Published : Jan 12, 2024 17:24 IST – 12 MINS READ SUMIT BAUDH Dutt erases queer Dalit voices while claiming the term “coming out” for herself, overlooking its origins and complex marginalised experiences. The Amazon Prime video series, Made In Heaven (MIH), opened the floodgates to an unresolved spat over demands for credit and allegations of appropriation.…

Indians: The Aryans and the Vedic Age More than a thousand years after the Harappans, the next cities arose in the Gangetic Plain in mid-first millennium BCE. Episode two of the series focuses on them. After the decline of the Harappan Civilisation, waves of Aryan migrants arrived from Central Asia between 2000-1500 BCE. A nomadic-pastoralist…

Pedro Fuentes Federico Fuentes 10 January, 2024 Pedro Fuentes is a leader of the Movimento Esquerda Socialista (Socialist Left Movement, MES), a revolutionary tendency within Brazil’s broad anti-capitalist Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (Socialism and Freedom Party, PSOL). He is the author of, among other writings, Setenta años de luchas y revoluciones en América Latina (Seventy Years of…

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by Domitila Barrios de Chungara and Moema Viezzer $28.00 – $89.00 Let Me Speak! is a moving testimony from inside the Bolivian tin mines of the 1970s, by a woman whose life was defined by her defiant struggle against those at the very top of the power structure, the Bolivian elite. Blending firsthand accounts with astute political analysis, Domitila Barrios de…