There is widespread belief that even though capitalism in its initial phase may bring much misery to the people through unleashing a process of primitive accumulation of capital that leads to dispossession and pauperization of petty producers, it makes up…
It is a privilege for me to deliver the first lecture on social deprivation in memory of Shri T.G. Narayanan, who was such an eminent representative of socially responsible journalism before Independence, well known for investigating and reporting on the…
We propose to discuss in this paper, the Left-inspired and Left-led cultural movement in the erstwhile Andhra and Telangana regions of today’s Andhra Pradesh during the 1930s and 40s and up to the 1950s. The movement comprised of two broad…
During the l930s we notice a narrowing down of the gap between town and country, and between the world of the common people and the middle-class Oriya intelligentsia.1 What also needs to be emphasized is that many of the writers…
How does Timma come to share the mantle with an emperor who is widely acknowledged as the most powerful of the Rayas? If minting coins was an important expression of sovereignty, what does a commemorative coin with both the king’s…
Ideology, Theory and the Problem of Reality Historically, the term ‘ideology’ made its first appearance at the time of the French Revolution, its author, Antoine Destutt de Tracy, being one of the group of savants whom the Convention in 1795…
Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Perilous Passage: Mankind and the Global Ascendency of Capital, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, MD, 2005; paperback edition 2008. Capital and the capitalist economy have been striding the world for five centuries. Have they won its victory for…
Sugata Bose, His Majesty’s Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India’s Struggle against Empire, Penguin/Allen Lane, 2011, 388 pages, Rs 699. Subhas Chandra Bose is one of Indian history’s most enigmatic and emotive personalities. Yet, despite being so widely revered and…