January 2012
4 posts
“Katherine Boo points out in her new book Behind the Beautiful Forevers, a...”
– Indians Against Democracy by Pankaj Mishra | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
“Liberal-capitalist societies, being by their nature divided, contentious places,...”
– Religion for Atheists by Alain de Botton - review | Books | The Guardian
“These are not proletarian protests, but protests against the threat of being...”
– You Pay Your Crisis: Slavoj Žižek: The Revolt of the Salaried Bourgeoisie
Why Should Men Care? An Interview With Matt Damon
fuckyeahfeminists:
At Bitch Flicks, they’re featuring reviews of the five-part PBS documentary Women, War & Peace. Matt Damon narrates the documentary series, and he was interviewed about his participation. During the interview, he explains why he wanted to be a part of the event and why men should care about how war impacts women, especially when rape is used as a weapon of war.
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December 2011
5 posts
““when the Congress appeared to consider Jinnah’sdemand for what had come...”
– Partition and Minority Rights in Punjabi Hindu Debates, 1920-47
“ Tbilisi was the capital of Transcaucasia, a region
whose beautifully contrived...”
– http://www.slavsandtatars.com/MOLLA.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavs_and_Tatars
“Kishanji’s daring is not ‘speaking truth to power’, in postmodern...”
– Kishanji: Not Just Another ‘Martyr’ at Sanhati
Leon Trotsky: If American Should Go Communist →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
Should America go communist as a result of the difficulties and problems that your capitalist social order is unable to solve, it will discover that communism, far from being an intolerable bureaucratic tyranny and individual regimentation, will be the means of greater individual liberty and shared abundance.
Most Americans have been misled by the fact that in the USSR...
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November 2011
2 posts
“‘There is perhaps no issue on which we are such hypocrites as caste; nor any...”
– Scholars without Borders: Ground Realities
“If “The Second Sex” can’t be squared with the life, we are reduced to the final,...”
– Stand By Your Man : The New Yorker
October 2011
4 posts
“the seduction lay in the notion that today, only the low-life, the vagabond, the...”
– Ishqiya
“Laws serve to protect the privileges of the wealthy and powerful; obeying them...”
– CrimethInc. Far East Blog » Dear Occupiers: A Letter from Anarchists
“It’s a great disservice to everything that is happening here that the only thing...”
– www.outlookindia.com | Arundhati Roy Replies…
“When he talked about “the white man,” he really meant Americans. The...”
– Heading South (2005) - Memorable quotes
September 2011
8 posts
“The Thorners consistently maintained that India was undergoing a revolution...”
– Alice Thorner (1918–2005) :: Monthly Review
2 tags
“Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely...”
– Noam Chomsky
(via wine-loving-vagabond)
2 tags
8 tags
“These weird alliances confront Europe’s Muslims with a difficult choice:...”
– Defenders of the Faith - New York Times
“if the space of emancipatory politics is defined by a distance towards the...”
– n 1: On Zizek and the London Riots
“She has been to prison for attempted murder; she needs no Baudrillard to tell...”
– Review “Our Lady of Alice Bhatti”
“If ‘pornography is the attempt to insult sex,’ as D H Lawrence suggested in his...”
– Spanking words
August 2011
1 post
“1. Marxism has tended to be a theoretical or analytical
discourse about...”
– Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
June 2011
4 posts
“It is of consummate importance to the Emotional Graph of the film, that you...”
– Arundhati Roy on Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen
“It was the East Europeans, people such as Luxemburg, who tended to cause...”
– Letters Of Rosa Luxemburg Reviewed By Timothy Snyder | The New Republic
“a scientific Marxist understanding of society proved that the revolution was...”
– Letters Of Rosa Luxemburg Reviewed By Timothy Snyder | The New Republic
“While Sindhis and Balochis have mostly composed songs of rebellion, Punjabi...”
– Pakistan’s General Problem | OPEN Magazine
May 2011
1 post
“The CPM today presents itself as possibly one of the most hidebound conservative...”
– Old Left is Dying! Long Live the Left! « Kafila
July 2010
1 post
“the body is the soul. The body is all you have. It is the body that creates, the...”
– Known Turf: A voice, like a call.
May 2010
2 posts
“Programming is an embarrassment compared to other fields of engineering and...”
– Mea Culpa
“Science is helpless and covers up this helplessness with a deceptive screen of...”
– New Statesman - Joe Public v the volcano
April 2010
1 post
“The left’s rout was consummated in the ’90s by Bill Clinton, who managed to...”
– Fifty Years After Greensboro, Whatever Happened to the American Left? : Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture
March 2010
1 post
“It’s convenient to forget that tribal people in Central India have a history of...”
– A Rendezvous with the Maoists, and other links « a reader’s words
January 2010
1 post
“We procrastinate because we are afraid. We’re afraid it’s too much work and that...”
– Do It Now (Aaron Swartz’s Raw Thought)
October 2009
1 post
“Threads are out. You can use processes, or async/events, or both processes and...”
– I like Unicorn because it’s Unix
September 2009
2 posts
“So, let’s imagine how [the September 11th attacks] could have been worse for...”
– 1973 Chilean coup d’état - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Hindutva really means, as understood by its advocates, conformity to the idea...”
– 513 Ganesh Devy: Tribal voice and violence
August 2009
4 posts
“On a global level and with constant value, military expenses have doubled in the...”
– The empire and the robots @ The Hindu
“There are things to learn from Cuba about healthcare and basic education, not...”
– www.outlookindia.com | “I Prefer To Fight Today’s Battles”
“The improvement of medicine would eventually prolong human life, but improvement...”
– Poverty and English Language [PDF]
“Hinduism is very pliable. It rationalizes inequality: if that guy is poor it’s...”
– Jabberwock: A link and some rambling
July 2009
1 post
June 2009
2 posts
“It is a no-win for the state[read left front]. If its forces do not arrive, the...”
– The siege of red fort- Hindustan Times
“Thus the Mughal empire collapsed not because of the dogmatic religious policy of...”
– http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1180333.cms
April 2009
3 posts
“In many parts of the state, even in small restaurants, there is a ‘two-tumbler’...”
– Caste and politics in Andhra: why these elections matter
“The villages did not exist “from times immemorial”. The advance of plough-using...”
– D.D. Kosambi: Kosambi, Marxism and Indian History
“what had been his greatest difficulty since Independence. Nehru replied:...”
– Tehelka - India’s Independent Weekly News Magazine
March 2009
3 posts
“The subjugation of women. As women were once used as “trophies of...”
– The Theory of the Leisure Class - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
