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This pamphlet was published by The Communist Party of India in 1968. It has long been out of print and now been digitsed by sacw.net rare document archive for educational and non commercial use

This 1968 paper by Polish Marxist by Leszek Kolakowski appeared in English via the The New Left Reader edited by Carl Oglesby in 1969.

To whom did the bulk of the Rs 1,200 crore of public money go? This is all information that should be in the public sphere but isn’t- the Sabarmati Riverfront Development Project is forbiddingly opaque.

There’s seems to be a need to bring back a ‘glorious past’, a call back to times gone by when India was on top of the world, so to speak. A character in BBC’s 90s show Goodness Gracious Me is called Mr. Everything Comes From India — where he says everything from Cliff Richards, William Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, most English words, the British royal family, Superman and even Jesus came from India. The only notable exception was Prince Charles, whose ears “make him African”.

The Gujarat government has introduced nine new books this academic year for classes 1 to 12. These books, written by Hindu nationalist ideologues, have been delivered to 42,000 elementary schools across the state free of cost.