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Elizabeth Kolbert In the first half of the 19th century, one of America’s most prominent scientists was a doctor named Samuel Morton. Morton lived in Philadelphia, and he collected skulls. He wasn’t choosy about his suppliers. He accepted skulls scavenged from battlefields and snatched from catacombs. One of his most famous craniums belonged to an…
Subhash Gatade Rare are the occasions when the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS)—which could be said to be the biggest organisation of Hindu men—moves beyond its founder member Dr Hedgewar to build memorials. Whatever might be the consideration behind it, but it came as a bit of a surprise that the RSS has decided to start…
Daniel Kent-Carrasco Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, UNAM, Ciudad de México, México 1. Introduction In the 1950s and 1960s, the meaning of socialism became a crucial matter for thinkers, politicians and ideologues across the Third World. The goal of socialism was central to a broad transnational movement that sought to alter the balance of geopolitical and…
David Barsamian [Over the last decade, far-right nationalist movements have grown in power around the world. Citizens in England, Germany, Italy, France, Hungary, Poland, Brazil, and the United States are increasingly rejecting international partnerships, opposing immigration, and choosing blunt authoritarianism over messy democracy. To Benjamin Carter Hett, award-winning author of four books about Nazis and…
Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster For those concerned with the fate of the earth, the time has come to face facts: not simply the dire reality of climate change but also the pressing need for social-system change. The failure to arrive at a world climate agreement in Copenhagen in December 2009 was not simply…
September 28, 2019 marks the immortal revolutionary martyr Bhagat Singh’s 112th birth anniversary. On this occasion we are publishing the following article on Bhagat Singh. Introduction Shahid Bhagat Singh is widely recognised as perhaps the most famous and respected revolutionary of the freedom movement of India. Although he, along with his two comrades Sukhdev and…
Arundhati Roy’s “Introduction” to Annihilation of Caste: The Annotated Edition titled “The Doctor and The Saint” appears to have been written more to attack Gandhi than to assess the contemporary relevance of this great book and/or the life and works of its author—Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. Therefore, Ambedkarites might find some reasons to ignore the article….
I shall be taking up two intertwined themes: one is the recognition of what we have begun to call the Other, with a capital ‘O’. The second is the interface of this Other with established society and religion, which I shall be calling the Self, with a capital ‘S’. The interface naturally covers an unending…
Interview with S’bu Zikode [Land has always been central to the nationalist imagination in South Africa. But, after apartheid, the African National Congress (ANC) did not act to democratise governance in the former Bantustans (land designated for black South Africans under apartheid), or to undertake serious land reform in the vastly larger areas under the…
(Third Shambhu Dutta Memorial Lecture, Organized by Transparency International India at IIC, September 9, 2019.) Preface to the Lecture I am grateful to Transparency International India for asking me to deliver the Third Shambhu Dutta Memorial Lecture. It is held in the memory of Shri Shambhu Dutta (1918-2016), the founding father of Transparency International India….
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