Pankaj Dhar ChoudhuryonNovember 15, 2025 HISTORICAL MATERIALISM A thank you note from the organisers of the 2025 Historical Materialism London Conference! Dear comrades, A huge thanks to all the…
Pankaj Dhar ChoudhuryonNovember 9, 2025 জাতি সমস্যার সমাধান ও প্রসঙ্গ ভারত–জীবেশ সরকার নভেম্বর বিপ্লবের আগেই ১৯১৩ সালে স্তালিনের লেখা প্রবন্ধ “জাতি সমস্যা ও মাকর্সবাদ” পাঠ করে লেনিন লেখক স্তালিনকে ‘বিস্ময়কর…
Pankaj Dhar ChoudhuryonNovember 6, 2025 How Bollywood shaped Zohran Mamdani’s win; NYC’s first ‘filmy’ mayor just lived out his own Mira Nair script New York City’s first South Asian mayor, Zohran Mamdani, is also Bollywood’s first political heir abroad. Here’s how cinema…
Pankaj Dhar ChoudhuryonNovember 6, 2025 In Mamdani’s New York win, India’s Nehru finds an echo Soutik Biswas India correspondent “A moment comes but rarely in history when we step out from the old to the new,” Zohran Mamdani…
Pankaj Dhar ChoudhuryonNovember 6, 2025 A Brief History of American Socialism Michael Kazin on the Socialism’s Far-Reaching Influence on American Thought Michael Kazin on the Socialism’s Far-Reaching Influence on…
Pankaj Dhar ChoudhuryonOctober 18, 2025 Love, marriage and masalas: The Indian experience in 1970s Soviet Union Soviet Communists celebrate the 55th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1972 at the Red Square in Moscow. | TASS/AFP In 1972,…
Pankaj Dhar ChoudhuryonOctober 13, 2025 The Bolivian intelligence officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Quintanilla Pereira ordered the removal of Guevara’s hands after his execution in 1967. Picture : Collected Roberto Quintanilla from Wikipedia @freemang2001gmail-com
Pankaj Dhar ChoudhuryonOctober 13, 2025 When a Taliban minister invokes Tagore’s ‘Kabuliwala’: An Afghan imagines the poet’s quiet response An Indian woman ties a rakhi on the wrist of an Afghan national on Raksha Bandhan in Kolkata in August 2021, days after the Taliban seized…
Pankaj Dhar ChoudhuryonSeptember 26, 2025 Nepal’s ‘Gen Z revolt’ is taking Sri Lanka’s path of relative calm to restoring democracy The Himalayan country’s military has not tried to seize control, unlike in Bangladesh where the army is trying to call the shots and political…