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• Romila Thapar on the history of dissent and how it shaped Hinduism and India
  9 October 2021

  As a historian I would say that what my generation of historians has been trying to combat, and which has been revived in the last few years, is two things: one is the insistence on converting Indian history into largely the history of the majority community; and two, a constant dismissal of incorporating into the study of history new information from various sources and new methods of inquiry and analysis.

• USSR: Nomads and Soviet Rule: Central Asia under Lenin and Stalin. An Interview with Author
  7 January 2022, by siawi3

  How Soviet policy was informed by both an anti-colonial spirit and an imperialist impulse, by nationalism as well as communism, and above all by a lethal self-confidence in the Communist Party’s ability to transform the lives of nomads and harness the agricultural potential of their landscape.

• Histoire algérienne de la France : Une centralité refoulée, de 1962 à nos jours
  15 octobre 2022, par siawi3

  Pour comprendre la France contemporaine, il est nécessaire de se confronter, enfin, à la question algérienne. Les crispations et tensions des dernières décennies ont souvent pris la forme de polémiques aussi violentes que stériles autour de l’identité, l’immigration, le colonial, l’islam ou la sexualité.

• Tell no lies, claim no easy victories�: Remembering Am�lcar Cabral
  16 September 2020, by siawi3

  96 years after the birth of revolutionary Am�lcar Cabral, his life, struggle and contributions continue to guide us.

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  30 avril 2021, par siawi3
• « Twist à Bamako » : Robert Guédiguian et les idéaux révolutionnaires déçus
  7 janvier 2022, par siawi3

  Les idéaux révolutionnaires qui se fracassent contre la réalité. Les principes émancipateurs qui, progressivement, deviennent des diktats liberticides… « Cette histoire de jeunes gens idéalistes qui veulent créer un État socialiste après l’indépendance tout en dansant le twist et le rock’n’roll ressemble à ma propre histoire raconte-t-il. Si Bamako ou Marseille en modifie la forme, le fond est strictement identique. »

• The head scarf, modern Turkey, and me.
  28 January 2022, by siawi3

  This isn’t a scientific study; I didn’t try it multiple times, or measure anything. All I have is my subjective impression, which is this: walking through the city with a head scarf was a completely different experience. People were so much nicer. Nobody looked away when I approached. I felt less jostled; men seemed to step aside, to give me more room. - But what was so great about freedom? What was so great about being a journalist ? Travelling alone, especially as a woman, especially in a patriarchal culture, can be really stressful. It can make you question the most basic priorities around which your life is arranged.

• Haiti’s Toussaint Louverture: The first black superhero of the modern age
  3 January 2021, by siawi3

  Black Spartacus: This biography of revolutionary leader Toussaint Louverture could not be more timely.

• Pakistan: Don�t tear down statues
  28 June 2020, by siawi3

  Left-liberals in the West should ponder the effects of effacing historical symbols as Pakistan-India have. Every civilisation is the legacy of wars, conquests, and brutality. Even the cleverest surgery cannot cut out these bitter legacies without killing the patient.

• Kim Philby remembered: A traitor to his class
  7 January 2022, by siawi3

  In the usually dark world of secret agents, Philby was one of the bright examples who betrayed his own class and served the people of the Soviet Union and the world’s proletariat. Just for “betraying” the interests of British imperialism, Philby should be regarded as a hero for the working class people.

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