The Good Soldier Švejk is an unfinished satirical novel by Czech writer Jaroslav Hašek, published in 1921–1923, about a good-humored, simple-minded man who appears to be enthusiastic to serve Austria-Hungary in World War I. When the interrogator proceeds to enumerate the crimes of which he is supposedly guilty, Švejk accepts them with the same disarming… Read More Švejk is Reborn in India
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer comes a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a bold call for expansive political solidarity. The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures Born in war-ravaged Vietnam, Viet Nguyen arrived in the United States as a child refugee in 1975. The Nguyen family would… Read More Viet Thanh Nguyen -To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other
Philip Oltermann In a new book, German artist and writer Philipp Ruch argues that viewing the ascent of Hitler’s NSDAP through the prism of the Third Reich has distorted our understanding of fascism’s electoral breakthrough With your art collective Centre for Political Beauty you famously built a replica of the Holocaust memorial on a property… Read More ‘Hitler was a lazy criminal who slept in until noon’: why most of what we think we know about the rise of the Nazis is wrong
RSS Ideology Launching पर Sanjay Singh की दमदार Speech Saffron Shadows: The RSS, A Century of Influence is a newly released anthology edited by writer and social activist Leher Sethi that examines the century-long journey and polarizing impact of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). +++++++++++ Rahul Gandhi defamation case: Savarkar’s grandson admits Nathuram, Gopal Godse… Read More Sanjay Singh’s Speech on the ideology of the RSS
Secondhand booksellers believe they may have been caught up in the AI supply chain that sees old books scanned then destroyed Stephanie Convery Sometimes books tell you more than the content,” says Tim White, as he lines up carefully dust-jacketed books and pamphlets in plastic sleeves on temporary shelves in Melbourne University’s Wilson Hall. He’s… Read More Australian booksellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI
NB: Sumit Sarkar was one of the most remarkable and inspiring teachers I had in my university days. He was always developing his craft, exploring fresh approaches, and encouraged his students to do the same. All that a good teacher should be, he will be remembered not only for his intellectual brilliance, but also for… Read More History as craft
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)
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
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
Adam Tooze Chartbook 472 As I was contemplating the lily, a thin blue ray of light flashed on the vineyard road below and groped its way over the slopes. Then I heard an automobile stop at the main gate. Although we were not expecting guests, I went down to the gate … and there I… Read More Neo-Burgundian technocracy: Ernst Jünger’s reckoning with nihilism
