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It was Martin Luther King, Jr. who famously said that “the function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.” This surely holds tremendous significance in higher education academia insofar as it...
Why V.R. Krishna Iyer Matters Today?
A travelling memory with V.R. Krishna Iyer—a maverick Indian jurist with an array of intellectual attributes—still remains fresh and keeps me awestruck even after two decades. In our conversation, he was sharing some nostalgic...
I still believe that bad theology can do harm, if not immediately, certainly in the long run…I am inclined to be more reticent and restrained while speaking about the mysteries of God’s revelation….I know theology is not divinity; to...
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ― Maya Angelou
Forty years back at the Kariavattom Campus, University of Kerala, Professor K. Raman Pillai (KRP) held out a truth in the middle of a lecture:...
Kodiyeri’s stature as a political leader surpassed all other qualifications. His organisational skill was amazing and the party work was his metier. Indeed, the massive gathering to pay last respects to him in his home town was a vindication of his immense popularity and undisputed valour and appeal.
Henry Kissinger (2022): Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy, New York: Penguin Press (Pp. 528).
Every society craves a credible, mature and patronal type of leadership. A leader who shapes the country and governs thy kind in the present in...
Writers speak the unspeakable and the closer you get to it, the more real it is, which is part of making life possible for those who come after - – Arthur Miller
Throughout his entire life, Noam Chomsky has used...
“Fascism is generating a social condition of fear and dreadful silence,” according to former Rajya Sabha MP and leader of Loktantrik Janata Dal. He was inaugurating the sesquicentennial anniversary (150th birthday) of Vakkom Moulavi, social reformer and founder of ‘Swadeshabhimani,’...
His presence in India was a source of extraordinary stimulus for the intellectual and political life on the Left in this country
Professor Aijaz Ahmad, who passed away on March 9, 2022, was a truly outstanding Marxist thinker of our...
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BY DAVID ROVICS
This may sound either arrogant or forgetful, but I could not possibly remember the number of times I was in the same room or at the same protest as Desmond Tutu. And...
