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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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DON’T ARGUE WITH DONKEYS “The donkey said to the tiger: “The grass is blue.” The tiger replied: “No, the grass is green.” The discussion heated up, and the two decided to go to the lion, the king of the jungle. Already before reaching the forest, where the lion was sitting on his throne, the donkey…
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Pledge your support If this is BJP’s plight with Modi around, what when he is not? By putting all its dhoklas in one basket, the Sangh Parivar has made the most basic of management mistakes JUN 06, 2024 So, Narendra Modi‘s guarantee that the Congress would get fewer seats than Rahul Gandhi‘s age (53) fell flat. As…
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November 20, 2023 Mr. President, Ambassadors, Secretary-General Guterres, NDB President Rousseff, distinguished diplomats, ladies and gentlemen, My name is Jeffrey D. Sachs. I am University Professor at Columbia University. I am a specialist in the global economy and sustainable development. I appear before the UN Security Council on my own behalf. I represent no government or organization…
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Bombshell insights from world-renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs on the Russia-Ukraine war, CIA coups, American super-imperialism, the origins of Covid, the Kennedy assassination and much more THOMAS FAZI JUN 05, 2024 I don’t know how many of you out there suffer from my same “condition”, but I can only really digest information in written form. This…
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Autocracy, with Indian characteristics By Prashant Kidambi Narendra Modi, 2024|© Vipin Kumar/Hindustan Times/Getty Images May 31, 2024 Read this issue IN THIS REVIEW GUJARAT UNDER MODI Laboratory of today’s India416pp. Hurst. £30. Christophe Jaffrelot THE INCARCERATIONS BK-16 and the search for democracy in India672pp. William Collins. £30. Alpa Shah At the dawn of the twenty-first century…

