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...
Noam Chomsky with David Barsamian, “Chronicles of Dissent” Interview Transcript
June 16, 2022. TomDispatch.
(Photo: Balaji Narasimhan) From Old Files
Can you even remember when it began? Doesn’t it seem like forever? And the timing — if forever can even be said...
N. Jose ChanderThe author, former Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kerala, and colleague of Prof K Raman Pillai—who passed away on 9 April—recollects their joint travel to Europe in mid 1980s. Dr. Jose Chander, who officiated as...
“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:...
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...
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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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...
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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...
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...
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...
