AN INTERVIEW WITHYao Graham New documents looking at British and American involvement in overthrowing Kwame Nkrumah give us pause to reflect on his legacy, and its resonances today. INTERVIEW BYAnakwa Dwamena One of the most important dates for the Ghanaian left is February 24, 1966, the day the country’s first president Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown.…

BYHICHAM SAFIEDDINE The Lebanese Marxist thinker Mahdi Amel was assassinated on this day in 1987. Amel developed a version of Marxism that was grounded in the experience of colonized societies, showing how class struggle converges with the fight for national liberation. With rare exceptions, non-Western theorists of Marxism receive short intellectual shrift. When they register…

About The Book In the Mirror of Urdu By Rakhshanda Jalil Kabhi hum bhi tum bhi thhe aashna tumhein yaad ho ke na yaad hoOnce you and I were friends, whether you remember it now or not–Momin Khan Momin This is a book about love—love for one’s country and for all that goes to make it…

BY MARIA POPOVA “To approach someone else convincingly you must do so with open arms and head held high, and your arms can’t be open unless your head is high,” the Lebanese-born French writer Amin Maalouf wrote in his timeless, increasingly timely reflection on how to disagree. It is in times as divisive as ours and as sundered…

in Book Review by Joydip Ghosal 20/05/2024 Away from the watchful monitoring of electronic and print media, across India’s dusty and sleepy towns a genre of popular culture is clandestinely seizing the public imagination. Acerbic lyrics laced with vitriolic hatred, foot tapping music and songs along with kavisanmelans are shaping the discourse in the hinterland resulting in…