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Come back to Pleasure

Despite his image as the sober genius of high modernism, T.S. Eliot often speaks of art as essentially amusement. The poet, says Eliot, "would like to be something of a…

Chhattisgarh: The Future of India?

NANDINI SUNDAR Chhattisgarh: The Future of India? Interviewed by David Barsamian New Delhi, India  29 November 2009 Nandini Sundar is a professor of sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi…

Vortex in Bengal.

Violence in West Bengal's western districts has reached crisis proportions. Each day, one or more cadre member or sympathizer of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPM] is killed either…

Bad Sufi

The Bad Sufi A look at the practise of Contemporary Sufism in Pakistan.  It is often assumed that Sufism stands opposed to Wahhabism. Wrong. Sufism and Wahhabism, in fact, share…

Running down the wrong road

Vijay Prashad considers the regional alternative to troop escalation in Afghanistan, and suggests its neighbours are ready to take on the burden of stabilising the country - but only if the…

On Frantz Fanon

Forward to Black Skin, White Masks By Zia Sardar. Black Skin, White Masks by Franz Fanon, Pluto, London, 2008 http://www.plutobooks.com/cgi-local/main.pl I think it would be good if certain thing were said…