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There is a striking irony in the way Sitaram Yechury is being remembered today.
K A Shaji in Facebook Pinarayi Vijayan and the Kerala CPI(M) leadership speak of Yechury as a towering communist, an exceptional parliamentarian and a great defender of secular India. But when Yechury was alive, the CPI(M) unit in Kerala, by then firmly under Pinarayi Vijayan’s iron grip, was among the strongest forces resisting him. This…
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in India — by Ramakrishnan — 07/12/2020 Dr.BR Ambedkar (1891-1956) was remembered across the country on his death anniversary, December 6. It has become a showy ritual for many, more so for the most oppressive, fraudulent and corrupt rulers, the big media ready to give them plenty of coverage that is denied to burning issues of the day. They are interested…
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February 12, 2022 Pranav Kishore Saxena 0 Comments Gandhi and Ambedkar are India’s most popular thinkers, and also the most romanticised ones. While Gandhi is called the “father of India”, Ambedkar is called the father of the text that makes India a democracy (on paper), the Constitution. People often worship these figures, but usually do not read,…
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December 15, 2023 DevelopmentsCOP28, climate governance, development View this email in your browser See Art of the Week. No. 50 | COP out Dear friend, The world’s leaders are not coming to save us. That was the message in brilliant technicolour from the 28th COP meeting that concluded in Dubai…
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The great Chilean poet and diplomat Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904–September 23, 1973) was only a small boy, just over the cusp of preconscious memory, when he had a revelation about why we make art. It seeded in him a lifelong devotion to literature as a supreme tool that “widens out the boundaries of our being, and unites…
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‘I have written to get away from myself’: Literature laureate Jon Fosse’s Nobel Prize lecture ‘The literary language doesn’t inform, it is meaning rather than communication, it has its own existence.’ Jon Fosse Dec 09, 2023 · 05:30 pm When I was at junior high school, it happened without warning. The teacher asked me to…
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