Articles by Vijay Prashad
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November 2012 - Featured articles
Children of the transition Delving into ‘The Harappa Files’, and Sarnath Banerjee’s insights into India today. |
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September 2012 - Featured articles
Under eastern eyes Pankaj Mishra’s look at intellectual history gives Asia’s tradition of anti-imperialist thought a pre-history. |
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June 2012 - Featured articles
Ahmed Rashid’s Af-Pak A blinkered look at the future of US involvement in Afghanistan and Pakistan continues to place hope in those who have failed so far. |
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December 2010 - Cover
History of the desi umbilical In the early 19th century, the Southasian diaspora remained actively engaged with political struggles in their lands of origin. By today, this has morphed into an obsession with economic returns. |
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April 2010 - Cover
How caste came to America emThe mid-20th century saw intense caste discussions in US academia./em |
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January 2010 - Featured articles
A Marxist and a Gentleman Jyoti Basu (1914-2010), the last surviving member of the CPI´s Politburo, former Chief Minister of Bengal, and ´almost Prime Minister´ passed away 18 January. Vijay Prashad reminds us of his legacy that sought to find a path for Indian communism. |
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October 2009 - Cover
This frog won't leap China and India must collaborate to force the West to pay for past excesses rather than plead for a ‘humanistic’ approach that delivers concessions. |
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July 1997 - Opinion
Tarnished Rays of 1947 Azaadi meant both freedom and partition. In celebrating 1947 this August, let us de-communalise our minds. |
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March 2001 - Opinion
Sitars play while humanity burns India & IT A desi entrepreneur in Silicon Valley promises an Internet gurukul—for a fee of course. Online is the assembly line of the New Age, and the Indian-NRI bourgeoisie could not be happier. |
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February 2009 - Review
The fixed fight Tariq Ali tries to break down the myths and misconceptions on Pakistan, beyond defining it as either failed state, religious country, or hater of India |
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August 2007 - Review
The education of a rebel Bhagat Singh: Liberation’s blazing star by P M S Grewal Left Word Books, 2007 |
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January 2007 - Review
Don’t let the light go out Review of Book: Anthems of Resistance: A celebration of progressive Urdu poetry by Ali Husain Mir and Raza Mir Roli Books, 2006 |
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August 2008 - Review
Girls in the shadow So long as young, Southasian, English-language authors follow the beaten path of the Rushdian baroque ‘magical realism’, critics will celebrate them. When they depart from this road of tropical hallucination, however, they are often given short shrift. This is what makes the young author present works that will be easily digested by the critics, even while the average reader is forced to plough through style over substance. |
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July 2008 - Opinion
Barefoot Obama The presumptive democratic contender for the US presidency brings to the debate a worldview heretofore largely unseen in the powerful halls of Washington, DC. |
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June 2000 - Opinion
"Proud and happy" Lara Dutta saves us from the drought Upon hearing that Lara Dutta (21) won the Miss Universe pageant on 13 May, I conducted a small, unscientific poll. asked several of my South Asian friends in the United States if they had heard the 'sensational' news: most had, this within hours of the announcement in Nicosia, Cyprus. Then I asked a host of non-South Asians, and I checked the US newspapers. I drew a blank. No one| seemed interested. |
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December 1999 - Cover
Deceit of the Right We began our study of the Hindu Right in the United States several years ago, when word of large funds being transferred to India by sympathetic organisations started doing the rounds. Of course, the flow of such cash to the ‘mother country’ was not a novel occurrence among South Asians, as we had before us the highly publicised cases of the generosity of some Sri Lankan Tamils towards the LTTE, as well as of European, Canadian and American Sikhs towards Khalistani groups in Punjab. |
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November 1999 - Commentary
Debasing death INDIA • PAKISTAN By ballot and bullet, the Indian and Pakistani states have committed themselves to the forces of the Right by late 1999. In India, an election returns a vast alliance dominated by the Hindu Right, while in Pakistan, the generals resort to a coup d'etat against a corrupt, but democratically elected regime. |
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July 2000 - Cover
Hindi right is wrong Extremist Hindutva worming its way into the minds of the Indian masses ismaking intolerance look like a good habit. The leopard does not change its spots. It was a given that the Hindu Right in In dia would be the vanguard of intolerance, and at the end of one year in power that is exactly how it is. |
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January 1999 - Feature
Theatre of the people There are still ways to produce art and social commentary without having to be routed through the media monopolised by Big Business. On 1 January 1999, theatre activist Safdar Hashmi will have been dead ten years. Time flies when the struggles are intense and what time there is, is spent less on grieving than on continuing the battle for which Safdar gave his life. |
Featured Articles
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People versus wildlife 17 May 2013
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Reassessing wildlife conservation policies in India.
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After the flood 7 May 2013
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The new realities of life for villagers in Hunza Valley who lost their homes and lands to a natural lake following a 2010...
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Disappearing foods 25 April 2013
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A collection of recipes that are fading from the Southasian palette.
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Eat, drink, write 23 April 2013
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A food writer dishes on the ins and outs of her profession.
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Brideprice 22 April 2013
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A new translation of Manik Bandopadhyay's ‘Namuna’ by Madhusree Mukerjee.
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Among the believers 19 April 2013
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An account from Varanasi, where bhang and thandai struggle to survive the onslaught of LSD and Coca-Cola.
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Behind the crystals 18 April 2013
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Capturing the lives of Marakkanam’s salt pan workers
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In search of food sovereignty 17 April 2013
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Shifting the debate on the Public Distribution System.
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Farms, Feasts, Famines: web-exclusive package 17 April 2013
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Missing connections 8 April 2013
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Girja Kumar’s book on the Indus and the cultures tied to it obscures a tremendous wealth of interconnected histories and...
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No place for picnics 4 April 2013
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Kashmiri women tell their stories of the conflict.
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'I bowled left-arm chinaman' 28 March 2013
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Shehan Karunatilaka speaks about winning awards, spin bowling, italics in fiction, and much more.
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Romila Thapar addresses invitees at the Southasian relaunch of Himal Southasian, IIC, New Delhi, January 2013. |
The archive: 25 years of Southasia
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Old Faces, New Precedents
On 11 May 2013, Pakistan went to the polls in a general election that will transfer power democratically for the first time in the nation's history. Nawaz Sharif has claimed victory for the Pakistan Muslim League-N.
From our archive: Mehreen Zahra-Malik discusses novel means of holding corrupt officials to account in 'A coup by other means?' (July 2012)
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Shamshad Ahmad on praetorian irony, Machiavelli's prince, and Pakistan's fight for constitutional primacy. (January 2008)
Zia Mian and A H Nayyar write about Pakistan's coup culture and Nawaz Sharif's 'absolutist sense of power.' (November 1999)
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