Tag: Books and literature

The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin review – America can no longer run from its past (2019)

The idea of the frontier in US history has been one of endless promise, but the reality has involved violence, even genocide. As this powerful study argues, its latest incarnation is Trump’s wall Ben Ehrenreich It is hard, as an American, to take much pleasure in the irony that the past appears to be catching… Read More The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin review – America can no longer run from its past (2019)

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वंदे मातरम: आनंदमठ से हिंदू राष्ट्र तक: शुद्धब्रत सेनगुप्त #kadwicoffee

वंदे मातरम: आनंदमठ से हिंदू राष्ट्र तक संसद का एक पूरा सत्र बीत गया. शिक्षा, रोज़गार, महंगाई पर बात लगभग नहीं हुई. आख़िरी दिन एक क़ानून आया — वंदे मातरम का संपूर्ण पाठ न गाना अब ‘राष्ट्रीय अपमान’ के दायरे में है. कड़वी कॉफ़ी की इस कड़ी में कलाकार, लेखक और रक़्स मीडिया कलेक्टिव से… Read More वंदे मातरम: आनंदमठ से हिंदू राष्ट्र तक: शुद्धब्रत सेनगुप्त #kadwicoffee

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How Vasily Grossman Made Darkness Visible

The Soviet-Jewish writer bore eternal witness to the crimes of totalitarianism by Gary Saul Morson Vasily Grossman, the Russian-Jewish writer best known for the 1959 novel titled Life and Fate, has that book’s protagonist, Viktor Shtrum, express the view that the USSR is remarkably similar to its mortal enemy, Nazi Germany. Both are one-party states; both use… Read More How Vasily Grossman Made Darkness Visible

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UK’s collusion with Islamists ‘catastrophic’ (2010)

The author of Secret Affairs says that the past is returning ‘to haunt British policy in Afghanistan’ Mark Curtis; Secret Affairs: Britain’s Collusion With Radical Islam (2020) Richard Norton-Taylor British collusion with radical Islamist forces, including extremists who provided training camps for the leader of the 7/7 London suicide bombers and who are fomenting the… Read More UK’s collusion with Islamists ‘catastrophic’ (2010)

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‘A statement of freedom’: T-shirt slogan goes viral and book sales rocket in Taiwan after Hong Kong raids

Taiwanese people look on with concern at fate of Hong Kong’s independent booksellers, after series of arrests in recent months Amy Hawkins and Yu-chen Li in Taipei Walking out of one of Hong Kong’s last remaining independent bookstores, hands behind her back but head held high, the woman’s T-shirt was emblazoned with a simple slogan: “I am a bookstore… Read More ‘A statement of freedom’: T-shirt slogan goes viral and book sales rocket in Taiwan after Hong Kong raids

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