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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 review of a ‘documentary’ film on Doordarshan about India’s heritage. First published in The Wire (PDF). A nation is an ‘imagined community’, wrote Benedict Anderson in his influential book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1983). A nation is imagined, he argued, because its members feel a sense of solidarity with one another, even though…
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Originally published: The Bullet on September 25, 2023 by Benjamin Selwyn (more by The Bullet) (Posted Sep 26, 2023) The great cultural theorist Stuart Hall called Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth “the bible of decolonisation” as it encapsulated the urge for freedom across the colonial world.1 Fanon illuminates how racism represented an organising principle for capitalist classes by systematically devaluing the lives…
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Source: The Paperclip With the recent India-Canada rift, the haunting shadow of the Komagata Maru and Canada’s once racist immigration laws looms large. Yet, from that history, one Canadian hero has been forgotten – a lone warrior who battled white supremacists on behalf of 376 Indians. It was a voyage from Hong Kong to Canada that represented…
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