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Why Anti-Hindi Protests Shaped Tamil Politics For 60 Years - And Still Matter Today
1 month, 1 week ago

Why Anti-Hindi Protests Shaped Tamil Politics For 60 Years - And Still Matter Today

The Hindu  

Published : Nov 11, 2024 21:32 IST - 12 MINS READ The 1960s were a time of student uprisings across the world. R. Vijaya Sankar’s timely translation of Hindi Imperialism, whose author, Aladi Aruna, was an active participant in the anti-Hindi agitations and later became an important leader in the DMK, should kindle interest in this crucial political movement of …

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CM Pinarayi Vijayan Warns Against Linguistic Imperialism, Praises Contributions of Expatriate Keralites
1 month, 3 weeks ago

CM Pinarayi Vijayan Warns Against Linguistic Imperialism, Praises Contributions of Expatriate Keralites

The Hindu  

CM Pinarayi Vijayan emphasizes the importance of preserving and nurturing the Malayalam language. He warns against linguistic imperialism and the imposition of Hindi on non-Hindi speaking people. He highlights the contributions of expatriate Keralites and the role of the mother tongue in fostering unity and cultural exchange. Writers Ezgachery Ramachandran and Naduvattom Gopalakrishnan were also recognized for their contributions to …

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CAA, Kejriwal, Action on Congress: US Sermon to India is Hypocrisy at its Best, Moral Imperialism at its Worst
8 months, 3 weeks ago

CAA, Kejriwal, Action on Congress: US Sermon to India is Hypocrisy at its Best, Moral Imperialism at its Worst

News 18  

Washington has lost imperium but that hasn’t made it less of a moral imperialist. Almost immediately after the CAA was notified, the US State Department preachily reminded the Indian government that “respect for religious freedom and equal treatment under the law for all communities are fundamental democratic principles”. This time the US State Department has let it be known to …

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Macron Warns of 'New Imperialism' Threatening Sovereignty in the Pacific
1 year, 4 months ago

Macron Warns of 'New Imperialism' Threatening Sovereignty in the Pacific

News 18  

French President Emmanuel Macron denounced “new imperialism” in the Pacific during a landmark visit to the region on Thursday, warning of a threat to the sovereignty of smaller states. “There is in the Indo-Pacific and particularly in Oceania new imperialism appearing, and a power logic that is threatening the sovereignty of several states — the smallest, often the most fragile,” …

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Inside the information war being waged between Russia's state media and exiled journalists
1 year, 10 months ago

Inside the information war being waged between Russia's state media and exiled journalists

ABC  

Russian media propaganda used to be extreme, now it's verging on insane. "It's one stage of an eight-year escalation by the Ukrainian Nazi authorities of genocide against the Russian people, against Russian speakers, against people who don't accept LGBT transgender Nazi values." As Russia's invasion of Ukraine has turned into a bloody quagmire, state-controlled television has turned the propaganda dial …

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Linguistic imperialism: BJP pronouncements on promoting Hindi spark outrage
2 years, 7 months ago

Linguistic imperialism: BJP pronouncements on promoting Hindi spark outrage

The Hindu  

On April 7, while presiding over the 37 th meeting of the Parliamentary Official Language Committee, which involved the ratifying of the eleventh volume of the committee’s report, Home Minister Amit Shah made three broad points. Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi had strongly criticised the move, stating: “Giving priority to Hindi will be construed as a first step …

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Fear of ‘Hindi imperialism’ triggers language war, but Devanagari may script an amicable truce
2 years, 7 months ago

Fear of ‘Hindi imperialism’ triggers language war, but Devanagari may script an amicable truce

Firstpost  

Time and again, Hindi is being projected as a threat to India’s pluralistic identity as far as languages are concerned. For this, the best literature of all Indian languages must be transliterated into the Devanagari script so that it can be accessible to the vast majority and wider Hindi society. The Devanagari script may also be partially modified/enhanced to accommodate …

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Right Word | NATO is a guarantee for peace and Russia cannot accept it because of its imperialism: Polish Ambassador
2 years, 8 months ago

Right Word | NATO is a guarantee for peace and Russia cannot accept it because of its imperialism: Polish Ambassador

Firstpost  

Russia is a despotic, tyrannical and autocratic system and it is dangerous for the whole world. It can’t accept that some countries are independent like Ukraine.” Ukraine and NATO Speaking strongly in support of Ukraine’s right to join NATO has been opposed by Russia, Ambassador Burakowski said, “Ukraine is an independent sovereign state. And we fully recognise this.” On NATO …

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One Tool of “Critical Thinking” That’s Done More Harm Than Good
2 years, 8 months ago

One Tool of “Critical Thinking” That’s Done More Harm Than Good

Slate  

Last week, a high school freshman’s history homework made the news. As I describe in my recent book Time’s Monster, historians within the British political elite long used the “balance sheet” concept to justify imperialism. No historian in her right mind would say, “Yes, Hitler was horrible to the Jews, but on the other hand, he built the autobahn!” Weighing …

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The Nehruvian nightmare: Why Nehru acted like a bloated Brown Sahib who distrusted Hindus and Hinduism
2 years, 10 months ago

The Nehruvian nightmare: Why Nehru acted like a bloated Brown Sahib who distrusted Hindus and Hinduism

Firstpost  

Editor’s note: The late Sita Ram Goel, a prominent historian, writer, and publisher, had Left leanings during the 1940s, but later became an outspoken anti-communist. The above article is an extract from Goel’s book, How I Became a Hindu_, first published by Voice of India in 1982._ *** Today, I view Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru as a bloated Brown Sahib, and …

