Fearlessly Forever!
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Remembering Habib Tanvir on His Birth Centenary Year
To discuss Habib Tanvir is to talk about several styles, expressions, identities and ethos of theater simultaneously. The truth is that there are so many facets to Habib Tanveer’s acting and personality that it is impossible to include them all.
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Iran’s Govt Scrambles to Contain Unrest as it Spreads to More Towns and Cities; Also: Press Release by IMSD
The large-scale protests against the Iranian government over the custodial death of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who was arrested by the country’s notorious “morality” police for allegedly violating the strict law on headscarves has reportedly spread to about 80 cities and towns.
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Replug: Remembering Captain Lakshmi Sahgal
“I belong to a generation that is fortunate enough to have met many men and women who fought in the Indian freedom movement. The one who left the deepest impression on me is Lakshmi Sahgal. She lived in the present and planned for struggles in the future,” says the author.
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Marx’s Writings on Asia: A Sober Assessment
An exploration of Marx’s economic writings to see how he portrayed and understood Asia—particularly India and China—and a discussion of how Marxian methodology should be applied to the analysis of Asian economies, in the context of what we have come to know about this region through more recent studies.
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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 …”
