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rw wrote 2 months ago: A very comprehensive essay on The Dreyfus Affair that split French opinion in the 1890s- 1900s. … more →

Tags: Literature, Politics

World Trade Center circa 1997

rw wrote 2 months ago: This picture was taken from the top of the Empire State Building in 1997. The Statue of Liberty is a … more →

Tags: 9/11, New York City, World Trade Center

Reading, of late1 comment

rw wrote 5 months ago: Of late, I have been reading the way I like to-  a handful of books at the same time. Some of t … more →

Tags: caste, dalit

Links2 comments

rw wrote 10 months ago: Dr Chamal Lal has a collection of some of the favourite Urdu couplets of Bhagat Singh, including a p … more →

Tags: Pakistan, punjab, Poetry, India, Urdu, History, Marx, Farid, films

Gaza Links4 comments

rw wrote 10 months ago: Sam provides a quick summary of events leading to the invasion of Gaza Strip by Israel: Far more omi … more →

Tags: War, Palestine, Gaza, Israel

Book Links4 comments

rw wrote 1 year ago: There has been a hiatus on this blog as far as books are concerned. Part of the reason is the great … more →

Tags: Books, Punjabi

Ghalib in the 21st Century and other links1 comment

rw wrote 1 year ago: Amit Basole has a fascinating series of posts analyzing Mirza Ghalib’s couplets where he not s … more →

Tags: Urdu, Poetry, India, Urdu Poetry, Ghalib

Special EPW Issue on DD Kosambi2 comments

rw wrote 1 year ago: This week’s EPW is a special issue focused on DD Kosambi. I will upload the articles later to … more →

Tags: History, Kosambi, DD Kosambi, Indian History

A Murder in Asom and other links3 comments

rw wrote 1 year ago: Aruni Kashyap writes on the brutal murder of a local CPI leader by the Asom Police, an incident that … more →

Tags: Agriculture, India, Globalization, assam, Asom, Culture

Tajmahal Ka Tender1 comment

rw wrote 1 year ago: An email alert from those good folks at IPTA, Mumbai announces the staging of the play Tajmahal ka T … more →

Tags: Drama, theatre, IPTA

Tamil Pulp Fiction1 comment

rw wrote 1 year ago: Mukul Kesavan in the Outlook in a superb review of an anthology of Tamil Pulp fiction, wonders why I … more →

Tags: Literature, India, Books, Tamil, pulp fiction

Occasional Links2 comments

rw wrote 1 year ago: Ghazala has a wonderful selection of poems about poetry. thoughts arrive not while writingwhile carr … more →

Tags: India, Urdu Poetry, Chingiz Aitamatov, development, Crime

Blogging as Medicine3 comments

rw wrote 1 year ago: Self-medication may be the reason the blogosphere has taken off. Scientists (and writers) have long … more →

Re- drawing the Poverty Line

rw wrote 1 year ago: A re- look at the “dollar a day” line for measuring poverty may increase the number of p … more →

Tags: China, poverty, Economics

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rw wrote 1 year ago: A selection of Chilean poet Marjorie Agosin’s poems at the The International Literary Quarterl … more →

Tags: 1968, Chile, communism, Left, Marxism, Painting, Poetry, rembrandt

European Left, Blogging Soviet life, Borges, Savi Savarkar, Discount Books2 comments

rw wrote 1 year ago: Former left wing dissident, Boris Kagarlitsky, assesses the changes in the European Left over the la … more →

Tags: Latin American Literature, dalit, Socialism, India, Books, Painting, Left, Blogging, Savi Savarkar

May 68, More on Behenji, Moderate Islam, New Wave Latin American Literature

rw wrote 1 year ago: The BBC’s Philosophy in the Streets recalls the last upheaval of the Left in the West. The poi … more →

Tags: Latin American Literature, dalit, Mayawati, Islam, Behenji, Biography, Garcia Marquez, tarek fatah

Introducing Occasional Links: Mayawati, Kafka, Urdu Poetry, Books, Publishing6 comments

rw wrote 1 year ago: I plan to have an occasional post with a round up of what I have been reading, will try and make it … more →

Tags: dalit, Poetry, Short Story, India, Books, Mayawati, Kanshi ram, kafka, Urdu

Caste, Class and Anti- Imperialism

rw wrote 1 year ago: Joseph D’souza reviews Anti- imperialism and Annihilation of Caste by Anand Telumbde. Teltumbd … more →

Tags: caste, Class, dalit, India


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