Mainstream WeeklyWe are going through a time when the normal parameters of life are suspended. Pathologies of our modernity are being manifested day by day in the post-COVID world. According to media reports, people are dying in India due to lack of supply of medical oxygen, and mass cremations/burials are taking place. The Indian State has miserably failed in ensuring the minimum life-support facilities to the victims of the corona virus. This moment of darkness brings back to our memory T S Eliot’s (…)
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Remembering T S Eliot | Arup Kumar Sen
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Delhi: 3rd May 2021
8 May 2021, by Sagari ChhabraDelhi; 3rd May 2021
Pyres are lit, so numerous That the horizon is smudged grey With the smoke of bodies We did cremate; Still they debate, To give or not to give; Who shall live?
The crematorium’s iron melts; But not the heart of men in power Who even in this hour Play politics over governance While the gasping, await deliverance.
They divided us in the name of religion, They called us names, And around these games Only the people died, Pleading for oxygen, hospital beds And in the (…) -
Review Essay: ‘Intertwined Lives: PN Haksar and Indira Gandhi’, by Jairam Ramesh | KS Subramanian
8 May 2021by KS Subramanian
Intertwined Lives: PN Haksar and Indira Gandhi by Jairam Ramesh Simon & Schuster, India, 2018, pp.518, Price Rs. 799
This remarkable book is about Parmeshwar Narain Haksar arguably India’s most influential and powerful civil servant under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
Haksar was Indira Gandhi’s alter ego during her period of glory. The eminent administrator and diplomat, was educated in Allahabad and London; and was called to the Bar from Lincoln ‘s Inn. He (…) -
Alastair Hemmens ’The Critique of Work in Modern French Thought’ reviewed by Ross Sparkes
8 May 2021THE CRITIQUE OF WORK IN MODERN FRENCH THOUGHT: From Charles Fourier to Guy Debord by Alastair Hemmens
Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2019. 226 pp. £44.99 pb Hardcover ISBN 978-3-030-12585-1 Softcover ISBN 978-3-030-12588-2 eBook ISBN 978-3-030-12586-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-12586-8
Reviewed by Ross Sparkes
Under capitalism, life is work and work is life. To imagine a world beyond it is sheer blasphemy. Yet, a growing number of titles over the past decade have begun to do just that. They (…) -
Tomb of poet and educator Henry Louis Vivian Derozio at Kolkata’s South Park Street Cemetery - Two Photos
8 May 2021This photo by Deepanjan Ghosh at https://commons.wikimedia.org is reproduced here under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license
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Letter To Lenin (21 December 1920) | P. Kropotkin
8 May 2021Dmitrov (Moscow province)
21 December, 1920
Respected Vladimir Illich,
An announcement has been placed in Izvestiia and in Pravda which makes known the decision of the Soviet government to seize as hostages SRs [Social Revolutionary party members] from the Savinkov groups, White Guards of the nationalist and tactical center, and [Pyotr] Wrangel officers; and, in case of an [assassination] attempt on the leaders of the soviets, to “mercilessly exterminate” these hostages.
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Video: Satyajit Ray on music (interviewed by Pierre-Andre Boutang, 1989) | Scores and Sounds interview with Shyam Benegal
8 May 2021(interviewed by Pierre-Andre Boutang, 1989 Part III)
https://youtu.be/RWS5dlxwZDc
Scores and Sounds interview with Shyam Benegal Play
Satyajit Ray on Sounds and Scores by hSuresh Suresh https://youtu.be/VXd8brYfqdU
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Music of Satyajit Ray https://www.cinemasofindia.com/#product/16059-78134/77768/music-of-satyajit-ray -
Video: Hunger Games- Mao’s Great Famine | Frank Dikotter
8 May 2021Play
#JLF 2013: Hunger Games- Mao’s Great Famine by Jaipur Literature Festival https://youtu.be/ks2gb8l88GU -
Video: Strike [Стачка] | Sergei Eisenstein (1925) (with English Subtitles)
8 May 2021Play
Strike (Eisenstein, 1925) — English Intertitles — HD Quality by André Bourbeau https://youtu.be/hG_yM7We0C8
April 28, 1925 - Sergei Eisenstein’s first full-length film, “Strike” is released in USSR about a 1903 strike in pre-revolutionary Russia. -
Table of Contents, Mainstream, May 1, 2021
1 May 2021* Chamoli and Climate Change | SG Vombatkere
* The Covid Moment and the Civilisational Crisis | Manoranjan Mohanty
* LDF and Kerala elections 2021 | P Radhakrishnan
* Assam Assembly Election 2021: on the Verge of a Political Quandary | Nurul Hassan
* Political violence may intensify after the West Bengal Assembly Election 2021 | Tarun Kumar Basu
* AITUC Zindabad | Chittoprasad