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On January 1, 2025, the iconic statue of the late saint-poet Tiruvalluvar in Kanyakumari, which stands majestically at the southern tip of Tamil Nadu, celebrated its 25th anniversary. The statue has become a symbol of Tamil Nadu’s cultural identity – just as timeless as the revered text authored by Tiruvalluvar himself.
Well, we just missed his birthday, but what the hell. Born as Samuel Langhorne Clemens on November 30, 1835, Mark Twain is a universal genius both for the value of his literary work and for his articles and thoughts, in which his humor and combat are unsurpassed.
Several months after Feynman’s death, while working on what would become ‘Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman’ — the masterly biography plumbing the wellspring of Feynman’s genius — James Gleick discovered something of arresting strangeness and splendor.
Mosques were built by sailors during the lifetime of the Prophet, since the 7th century, along the coasts of India. The most famous of these is the Cheraman Juma Masjid in Kerala’s Thrissur district, widely believed to be the oldest mosque in the subcontinent.
Poem. Translated by Ayesha Kidwai.
Pravrajika Atmaprana edited in 1995 a book called ‘Western Women in the Footsteps of Swami Vivekananda’. The truth is that those footsteps were made possible in the first place by Western women. It is to them that this essay is dedicated.
Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: The Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”; Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony: 200 Years of an Iconic Work of Art.
The tendency of the human mind, whether fighting for personal territory or fighting for justice, is to create an enemy: self vs the other, us vs them, good vs evil. In our times, which seem more divided than ever, Kabir invites us to look beyond easy binaries.
India celebrates the 75th Republic Day on January 26. On this day, 75 years ago, in 1950, the Constitution pledged equality, regardless of gender, caste, religion, class, community or language. It is a fitting time to revisit this poem by Rabindranath Tagore on his vision of a truly liberated India.
Tagore’s words, “Be on watch, India” and asking people “to stand before the proud and the powerful/ With your white robe of simpleness”, are of greater relevance today, when the arrival of 2024 is being celebrated, than when he composed those words to mark the advent of the year 1900.
Janata Weekly is India’s oldest independent socialist weekly.
Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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