Jean-Luc Godard and the Incoherence of Modern Life
A tribute to the master of modern French cinema, with a focus on two of his films, Breathless and My Life to Live.
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Peter Brook (1927-2022): The Creator of Illusions
Brook created a repertory theatre that was consistent only in being defiant of the existing norms.
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Why Emperor Ashoka Still Matters
Reflections on the nature of remembering and perpetuating the ruler from the third century BCE and the link between the past and the present.
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‘Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here’: The Hell-Gates of Dachau
Dachau was one of the most enduring institutions of Nazism, rising and falling with the Third Reich itself, as grotesque and brutal as the regime that conceived it.
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My Seventy Years and the Departed GDR
Victor Grossman on 70 years since his defection to the DDR: “I still look back with a mixture of nostalgia, regret and also pride at its many hard-won achievements …”
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A People’s History of Howard Zinn
On the hundred year anniversary of Howard Zinn’s birth, Sean Ledwith examines the life and work of America’s greatest radical historian
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Revisiting Kali: An Amalgam of Aboriginal Deities and a Symbol of Rebellion
However much the Sangh parivar may try now to impose its intolerant religious diktats by using her name, Kali in Bengal had been traditionally worshipped as a goddess of rebellion against all such repressive orders.
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Africa | Culture | Online Blog | Racism
Meet the Black Musician Unraveling Generations of Hate
By addressing prejudices head-on with an open mind, blues musician Daryl Davis has succeeded in convincing over 200 KKK members and other White supremacists to disavow their allegiances.
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Culture | India | Online Blog
Vimal Bhai – Two Obituaries
Vimal Bhai breathed his last on 15 August at AIIMS, Delhi. He will be remembered for a long time for his contributions to many ecological and social movements, especially the movements against several ill-planned hydro-electricity projects in Uttarakhand.
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Caste | Communalism | Culture | Online Blog
Art-Literature for Social Change and Annabhau’s Struggles and Contributions
As we celebrate the birth centenary of Tukaram (Annabhau Sathe) we not only see the relevance of his writings at that time but even today.
