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When the February revolution broke out in Russia, Lenin found himself stranded in Zurich, in neutral Switzerland. The only way home was through Germany, and so the exiled and Bolshevik leader, acting through a slimy intermediary (Swiss socialist Robert Grimm approached the German Ambassador to Switzerland to open negotiations, but it was Grimm’s compatriot Fritz Platten, who brokered the final agreement to allow Lenin and others exiles to travel by train through Germany to neutral Sweden.), (…)

Bola Sete was a celebrated Brazilian guitarist

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)