In the realm of intellectual pursuits, scholars often leave an enduring imprint, even silently, on the socio-cultural landscape that transcends their mortal existence. One such exemplary soul who departed from our midst a quarter of a century ago was...
By Mahdi Blaine
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As a child in the 1960s, my mother would routinely pass a secondary school on her way home in downtown Algiers named Lycée Frantz Fanon. To her, the name was...
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...
By Rainer Forst
On June 18, Jürgen Habermas, who has had a lasting impact on the humanities and social sciences at Goethe University, turns 95, and our academic community, of which he is still an active member, sends its warmest...
Robert F. Barsky
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Noam Chomsky, one of the world’s most famous and respected intellectuals, will be 96 years old on Dec. 7, 2024. For more than...
Aijaz Ahmad (1941-2022) died at home on March 9, surrounded by his books and papers, and by the warmth of his children and his friends.
Born in Muzaffarnagar, in British India, Aijaz read extensively from an early age and allowed...
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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...
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...
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Nelson Mandela is deified everywhere. But typically missing is an account of his early years, when he insisted that Marxism be responsive to South African conditions.
In the extensive mythologizing of Nelson...
By KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD
June 25 is the 92nd birth anniversary of the almost forgotten Mandal Messiah
On June 25, a celebration meeting of V. P. Singh’s 92 birth anniversary meeting has been planned by several pro-social justice organisations at the...
