Mainstream Weeklyby Nandita Chaturvedi *
“An old world is dying, and a new one, kicking in the belly of its mother, time, announces that it is ready to be born. This birth will not be easy, and many of us are doomed to discover that we are exceedingly clumsy midwives. No matter, so long as we accept that our responsibility is to the newborn: the acceptance of responsibility contains the key to the necessarily evolving skill.”—James Baldwin, No Name in the Street
For the first time since the second world (…)
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As the US pushes for war in Eurasia, we must remember Romesh Chandra | Nandita Chaturvedi
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Book Review: A Pioneering Study on Tamil Migration | M R Narayan Swamy
17 February 2022, by M R Narayan SwamyTamil Migrants: A Demographic, Social and Economic Analysis by S. Irudaya Rajan, Bernard D’Sami; Samuel Asir Raj, P. Sivakumar
Orient BlackSwan 2021 Pages: 312; Price: Rs 1,095 ISBN: 9789354421266
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From the time of the imperial Cholas, Tamils have been migrating to distant shores for reasons of trade. Their destinations included Ceylon, Burma, Malaya, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia. British colonial rule led to more migration, this time as men and women from the poorest (…) -
Kirschenbaum on Oleksa Drachewych, Ian McKay, eds. Left Transnationalism
17 February 2022Reviewed by Lisa Kirschenbaum *
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Left Transnationalism: The Communist International and the National, Colonial, and Racial Questions
Oleksa Drachewych, Ian McKay, eds.
Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press
2020. 448 pp. $37.95 (paper)
ISBN 978-0-7735-5873-1.
Published on H-Diplo (November, 2020)
In 2017, centennial reevaluations of the October Revolution often emphasized the event’s lasting global impacts.[1] Left Transnationalism, published in 2019, coincides with (…) -
Biden dials back belligerence toward Russia | M K Bhadrakumar
17 February 2022, by M K BhadrakumarFeb. 13, 2022
The White House readout of US President Joe Biden’s conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday conveys the impression that its leitmotif was Washington’s threat of sanctions against Russia if it attacked Ukraine. But it is a hackneyed message that wouldn’t have taken more than a minute or two to convey. Yet, the conversation lasted “a bit over an hour.”
The Kremlin readout is still to be released, but Putin’s aide Yuri Ushakov gave a briefing to the (…) -
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