'Naitaavad enaa, paro anyad asti' (There is not merely this, but a transcendent other). Rgveda. X, 31.8.
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BuzzFeed News identified more than 100 pro-Trump websites being run from a single town in the former Yugoslav Republic.
Bob Dylan, Nobel Laureate (2016).
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Los Angeles Review of Books: Finding Silence: Indra Das’s “The Devourers”
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 8 (IANS) Dipa Karmakar created history by becoming the first Indian gymnast to enter the Olympic finals at the Rio Olympic Centre here. Competing in the third sub-division, Dipa had an average score of 51.665. In uneven bars, Deepa scored 7.166 for execution and 4.5 for difficulty
The Brazilian government has strongly rejected suggestions by two U.S. anthropologists that the only way to protect the country’s isolated tribes would be to establish contact with them.
Photographer Michael Gaffney followed Muhammad Ali’s storied career and documented many of his finest moments. He also captured a collection of pictures that show the more unseen side of Ali outside of the ring – from time on the road with his family, to impromptu greetings with fans and moments Ali took alone, away from his exuberant fame.
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John Smith on Imperialism in the 21st Century John Smith’s book on imperialism is a groundbreaking work revealing the super-exploitation of the global south. Daphna Whitmore from Redline interviewed him about his book.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra & William Shakespeare
Did you know? Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra fought at the Battle of Lepanto (1571), was wounded, captured, imprisoned; he escaped, was enslaved and finally ransomed. Returning to Spain, he worked as an army quartermaster but spent several spells in jail on financial charges. Then, at the age of 58, he wrote the world’s best selling novel, Don Quixote.
In his modest house in Madrid’s Calle de León, Cervantes died on April 23, 1616, perhaps the saddest day in literary history ― for on the same day, the world also lost William Shakespeare.
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It’s hard to know where to start in tallying up the explosive revelations in the Panama Papers, an analysis of leaked documents from global law firm Mossack Fonseca revealed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).
A quiet spring weekend was suddenly shattered on Sunday when news of the “Panama Papers” investigation broke.
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.
Our quote of the day is from the Irish poet W.B. Yeats
"One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas." ― Victor Hugo, born on this day in 1802
Long Live the Legacy of Comrade Vemula Rohith Chakravarthy : Statement by New Socialist Initiative (NSI)
Long Live the Legacy of Comrade Vemula Rohith Chakravarthy : Statement by New Socialist Initiative (NSI)
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The real test of Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratic credential lies here.
The Eiffel Tower, winter of 1948 - Paris, France. (Dmitri Kessel—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #prayersforparis
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