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In the 1950s, Arthur Samuel Lall (India, 1911 – 1998) became the Indian Consul General and its Permanent Representative to the United Nations. As diplomat, he was able to help the newly independent India come to the forefront of international affairs. An activist against the use of nuclear weapons, Mr Lall represented India at the Conference of the Eighteen-Nation Committee on Disarmament in 1962. He was the author of several books, including The UN and the Middle East Crisis, 1967 and The (…)

LSE South Asia Centre Webinar on Jan 27, 2021:
Professor Amartya Sen speaks on ‘Bangabandhu & Visions of Bangladesh’ to commemorate the Birth Centenary (2020–21) of the Founding Father of Bangladesh Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
This event is in collaboration with the Bangladesh High Commission in the United Kingdom.
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Professor Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate, is Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics & Philosophy, Harvard University. (…)

StudsTerkel Radio Archive · Simone de Beauvoir talks with Studs Terkel on WFMT ; 1960/05/04

India: Minister for Communications and IT Ravi Shankar Prasad unveiled new policies for the regulation of social media and over-the-top (OTT) platforms. A Faye D’Souza investigates the topic with Menaka Guruswamy (Feb 26, 2021)

Accidental Death of an Anarchist is a 1970 play by Italian playwright Dario Fo. It was written in response to the death of Giuseppi (Pino) Pinelli, an anarchist who died while in police custody for questioning about a bombing in which he played no part. The famous 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing took place in Milan, Italy, in December 1969, at the end of a tumultuous decade. The two main political parties in Italy at the time were the Christian Democrats and the Italian Communists, with (…)

(Socialist History seminar - Institute of Historical Research, UCL)

Vox’s Sean Illing talks to Yale professor and author Jason Stanley about why American democracy provides such fertile soil for fascism, how Donald Trump demonstrated how easy it was for our country to flirt with a fascist future and what we can do about it.