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Eric Hobsbawn: The historian who defended communism, misread India and avoided the Holocaust
In The Age of Hobsbawm, Emile Chabal strips away the mythology surrounding one of 20th century’s most influential historians Written by: Murari 5 min readUpdated: Sep 6, 2026 05:03 PM IST The Age of Hobsbawm, Emile Chabal. Make us preferred source on Google History can be cruel to the historian himself. For decades, Eric Hobsbawm was…
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Naomi Klein won the inaugural Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction for her book ‘Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World’. Scroll Staff Yesterday · 11:24 am The 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction was won by American author of Sri Lankan descent VV Ganeshananthan for her novel, Brotherless Night. It is a story about a family fractured by…
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in India by Shamsul Islam 15/06/2024 Ram Madhav is the intellectual face of RSS. He was the RSS spokesperson for more than a decade (2003-2014) and was loaned to BJP in 2014, becoming its prime general secretary. Presently, he is a member of the RSS executive. It is expected that his narratives on different issues would reflect…
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The nuclear-powered submarine Kazan arrives in Havana (YAMIL LAGE / AFP) AMERICACUBAROWRUSSIAUKRAINEWAR Thomas Fazi JUNE 15, 2024 5 MINS When a four-ship Russian flotilla sailed into the port of Havana on Wednesday, US authorities were quick to downplay the event’s significance. We were reminded that Russia’s deployments were part of routine naval activity and that it’s…
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Adam Shatz Vol. 46 No. 12 · 20 June 2024 – London Review of Books The State of Israel v. the Jews by Sylvain Cypel, translated by William Rodarmor.Other Press, 352 pp., £24, October 2022, 978 1 63542 097 5 Deux peuples pour un état?: Relire l’histoire du sionisme by Shlomo Sand.Seuil, 256 pp., £20, January, 978 2 02 154166 3 Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-78 by Geoffrey Levin.Yale, 304…
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A guide to the very bottom… Culture CriticJune 12, 2024 Read time: 6 minutes Few works of Western literature can compete with Dante’s Divine Comedy. It’s a fascinatingly engaging read, despite being written over 700 years ago and containing many complex references to history and myth. For those who want to master the cultural heritage of the…
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