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Violence, whether in the form of war, genocide or terror, has often been presented as a tool of peace. But living in a continuous state of blood thirst, humankind is suffering tremendous psychological damage, making peace elusive.

For at least two decades, we have witnessed newer forms of misogyny that keep pace with the increasing individuation of Indian women. This has been difficult not only for men but also for some women to accept. Our contemporary visual culture is saturated with messages that teach us that sexualised violence and violent male sexuality is normal. Love is unidirectional, declared by men, and succumbed to or accepted by women.

An Indian woman, who wrote a popular memoir about her escape from the Taliban, has been shot dead in Afghanistan by suspected militants, police say.

Teesta Setalvad Lecture in Goa on "The Politics of Development" on Sunday 1 st September 2013. Organised by - Citizens Initiative for Communal Harmony (CICH) and Nature Education Society & Transformation(NEST)

Published in: [blue]Historical Materialism 21.2 (2013) 1–17blue]
The first appearance of the term ‘fictitious capital’ in Volume III of Capital is in the heading of Chapter 25 (‘Credit and Fictitious Capital’), yet curiously the term itself appears only twice in the main body of the chapter and on neither occasion is it Marx himself speaking. The first occasion is an excerpt from the Yorkshire banker Leatham who, as early as 1840, discusses the humungous circulation of bills of exchange, (…)