Author: Dilip

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Kartavya Path: ask not what Modi can do for you… ask what you can do for Modi’s India

SHEKHAR GUPTA What Modi has been doing there is putting the monkey on the citizen’s back, by shifting the definition of the constitutional state from the government’s duties to the citizen. The rights, as Mahatma Gandhi said he’d tell you, will automatically follow. To understand this better, you need to Google the 42nd Amendment to… Read More Kartavya Path: ask not what Modi can do for you… ask what you can do for Modi’s India

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Against Authenticity

To be human is to be artificial Bo Winegard The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.~Oscar Wilde That we should not lie is generally sound advice, though few of us are able to navigate life without uttering or affirming… Read More Against Authenticity

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Karl Marx in the Anthropocene: the post-capitalist, green manifesto captivating Japan

Justin McCurry  “It is broadly about what’s going on in the world … about the climate crisis and what we should do about it,” Saito said in an interview with the Guardian. “I advocate for degrowth and going beyond capitalism.” Kohei Saito’s book Capital in the Anthropocene has become an unlikely hit among young people… Read More Karl Marx in the Anthropocene: the post-capitalist, green manifesto captivating Japan

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Book review: Chronicles of the Champaran Satyagraha

The Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 brought the miseries of the region’s peasants to official notice. A volume of 165 testimonies of peasants translated into English is revealing of their wretched lives, but many aspects of the struggle remain unexplored and there remain gaps in our understanding. MOHAMMAD SAJJAD Thumb Printed: Champaran Indigo Peasants Speak to… Read More Book review: Chronicles of the Champaran Satyagraha

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Book review: Conceptualizing an Emancipatory Alternative: Peter Hudis reviews István Mészáros’s ‘Beyond Capital’

First posted June 29, 2016 It is no exaggeration to say that with 1989 a long historical phase – the one initiated by the October Revolution of 1917 – came to its end. From now on, whatever might be the future of socialism, it will have to be established on radically new foundations, beyond the… Read More Book review: Conceptualizing an Emancipatory Alternative: Peter Hudis reviews István Mészáros’s ‘Beyond Capital’

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World on brink of five ‘disastrous’ climate tipping points, study finds

The climate crisis has driven the world to the brink of multiple “disastrous” tipping points, according to a major study. It shows five dangerous tipping points may already have been passed due to the 1.1C of global heating caused by humanity to date. These include the collapse of Greenland’s ice cap, eventually producing a huge sea level rise,… Read More World on brink of five ‘disastrous’ climate tipping points, study finds

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