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Prashad George W. Bush has a cat named India. In New Delhi, about thirty activists of the Hindu Right’s political formation, the…
Vijay Prashad
Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, editor, and journalist. He is a writing fellow and chief correspondent at Globetrotter. He is an editor of LeftWord Books and the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He is a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China. He has written more than 20 books, including The Darker Nations and The Poorer Nations. His latest books are Struggle Makes Us Human: Learning from Movements for Socialism and (with Noam Chomsky) The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power. Tings Chak is the art director and a researcher at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and lead author of the study “Serve the People: The Eradication of Extreme Poverty in China.” She is also a member of Dongsheng, an international collective of researchers interested in Chinese politics and society.
Prashad A few years ago I traveled around rural West Bengal to study the gains made by the Left Front government, notably…
Nuclear Force treaty (where the Soviets had to eliminate 1280 warheads, while the US had to remove only 429), but also by…
Prashad I hate authority. Whenever I’m in front of someone with power, and if I feel alone, I get awkward and silly.…
people would like to say that only a few bad apples do not condemn the entire orchard: but we are not talking…
[Adapted from Dean Shirley Newman’s Lecture Series (Facing Up to History: Racism’s Pasts and Presence) at the University of Michigan, 22 March…
Vijay Prashad Magical Realism is an Indian habitus discovered accidentally by Latin American fiction. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, may his recent illness be…
classes and nations. In far-off India, on the 26th of January, the anniversary of the Indian Republic, the Earth shook. Scientists said…
Vijay Prashad For two weeks in December 2000, almost all of the 600,000 postal workers in India struck work, on behalf of…
Vijay Prashad All the men are computer programmers, all the women are beauty queens, and some of us are humorless. So it…