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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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BY MARIA POPOVA “Those who tell you ‘Do not put too much politics in your art’ are not being honest,” beloved Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe (November 16, 1930–March 21, 2013) observed in his forgotten 1980 conversation with James Baldwin. “If you look very carefully you will see that they are the same people who are quite happy with the situation…
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Graphic for Orinoco Tribune’s special interview with Palestinian activist and author Khaled Barakat, available on YouTube. (Photo: Orinoco Tribune) Special interview with Khaled Barakat: Gaza demands end of genocide, not ‘ceasefire’ By Saheli Chowdhury (Posted Nov 11, 2023) Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on November 9, 2023 by Saheli Chowdhury (more by Orinoco Tribune) | Human Rights, Inequality, State Repression, WarGaza, Israel, Middle East, PalestineInterview,…
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Other languages Français Türkçe русский Deutsch हिन्दी 简体中文 Arabic The Intimate Embrace Between Liberalism and the Far Right: The Forty-Sixth Newsletter (2023) NOVEMBER 16, 2023 For Comrade N. Sankaraiah (1922–2023) Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. One of the curiosities of our time is…
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Interviewed by Edwina Burness & Jerry Griswold ISSUE 86, WINTER 1982 THE PARIIS REVIEW JULIE ANDREWS, WALT DISNEY, PAMELA TRAVERS P. L. Travers’s terraced house in Chelsea has a pink door, the color of the cover of Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane. In the hall is an antique rocking horse. Her study is at the top of the…
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BY MARIA POPOVA The Greek polymath Pythagoras (c. 570–c. 495 BC) ignited the golden age of mathematics with the development of numerical logic and the discovery of his namesake theorem of geometry, which furnished the world’s first foothold toward the notion of scientific proof and has been etched into the mind of every schoolchild in the millennia…
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