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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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Originally published: Ancillary Review of Books on December 28, 2022 by Anna McFarlane (more by Ancillary Review of Books) (Posted Nov 09, 2023) Ideology, Literature, Marxism, RevolutionsEuropeNewswire, Review China Miéville is the most important UK author of the early twenty-first century; his Bas Lag fantasy trilogy brought a new kind of socially-conscious weird fiction into the mainstream of British literature. Even…
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BY MARIA POPOVA To be alive is to marvel — at least occasionally, at least with glimmers of some deep intuitive wonderment — at the Rube Goldberg machine of chance and choice that makes us who we are as we half-stride, half-stumble down the improbable paths that lead us back to ourselves. My own life was…
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BY MARIA POPOVA “Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship,” Seneca counseled in considering true and false friendship, “but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul.” To lose a friend who has earned such wholehearted admission into your soul is…
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The Two Milan Kunderas Alena DvořákováSeptember 2023 There have for a while now been two Milan Kunderas, characters so different as to suggest Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. There is Kundera the good European, celebrated as an eminent writer, a defender of freedom of speech, a voice of remembering against the politics of forgetting, and…
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The story is set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution of 1905. Mother initially supports her son Pavel’s involvement in revolutionary activities reluctantly but becomes more engaged as she witnesses the injustices faced by the working class. She evolves from a simple, obedient mother into a symbol of maternal strength and revolutionary spirit. The…
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