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  Memoirs of an Exalite | Sreejith K

  19 October 2024

  BOOK REVIEW
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  Oranweshanathinte katha
  by K. Venu
  DC Books 2023, 752 pages ISBN: 9789354829383
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  Reviewed by Sreejith K
  In an iconic scene from Sandesham, which has over the years acquired a cult status amongst the Malayalis for its trenchant political satire, a communist party worker, Sreenivasan, during a pennukaanal (would-be bride seeing), after some perfunctory questions on Marxism to the bewilderment of the girl, asks her whether she would be willing to spend the (…)

• Nuclear Clouds over the Middle East can spread far and wide Collateral damage in Gaza | Arun Mitra

  19 October 2024, by Arun Mitra

  In the ongoing war in the Middle East, news that Iran could think of changing its nuclear doctrine is very disturbing but not unexpected. As the situation is developing in the region such adventurous happenings cannot be ruled out. Former Israeli heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu had in January 2024 renewed the call to use nuclear bomb on Gaza. The defence minister of Israel Yoav Gallant

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  Caricature: Tribute to GN Saibaba | Jayaraj Vellur

  19 October 2024, by Jayaraj Vellur
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  Photo: Fredric Jameson, Eqbal Ahmad and others with Yasser Arafat in Lebanon in 1981 during a trip organised by Edward Said

  19 October 2024
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  Music: The Doors - Riders on the Storm (1967)

  19 October 2024

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  The Doors - Riders on the Storm (Sunset Sound Version - Original Demo) by The Doors https://youtu.be/bUmqGggw0oc?si=jC0pWZt44MCPSyYG

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  Video: A. L. Morton: Revolutions, Utopias, and Life in the English Radical Tradition

  19 October 2024

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  A. L. Morton: Revolutions, Utopias, and Life in the English Radical Tradition by CenSAMM https://youtu.be/Gr7dFyd73hk?si=9mH9cm0xM_A9G3KM

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  Charlie Chaplin and The Taliban

  19 October 2024

  https://youtu.be/0fQaJYR2KUs?si=jNw2mUlJKZ3MLpN1

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Oct 12, 2024

  12 October 2024

  * A resurgent Congress under Rahul has to clear all the dead wood | Faraz Ahmad
  * Escalation of Israel-Iran Hostilities | | Abdul Wasi Popalzay
  * The Oceanic Circle: Talk on Mahatma Gandhi

• The Oceanic Circle: Talk on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi

  12 October 2024, by Dilip Simeon

  (Text of the talk delivered by Dilip Simeon on October 2, 2024 at the Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi)
  The bane of our life is our exclusive provincialism, whereas my province must be co-extensive with the Indian boundary so that ultimately it extends to the boundary of the earth. Else it perishes

• A resurgent Congress under Rahul has to clear all the dead wood | Faraz Ahmad

  12 October 2024, by Faraz Ahmad

  One clear message from Haryana for the resurgent Congress led by Rahul Gandhi is to clear all the dead wood and send the ageing satraps to retirement homes.
  First it was Madhya Pradesh where the then Pradesh Congress committee (PCC) president Kamal Nath, even after becoming the chief minister in 2018 won