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A Facebook community and a WhatsApp group set Roshan Kule on the road from Chandrapur to Cambodia, via Kolkata. PARI investigates. The Minthur series: Part II – Organ Trafficking Author Jaideep Hardikar Editor Harshita Kalyan Photo Editor Binaifer BharuchaSee all credits On his modest smartphone, Roshan Sadashiv Kule opens his Facebook account and scrolls through…
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A nuanced account of the British empire’s impact on the world that is strikingly alive to the complexities of history Nandini Das A dye worker makes indigo by hand. Photograph: Jan Sochor/Alamy Fri 26 Jan 2024 07.30 GMT In the early 1730s, a new subscription craze transformed Georgian Britain. Every year, for five guineas,…
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An excerpt from ‘The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir.’ Ramachandra Guha Yesterday · 08:30 am In 2008, Penguin India chose to bring out Rabindranath Tagore’s brilliant little book, Nationalism, as a Penguin Classic. The editor in charge of this project, Diya Kar, decided – wisely or recklessly I cannot say – not to ask one…
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MastodonFacebookTwitterEmailShare ‘To change masters is not to be free.’—José Martí. By Ian Ellis-Jones February 12, 2021 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — Cuba — perhaps more than most other countries — has been the victim of imperialism and colonisation. The greatest impact of imperialism and colonisation is on people, in particular, indigenous people. Cuba is no exception. There…
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Iván Schuliaquer Álvaro García Linera 17 November, 2023 MastodonFacebookTwitterEmailShare First published in Spanish at Anfibia. Translation by Federico Fuentes for LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal. Álvaro García Linera is an essential reference point for progressive politics in Latin America — as an intellectual for his writings on the state, revolution and plebeian politics, and as…
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Dipankar Bhattacharya 23 January, 2024 MastodonFacebookTwitterEmailShare First published at CPI(ML) Liberation. India had got a rude shock three decades ago when the historic Babri Masjid was demolished by the Sangh brigade in broad daylight. But despite the violence of this act and the hundreds of lives lost as a result, many Indians continued to view it…
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