A Brief Note on Political Structure
A BRIEF NOTE ON POLITICAL STRUCTURE
PRASANNA K CHOUDHARY
Human communities self-organise in order…
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Genesis of Capital in India
My book ‘Genesis of Capital in India’ in Kindle Edition. https://www.amazon.in/GENESIS-CAPITAL-INDIA-Prasanna-Choudhary-ebook/dp/B01MRTPPTA?_encoding=UTF8&keywords=genesis%20of%20capital%20in%20india&qid=1480937433&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1
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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myuyQXJQD7Q)
Virtual Artists Talks Series: Praveen K. Chaudhry on New York City: Pand...
Mother’s storybook photos become viral sensation
Originally posted on Flickr Blog:
When we first spotted Elena Shumilova’s photostream, her photos instantly took our breath away. The Russian photographer transports her viewers into a beautiful world that revolves around her two little sons and their adorable pets — scenes literally out of a storybook. Elena’s use of natural light, colors, and her enchanting rural surroundings have not only…
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St. Mark’s Square II, Venice, 2007, Guy Sargent
Haile Gerima: I’m not sure I deserve such an honor because of the few films I have done in the world. I didn’t have the resources to have done more. Sankofa (1993), I should have done at least ten sequels because I have fifteen scripts. And so, in a world where one is denied the tools and resources, in that kind of dire state of struggle to gain my right to tell a story, to think of such very insightful emotional dynamics in my work is really a blessing. Now for me, I am a human being who’s been lied to. So when I shoot, it’s, for me, a rifle, it’s a gun, it’s an explosion. Every film is a staircase to respond to my interest to cleanse my own state of occupation. It’s kind of a decolonizing journey, and no one is going to finance me, no one is going to say, “Here’s money to tell another story.” Unless she drives Miss Daisy I have no chance of being financed by the present arrangement.
Read: Love Visual: A Conversation with Haile Gerima on Aperture Magazine’s website.
MANDELA: A CELEBRATION
July 15 to 20, 2013
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture will mark Nelson Mandela’s birthday and Nelson Mandela International Day (July 18) with six days of commemoration.
Mandela: A Celebration is a special...
Dr B R Ambedkar (14.04.1891 - 06.12.1956)
Great social reformer, philosopher, jurist, political leader, historian and economist. Independent India's first Law Minister and Chairperson of the Constitution's Drafting Committee (29.08.1947 - 24.01.1950).
A few quotes from his writings:
"Every act of independent thinking puts some portion of apparently stable world in peril."
"For a successful revolution, it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights."
"What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights."
"Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies government."
"I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved."
"Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence."
Today is his 123rd birth anniversary.
The tide at night, murmur of bare feet on the sand.
The tide, at dawn, opens the eyelids of the day.
The tide breathes in the deep night and, sleeping, speaks in dreams.
The tide that licks the corpses that the coast throws at it.
The tide rises, races, howls, knocks down the door, breaks the furniture, and then, on the shore, softly weeps.
The tide, madwoman writing indecipherable signs on the rocks, signs of death.
The sand guards the secrets of the tide.
Who is the tide talking to, all night long?
—Octavio Paz, from “Target Practice” Art Credit Richard Diebenkorn.
Alfred Wertheimer’s never-before-seen photos of Elvis when he was a 21-year-old up-and-coming crooner.
'Naitaavad enaa, paro anyad asti' (There is not merely this, but a transcendent other). Rgveda. X, 31.8.
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