunday, Mar 16, 2025 6:00AM by Katalin Balog by Katalin Balog The mind-body problem in its current form – an inquiry into how the mind fits into the physical universe – was formulated by René Descartes in the 17th century. In his Meditations, a thin volume of philosophy that had a monumental effect on all later Western philosophy,…
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By Paul Le Blanc Published 1 March, 2025 MastodonFacebookTwitterEmail A longtime friend, with whom I share a mutual respect, recently sent me an email regarding my decision to rejoin Solidarity.* What follows are the texts (slightly edited) of a two-part answer to him, and then my replies to a couple of emails he sent in response. I will…
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