South Asia Citizens Web

With the stopping of Rushdie’s visit to Calcutta, the city finally completes its downfall to a spirit-crippled provincial town

Yes, the dominant political culture of the left had been marked in the 19th and 20th centuries by practices based on the hierarchical vertical organization of parties, trade unions and associations. In the circumstances of the period the movements they stimulated – radical and reformist social transformations, revolutions, national liberations – transformed the world, in a direction generally favourable to the working classes.

Akeel Bilgrami is outraged at the way Nandy was portrayed on the Communalism Watch [a SACW sister site] but his own remarks betray a clubbiness that is the hallmark of many of Nandy’s defenders.

The Roots of Political Conflict in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh - By Shapan Adnan (December 2012).

‘Bhuladia’ is not the name of a factory. It is a sickness of the ruling class. Somewhat different from Alzheimer’s disease, it is more selective in choosing what must be forgotten and what must be remembered. A ‘bhuladia’ patient is predisposed to forgetting the insignificant and the ordinary, while remembering the rich and the powerful.