Latest
-
Socialism and the Indian Constitution (part of a series of short volumes that Neera Chandoke and I are editing for the Centre for Equity Studies
Rooted in anti-colonial struggle, Indian socialism, despite its limitations, helped progress towards an egalitarian society. Can that pathway be reclaimed? India’s immensely respected economist and public intellectual Prabhat Patnaik masterfully assembles in the pages of a short monograph the sweep of India’s post-colonial economic history. This is in his forthcoming Socialism and the Indian Constitution (part of…
ALL Posts
-
Harry C. Hindmarsh, assistant managing editor of the Toronto Daily Star, knew how to get under Ernest Hemingway’s skin. Harry C. Hindmarsh via Flickr By: Emily Zarevich January 6, 2025 3 minutes The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. You may have experienced a boss who’s so intolerable, so insufferable, and so tyrannical that no…
-
Thoughts ahead of the Mahatma’s 75th death anniversary. Ramachandra Guha Yesterday · 07:30 am · Mahatma Gandhi at East End in London in 1931 | By Unknown author, Public Domain, Next week, we shall mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi‘s martyrdom. So long after his death, does Gandhi still matter? Should he matter? In this…
-
By James Doughney Published 20 January, 2025 MastodonFacebookTwitterEmail In the Preface to the 1920 French and German editions of Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916), Vladimir Lenin summarised the result of “imperialism”: Capitalism has grown into a world system of colonial oppression and of the financial strangulation of the overwhelming majority of the population of the world by a handful of “advanced”…
-
Balmurli Natrajan 3 hours ago 5 min read Can Ambedkar be coopted, made palatable, hollowed out, made manageable, shorn of substance? This is precisely what Anand Teltumbde warns us about in writing this book. File image: One of many ‘Golden’ Ambedkar statues that came up in the 1980s and 90s, a symbol of hope for…
-
The forbearance of Miguel de Cervantes, Don quixote and what I plan to do with it. Faizan Jan 20, 2025 We are currently reading Don Quixote as part of our reading plan which you can follow on The Formidable Cervantes and Don Quixote The forbearance of Miguel de Cervantes, Don quixote and what I plan to…
Knock nock 