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इतिहास से साक्षात्कार की घड़ी;5 comments

apoorvanand wrote 1 week ago: लालगढ़ मुक्त कराया जा रहा है. पिछले आठ महीने से जिस इलाके में पश्चिम बंगाल की मार्क्सवादी सरकार क … more →

Tags: countryside, everyday life, Government, Violence & Conflict, नन्दीग्राम, लालगढ़, वाम मोर्चा

Requiem for a Movement6 comments

Aditya Nigam wrote 2 weeks ago: Current media discussions about Lalgarh seem to miss out one crucial fact: Till less than a month ag … more →

Tags: countryside, Movements, Violence & Conflict, Chhatradhar Mahato, Lalgarh, Maoists, NREGA

Where there is no police: Kumar Rana9 comments

apoorvanand wrote 2 weeks ago: This is a guest post by KUMAR RANA Where there is no police – what a wonderful state that woul … more →

Tags: Government, Mirror Worlds, Movements, Violence & Conflict, Khejuri, Kumar Rana, Lalgarh, Maoists, west bengal

Maoist Violence in Lalgarh, West Bengal, Must be Condemned15 comments

Aditya Nigam wrote 2 weeks ago: The inevitable has happened. As soon as the election results came out and the wall of fear collapsed … more →

Tags: Mirror Worlds, Movements, Violence & Conflict, Chhatisgarh, democracy, mass struggles, Nayagarh

Elementary Aspects of Popular Insurgency in West Bengal3 comments

Aditya Nigam wrote 3 weeks ago: Violence has erupted once again. This time in Khejuri – a place in the vicinity of Nandigram, … more →

Tags: Mirror Worlds, Politics, Violence & Conflict, CPI(M), Khejuri, Nandigram, Ranajit Guha, tmc

तिअनानमेन चौक, नन्दीग्राम और एक मक़्‍तूल सपना2 comments

Aditya Nigam wrote 1 month ago: [NB: To increase text size while reading, please press Ctrl+ or Ctrl++] कभी फ़ैज़ अहमद फ़ैज़ ने ‘स … more →

Tags: Debates, Violence & Conflict, Politics

Chinese memories3 comments

Ravi Sundaram wrote 1 month ago: Suddenly the other day, on the 3 of June 2009, in a bizarre flash of memory I went back two decades … more →

Tags: bad ideas, Violence & Conflict, Movements, Marxism, China, 1989, Tiananmen Square Massacre

Lakshman Seth and the Sheriff of Nandigram: Raghu Karnad1 comment

Aditya Nigam wrote 1 month ago: NOTES FROM NANDIGRAM This is a guest post by RAGHU KARNAD May 17, 2009 Beauty is all about the detai … more →

Tags: everyday life, Politics, Violence & Conflict, CPI(M), CRPF, Elections, Nandigram

The Collapse of Hegemony: Kumar Rana

apoorvanand wrote 1 month ago: [This is a guest post by KUMAR RANA. Kumar Rana is an activist and works with Pratichi] At last, aft … more →

Tags: Frontiers, countryside, Politics, muslims, CPI(M), west bengal, Kumar Rana

वाम के खिलाफ अवाम: ईश्वर दोस्त24 comments

Aditya Nigam wrote 1 month ago: This is a guest post by ISHWAR DOST. Ishwar is a Left activist and journalist. He works with Jansatt … more →

Tags: bad ideas, Debates, Politics, नन्दीग्राम, माकपा, द्वन्द्ववाद, नवउदारवाद, ईश्वर दोस्त

When Buddha Did Not Smile: Monobina Gupta

Aditya Nigam wrote 1 month ago: This is a guest post by MONOBINA GUPTA Buddhadeb with a laterally inverted Tata as backdrop, cour … more →

Tags: Debates, Government, Politics, CPM, Elections: 2009, Left Front, UPA, west bengal

Vaikom Viswan and Little Bo-Peep4 comments

jdevika wrote 1 month ago: If I weren’t aware of Kerala’s more vibrant political past,I’d have died laughing … more →

Tags: capitalism, Centre watch, ecologies, Identities, Politics, CPM Kerala, Kerala Elections 2009, Pinarayi Vijayan, V S Achuthanandan

The Commissar in his Labyrinth64 comments

Aditya Nigam wrote 1 month ago: Prakash Karat, Gen Sec, CPI(M), photo courtesy The Hindu Look carefully at this grey, arrogant and h … more →

Tags: bad ideas, Politics, JNU, Prakash Karat

जारी है 'जनपक्षीय हिंसा' का तान्डव

apoorvanand wrote 1 month ago: खबर मिली है कि छत्तीसगढ़ में माओवादी हमले में ग्यारह से ज़्यादा पुलिस के जवान मारे गए हैं. इस महीने ऐ … more →

Tags: Violence & Conflict, Politics, छत्तीसगढ़, माओवादी, कम्युनिस्ट आंदोलन

Lalgarh, Media and the Maoists: Monobina Gupta2 comments

Aditya Nigam wrote 2 months ago: Guest Post by MONOBINA GUPTA [As this report is filed, reports have come in that the CPI-M has final … more →

Tags: Frontiers, Government, Movements, Politics, CPI (M), democracy, Elections, Monobina Gupta, Santhal uprising

The Tragedy of Politics in Sri Lanka9 comments

Ahilan Kadirgamar wrote 2 months ago: I am posting below an article that I wrote with Cenan Pirani.  The shorter version of this article i … more →

Tags: Debates, Identities, Movements, Politics, Violence & Conflict, LTTE, political solution, Solidarity, Sri Lanka

Evangelist Zizek and the End of Philosophy - II23 comments

Aditya Nigam wrote 3 months ago: Idea of communism? Courtesy Oscar’s global blog Today was the third and final day of the … more →

Tags: capitalism, Debates, Empire, Theory, Alain Badiou, Antonio Negri, Idea of Communism, Jacques Rancière, Judith Balso

Re-booting Communism Or Slavoj Zizek and the End of Philosophy - I25 comments

Aditya Nigam wrote 3 months ago: Zizek - the postmodern Lenin? Today, 13 March, a whole galaxy of philosophers and theorists got toge … more →

Tags: capitalism, Debates, Empire, Frontiers, Movements, Theory, Alain Badiou, Idea of Communism, Marxism

Save the left from left scholars2 comments

prashantjha wrote 3 months ago: I have just returned from an atrocious talk delivered by a famous Nepal expert, David Seddon, who cl … more →

Tags: bad ideas, Debates, CK Lal, David Seddon, Federalism, Identity Politics, left scholars, nepal


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