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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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A Small Boy and Israel BY STEPHEN F. EISENMAN Rembrandt, Abraham’s Sacrifice, 1655. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Understanding the October 7 Hamas attack The numbers are grim, and the details are worse. 1,400 killed (1100 civilians, 300 troops) and 240 taken hostage. The victims at the Supernova Sukkot music festival were just kids — sweet…
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Israelis and their American supporters claim that Israel learned its lessons well from the disastrous 2006 Lebanon war and has devised a winning strategy for the present war against Hamas. Of course, when a ceasefire comes, Israel will declare victory. Don’t believe it. Israel has foolishly started another war it cannot win.
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Jörn Schütrumpf Rosa Luxemburg 10 November, 2023 First published at Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung. In the months leading up to World War I, Rosa Luxemburg and Vladimir Lenin were not quarrelling over the national question, but something different altogether. What their struggle really entailed can be seen in Lenin’s third charge against her, that “she was mistaken in July…
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Reciprocal Otherness Simone de Beauvoir on freedom and difference by Toril Moi phe·nom·en·ology [fəˌnɒmɪˈnɒlədʒi] NOUN PHILOSOPHY BeyondWords One evening in 1932, Simone de Beauvoir joined Jean-Paul Sartre and his old schoolfriend, the philosopher Raymond Aron, for a drink at a bar in Montparnasse.1 The three of them enthusiastically ordered apricot cocktails, the specialty of the house. Aron,…
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‘We live in a world of amorality and shamelessness’ … Rushdie amid mythical characters and legends old and new. Composite: Getty Images/ Alamy/ Warner Bros Salman Rushdie ‘The good guys don’t always win’: Salman Rushdie on peace, Barbie and what freedom cost him What can the great myths (and the summer blockbusters) tell us about peace?…
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