Harlem River talk to meTell me what you think aboutHarlem river I’m in love love love loveHarlem River talk to meWhere’ we headed nowHarlem River I’m in love love love loveAll because of you In my pearl and my diamond shoeI climbed a cloudNow i stole the moonHarlem RiverAll because of you And Harlem River… Read More Harlem River
Literature once filled in archival gaps by saying the unsayable. Now a younger generation is devising new modes of telling the story and finding new stories to tell. By Parul Sehgal Before it was an edict, and a death sentence, it was a rumor. To many, it must have seemed improbable; I imagine my grandmother, buying… Read More Seventy-five Years After Indian Partition
Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Dec 24 & Dec 31, 2022 Indian Economy & Banking Under the Sway of Global Capital | Arun Kumar Not Rooted in Public Culture, Hindutva is a Lone Militant | Radhakanta Barik Spread of 2020-21 Farmers Agitation in Haryana | Jaglan & Rajeshwari Bharat Jod Yatra is Evocative of the Spirit of Dandi… Read More Mainstream Double issue, December 31 2022
Dear Friends, Baragaon Weaves wishes you and your families a very Happy New Year. As always, in the New Year we offer you pure, exclusive and rare pashmina shawls, made by our handloom weavers in Kashmir. The pashmina yarn is hand spun, the way it is on a Gandhi Charkha; subsequently, the shawls are hand… Read More Pashmina Shawls on Discount
Zhang Daqian may not be a household name in the West, but in China — and the global art market at large — he is on par with the likes of Warhol and Monet. A master of classical Chinese painting who later reimagined modern art in his adopted American homeland, Zhang’s work spanned traditions from… Read More Chinese artist is outselling Van Gogh
Bharat Bhushan With the ascendance of Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda as Prime Minister of Nepal and India’s bete noir K P Sharma Oli playing king-maker, the Indian establishment has come a cropper in the Himalayan nation. It was betting the house on a favourite, Sher Bahadur Deuba, whose party, the Nepali Congress although short of majority… Read More Why India was blindsided in Nepal government formation
The Ukrainian writer Oksana Zabuzhko recalls a quote attributed to Otto von Bismarck: “Wars are not won by generals, but by schoolteachers and parish priests.” It’s a country’s taught collective memory, its shared sense of its own history, that are the decisive instruments for mobilisation, and are as important on the battlefield as weaponry. Few… Read More The revenge of history in Ukraine: year of war has shaken up world order
Following the Taliban’s ban on university education for girls, the male students in the country have boycotted their classes condemning the suspension of higher education for women, Tolo news reported on Sunday. The male students have put forward a strong opposition to attending classes until they are open for female students as well. “We will… Read More Male Afghan Students Boycott Classes, Protest Women’s Education Ban / ‘We are treated worse than animals’: Afghan women speak out against university ban
By Ramzy Baroud / MintPress News Nearly three decades after the signing of the Oslo Accords, Palestinians have achieved none of their basic political or legal rights. To the contrary, emboldened right-wing politicians in Israel are now speaking of unilateral ‘soft annexation’ of large parts of the West Bank. None of the issues deemed important in 1993 –… Read More On Palestine’s Looming Armed Revolt
The English novel at the end of the 19th century had a problem, and that problem was French. Emile Zola had thrown the first stone. In his 1875 manifesto, Le Roman Experimental, the prominent French novelist insisted that in order to survive the industrial age the novel would have to turn away from the charms of… Read More Why Turgenev Remains One of the Most Important Russian Writers
After the truth-shower 