Where does culture come from? Terry Eagleton Share on TwitterShare on FacebookEmailPrint 3571 words In​ Jude the Obscure, Jude Fawley finds himself living in Beersheba, the area of Oxford we know as Jericho, home at the time to a community of craftsmen and artisans who maintained the fabric of the university. It doesn’t take Jude long to realise…

An excerpt from ‘The Jallianwala Bagh Journals’, by Sarmistha Dutta Gupta. Sarmistha Dutta Gupta 4 hours ago An old photo of the Jallianwala Bagh grounds framed in the office of the Jallianwala Bagh Memorial Trust. | Utsab Chatterjee When I had begun researching on Jallianwala Bagh, I had no knowledge of Rabindranath Tagore’s views on…

Back in the 1970s, Indira Gandhi combined authoritarianism with a devotion to family rule; now, Narendra Modi combines authoritarianism with a devotion to Hindu majoritarianism Ramachandra Guha Published 20.04.24, 05:59 AM Voters in Bengal in the 1977 polls.Sourced by the Telegraph. Indians have begun voting in the country’s eighteenth general election. Of the seventeen previous iterations, two…

Labor and the Bibi-Modi “Bromance” The Israel-India worker deal resembles British indenture. Michelle Buckley Paula Chakravartty Israel and Palestine, Labor In December, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a personal request from his friend and political ally, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: expedite the supply of Indian construction labor and other migrant workers to Israel. Prior…

POSTED ON MONDAY, APR 22, 2024 1:10AM BY MARIE SNYDER by Marie Snyder In the West, it feels like we have never lived outside of a system of pseudo-feudalism, a time without peasantry, slavery, or the working poor labouring for the benefit of Kings, land barons, or factory owners. For thousands of years, the exploitation of people appeared necessary to some of…