Percy Bysshe Shelley: Romanticism and Revolution
During the gloom of the early nineteenth century, Shelley’s rage against injustice and revolutionary ardour burned with an intensity perhaps unmatched in the history of art.
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Understanding the Life and Philosophy of Gandhi
Was Gandhi a Mahatma or a mass leader who was a political strategist par excellence? Or is it wrong to even think in terms of such a dichotomy? Reflections on understanding a remarkable personality.
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Eminent Citizens Oppose Govt’s Rs 1200-Cr Plan for Sabarmati Ashram
Writers, activists, former high court judges, educationists, former civil servants and other eminent citizens have written a stern note of opposition to the Union government’s Rs 1,200-crore plan to refurbish the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad into a “world class” memorial.
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RSS and Ambedkar: A Camaraderie That Never Existed
A party manifesto published by Scheduled Caste Federation (SCF) in 1951, authored by Ambedkar himself, is another testimony of his categorical cynicism against the RSS. It clearly argued, “The SCF will not have any alliance with any reactionary party such as Hindu Mahasabha or the RSS”.
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In Chokhamela’s Bhakti, Past Transforms into Radical Present
Chokhamela’s 13th to 14th-century abhangas, and the songs of other Maharashtrian dalit-bahujan saint-poets from the Bhakti movement, offer a complex and crucial narrative to understand the inception and growth of resistance in future Dalit traditions and movements.
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Nicaragua’s Sandinistas Battle ‘Diabolical’ U.S. Empire and Poverty on 42nd Anniversary of Revolution
Report from Nicaragua on the 42nd anniversary of the Sandinista revolution. Nicaraguans discuss their improved quality of life. President Ortega condemns the dictatorial US “empire that wants to dominate all countries”.
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What Is Socialism for the Twenty-First Century?
Socialism for the twenty-first century is not a statist society where decisions are top-down and where all initiative is the property of state office-holders or cadres of self-reproducing vanguards. It rejects a state that stands over and above society and squeezes “the living civil society like a boa constrictor”.
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How a 19-Year-Old Found ‘Kairos’ at the Tikri Border
Nirvair Malhi, a 19-year-old high school graduate from Jalandhar, came to the Tikri border with the intention of visiting the protest for exactly a day. He has ended up staying there for the last seven months.
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How Ambedkar Makes Us Richer
The Dalit feminist writer, Urmila Pawar, sums things up in her foreword by saying, “The more we see him (Dr. Ambedkar) in the round, the richer we become,” a point that can be made about no leader alive today.
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Socialist Pedro Castillo Sworn in as the President of Peru
José Pedro Castillo, a 51-year-old teacher of a rural school, assumed the charge of the presidency of Peru on July 28. This is the first time that Peru will be ruled by a peasant, a person who belongs to a sector that has been oppressed for so many centuries.
