How Modi Is Trying to Use Gandhi’s Name to Whitewash His Dark Record
The plan to reshape the Mahatma’s Sabarmati Ashram is an act of vandalism.
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Annabhau Sathe: Revolutionary Poet, Novelist, Playwright and Social Reformer
Annabhau’s writings are about the struggles and qualities of the marginalized sections of society. He wanted to fuse Ambedkarism and Marxism. It is regrettable that Hindi translations of his works are not available even 50 years after his death.
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In Conversation with K. Veeramani
K. Veeramani is perhaps the senior most of the leaders of revolutionary Periyar E.V. Ramasamy’s Dravidian movement. In this wide-ranging conversation, he gives extensive details of the background of formation of Self Respect Movement.
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UP Population Bill: Fighting Imaginary Demons
Population growth is already slowing down across faiths. The Bill only serves to foster division. Plus extracts from: “… UP … 50% of party MLAs have more than two children” and “MP: 39 % of BJP MLAs … Including 13 Ministers, Have Three and Above Children, Shows Data”.
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‘I Made No Compromise in Any of My Films’—Adoor Gopalakrishnan
The great filmmaker, who turned eighty on 3 July, says he never made films just to please his audience or producers and has no regrets.
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From State to Civil Society, how Bengal Responded to Covid
During the peak of the second surge of the deadly killer virus in summer this year, when patients in several parts of India were literally gasping for breath, the situation in West Bengal was much better managed.
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The Cinematograph Act Always Gave the Govt Too Much Power. That’s Why We Challenged it.
As we stand at the intersection of freedom and state control, the judiciary is the only hope. Though that hope has also faded in recent years, our challenge is to not give up the Sisyphean fight to set governmental authoritarianism at naught.
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Let’s Have Some Power with Our Pride
Every civilised country grants dignity, rights and protection to citizens regardless of identity. It is about time India does so too. For this, it is important that LGBTQIA+ leaders enter electoral politics because without political power their pride will always be challenged.
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Critique of the Misunderstanding Concerning Marx’s Base-Superstructure Spatial Metaphor
A clarification of the famed and famously misinterpreted spatial metaphor of the economic foundation and the political-legal superstructure.
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Rabindranath – Finding Peace and Acceptance Through Art
His life and philosophy is the anthem that calls to every human and tells them to keep hope, to find peace in solitude, to accept the anguish and embrace the distress, and to finally find a home in the ship of creativity, that aids this tormented mind to find its happy place in the confines of four walls.