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Nehru’s socialism was evolutionary, inclusive, and not based on class
2 years, 10 months ago

Nehru’s socialism was evolutionary, inclusive, and not based on class

The Hindu  

It is a curious paradox that Nehru was a socialist who consolidated capitalism. Nehru felt India could be delivered from imperialism only by unshackling from its capitalism through some form of socialism, and from its dictatorship through some form of democracy Well before Independence, he saw the world dividing and the need to take a position between the communists and …

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Book Review: 'Capitalism and Imperialism' by Utsa Patnaik & Prabhat Patnaik presents a scholarly perspective on capitalism
3 years ago

Book Review: 'Capitalism and Imperialism' by Utsa Patnaik & Prabhat Patnaik presents a scholarly perspective on capitalism

The Hindu  

The authors are among the leading economists globally known for their critical assessments of capitalism. However, for anyone who is interested in the present state of capitalism, including the one in our country, there are valuable insights in the rest of the book, especially Parts IV, V and VI. According to the authors, “all these meant a change in the …

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Netflix's Tokyo-set action flick "Kate" tries to critique imperialism while ultimately relying on it
3 years, 3 months ago

Netflix's Tokyo-set action flick "Kate" tries to critique imperialism while ultimately relying on it

Salon  

There's no escaping the imperialist mindset, even in fun action flicks like Netflix's "Kate." Not so naturally, "Kate" is set in Tokyo, where Kate, a white woman, spends most of the movie's two hours killing nearly any Asian person who crosses her path. "Kate" also relies on the tired trope of white superheroes, or superspies and assassins, roaming foreign countries …

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Dismantling Global Hindutva: To divert attention from American imperialism
3 years, 3 months ago

Dismantling Global Hindutva: To divert attention from American imperialism

Op India  

The United States of America, since 9/11 at the very least, has transformed into the most terrible violator of ‘human rights’. It is in this light that we ought to view the ‘Dismantling Global Hindutva’ conference. The current ‘Dismantling Global Hindutva’ conference is consistent with the imperial fantasies of such individuals, endorsed by the departments of various western universities. But …

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Israeli settlers: The face of US imperialism in the Middle East
3 years, 5 months ago

Israeli settlers: The face of US imperialism in the Middle East

Al Jazeera  

“Death to Arabs!” “May your village burn!” “A second Nakba is coming!” These were the slogans young Israeli settlers chanted as they marched through occupied East Jerusalem’s old city on June 15. The best place to look to understand the obvious parallels between the goals and methods of Israeli settlers and US white supremacists is perhaps the life and politics …

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Absolving empire in Palestine
3 years, 6 months ago

Absolving empire in Palestine

Al Jazeera  

Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi caused a stir during a May 20 interview with CNN about Israel’s 11-day military offensive on Gaza by claiming that the Israelis are getting favourable coverage because of their “deep pockets” and “control” over the media. However, the Pakistan FM’s remarks – particularly the use of the words “deep pockets” and “control” – seemed …

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Humanitarian imperialism: How the media exploits liberals' empathy to sell them war
3 years, 9 months ago

Humanitarian imperialism: How the media exploits liberals' empathy to sell them war

Salon  

Aversion to military intervention has been the default position of the left for at least half a century — certainly since the huge protests against the Vietnam War. The New York Times reported that three women close to Obama — Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice and Samantha Power — were teaming up to "stop a looming humanitarian catastrophe in Libya." If …

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Christian missionaries in India are engaged in imperialism and oppression but 'wokes' refuse to see this
4 years ago

Christian missionaries in India are engaged in imperialism and oppression but 'wokes' refuse to see this

Op India  

One hundred and fifty years ago, the United States was still a fledgling nation. To tell the people of India that they are “fallen” and need to be “saved” by a foreign god and his son. When it comes to India, how come the sympathies of the global left appear to lie with the cultural invaders and not the political …

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Pankaj Mishra Book Excerpt: The ‘Democratic’ West & Free Market Success are Modern Fictions
4 years, 4 months ago

Pankaj Mishra Book Excerpt: The ‘Democratic’ West & Free Market Success are Modern Fictions

The Quint  

The centuries of civil war, imperial conquest, brutal exploitation and genocide were suppressed in accounts that showed how Westerners made the modern world, and became with their liberal democracies the superior people everyone else ought to catch up with. It may be hard to remember today, especially for younger readers, that the mainstream of Anglo-America in the early 2000s deferentially …

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India will resist China’s economic imperialism |Opinion
4 years, 4 months ago

India will resist China’s economic imperialism |Opinion

Hindustan Times  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at a recent India-United States business summit, invited global investors to invest in India. He told them that India offered a combination of “openness, opportunities and options”; pointed out that India had undertaken deep structural reforms, improved domestic manufacturing and was committed to diversified international trade; and spoke of merging domestic production and consumption with global …

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India's fight against colonial imperialism was rooted in cultural re-awakening
4 years, 6 months ago

India's fight against colonial imperialism was rooted in cultural re-awakening

Op India  

The protests in America after the death of George Floyd have turned violent with the destruction of property and large scale rioting. In contrast, India’s fight against colonial imperialism can be traced to cultural re-awakening, increased awareness of one’s heritage, and a greater assertion of one’s identity. Ghosts of colonialism India reclaiming its past from colonial imperialism doesn’t stop with …

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