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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…
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We could have talked for hours about the Western genocide against the Palestinians. @AlnaouqA lost 21 family members from Gaza in this phase of the genocidal war by Israel. He is the host of @PDeepdive and we spoke in London about the atrocity that is now iron in the soul of the Western consciousness. Is…
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The first two weeks of the war at the Slovak border crossing in Uzhgorod. Arena Quarterly no.12 Clinton Fernandes Dec 2022 An era came to an end in 2022. The Russian invasion of Ukraine dealt a knockout blow to a system that had been battered by repeated financial crises, the COVID-19 pandemic, fragile supply chains…
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Read this fantastic book on Australian sub-imperial foreign policy in three hours. Learnt enormously about the contradictions of Australia’s role in the US imperialist world order. Fernandes draws the parallels with Israel very fruitfully. Immense achievement. The Wolvadoodles: A Review of Sub-Imperial Power Arena Quarterly no.13 Richard King Mar 2023 Sub-Imperial Power: Australia in the…
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Xiao Gongqin thought that, in moments of flux, a strongman could build a bridge to democracy. Now he’s not so sure. By Chang Che December 21, 2024 A large mural depicting current and former Chinese leaders: clockwise from top, Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Hu Jintao, Xi Jinping, and Jiang Zemin.Photograph by Mark Schiefelbein / AP When…
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An intro to Paradise Lost… Culture Critic and Evan Amato Sep 14, 2024 John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost is an unchallenged classic for one reason — evil. Though he was far from the first to grapple with the problem of evil, Milton engaged it from a challenging angle: the perspective of evil itself. Paradise Lost retells the story…
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