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30. 05. 2019
Story Time in Kerala
By Rubin DCruzOn a warm evening in 1972, when I was five years old and living in a village by the sea—Puthenthope in Thiruvananthapuram—I accompanied my cousin to our village library. The librarian gave me a
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Check out the May Day Bookstore, with its fabulous collection of books. Next door is the theatre space Studio Safdar, created by Jana Natya Manch
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It’s May Day!
Yes, it’s that day again! The day we salute workers’ struggles. The day of solidarity. And as India votes, the day ...
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In the first years after the 1917 Russian revolution, a bold new cry was heard around the world, ‘Liberate the Colonies!’ It was voiced in Moscow by Marxists combating tsarist oppression of Asi...
Challenges to Indian Fiscal Federalism
T.M. Thomas Isaac, Lekha Chakraborty, R. Mohan
The principle of fiscal federalism enshrined in India’s Constitution is under severe strain today.
This book is a key addition to understanding the challenges involved. The authors captur...
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) – a workers' and peasants'
state – lasted a mere seventy years. It has been gone for a quarter of a
century.
Existing socialist sta...
भारतीय समाज और राजनीति को जिन घटनाओं ने सबसे ज्यादा बदला, उनमें मंडल कमीशन ...
A. Mangai, A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, A. C. Bradley
The Freedom Theatre is one of the most remarkable institutions in occupied Palestine, and indeed the world. Nestled in Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, the theatre has faced attacks, threats, i...
In 2006, a freedom fighter,an actor, a nurse, and a musician came together to set up a theatre in the midst of Jenin Refugee Camp in occupied Palestine. Called the Freedom Theatre,it was created at...
Jayati Ghosh, C.P. Chandrasekhar
The explicit adoption of a neoliberal reform programme in mid-1991 by the Indian government was the start of a period of intensive economic liberalization and changed attitudes towards government i...
Vijay Prashad, Eve Ensler, Danish Husain, Burhan Sönmez, Ninotchka Rosca
This small book is a collection of fables.
Four brilliant artists and writers confront four strongmen.
Eve Ensler, the American playwright (The Vagina Monologues), goes beneath the ...
The Warli Adivasi Revolt in Thane district of Maharashtra from 1945 onwards was a historic event. It was part of the massive post-Second World War and pre-Independence peasant struggles in various ...
The Armchair Revolutionary and Other Sketches
Available as e-book here.
With a special Prologue by actor and filmmaker Nandita Das. Cover artwork by Ayaz Jokhio.
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The antagonism between liberalism and democratic processes is increasingly visible amidst the contradictions of capitalist globalization today. This is seen in authoritarian measures being adopted ...
Whither Rural India? Political Economy of Agrarian Transformation in Contemporary India
Lenin on the Agrarian Question
A poetic evocation of the act of reading, a provocation for non-readers, a sparkling soliloquy for avid readers, and a philosophical reflection on what we call literature, Why Read? ...
Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary contains over 100 essays on transformative initiatives and alternatives to the currently dominant processes of globalized development, including its...
For well over a decade, there has been a battle going on in India, as old divisions and inequalities have become deeper. Since 2014, this battle has reached a feverish pitch with the combined...
Mohammed Akhlaq and Rakbar lynched in the name of cow protection.
Chimma, a Dalit, lynched by the mob for entering a Hindu temple.
In recent years, the cases o...
The postscript briefly updates the conceptual, theoretical and policy analyses which overviews how vast dramatic depravities grip India's democracy, development and human rights record in the...
Subhash Gatade focuses on the right wing thrust in Indian polity during the first decade of the 21st century. His writings show that the ultra-right and Hindu nationalist political formations...
On Communalism and Globalization
In three celebrated lectures, extensively re-worked since they were delivered first, Prof. Aijaz Ahmad dis...
Vivan Sundaram Is Not a Photographer
In this book, Ruth Rosengarten considers the expanded field of the ‘photographic’ in the work of Indian artist Vivan Sundaram, beginning with the notion that Sundaram is not a photographer in a...
Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd writes with passionate anger, laced with sarcasm, on the caste system and Indian society. He looks at the socioeconomic and cultural differences between the Dalit-Bahujans an...
Dario Azzellini, Immanuel Ness
From the dawning of the industrial epoch, wage earners have organized themselves into unions,
fought bitter strikes, and gone so far as to challenge the very premises of the system by creating...
Freedom remains bitterly contested in Independent India. Democracy works only for some, who thrive in its liberties, security and choice. Others are condemned to life-sentences variously of hunger,...
Identifying capitalism as a system of privately owned corporations, this book envisions an alternative, more equitable form of economic organization within a democracy. Challenging the current syst...
