A hugely prolific and popular writer, Jodi Picoult boasts nearly 30 novels in print worldwide. She has been translated into 34 languages and, in 2018, she was ranked in the “top ten” of Princeton’s most influential living alumni. Yet her name rarely features in the short lists for prestigious literary awards and she is consistently ignored by ac…[Read more]

This paper explores interpretations of the Japanese parliament by governmental actors in the Qing empire, most importantly the commissioners for constitutional research Li Jiaju 李家駒 (1871–1938) and Dashou 達壽 (1870–1939). It shows that, within a theoretical framework formed in dialogue with their Japanese constitutionalist colleagues, these actors…[Read more]

त्रिवेणी संघ की सक्रियता का काल 1933 से लेकर 1942 ईसवी तक माना जाता है। इस समय ”बीसवीं सदी अपने शैशवकाल को समाप्त कर युवावस्था को प्राप्त कर रही थी। ’जागरूक होते पिछड़े-दलित समुदायों और उनके दमन, शोषण की चौतरफा कोशिश के बीच जन्मे त्रिवेणी संघ का ”उद्देश्य तथा कार्यक्रम शोषित, शासित तथा दलित यानी सभी अनुन्नत समाज की उन्नति’’ था। उसने उद्घोष क…[Read more]

This is an article focused on the Mahishasur movement. The article also discusses the ideological bases of this movement.

Brahmanical history is based on myths. It neither has been constructed chronologically nor is factually correct. It has eclipsed the reality with a cobweb of myths. To establish a new creed, established dogmas must be disproven. Ish Mishra reviews ‘Mahishasur: Mithak va Paramparayen’ :

The book Mahishasur: Mithak va Paramparayen (Ma…[Read more]

Recently, an important book, Mahishasur: Mithak va Paramparayen (Mahishasur: Myth and Traditions), edited by Pramod Ranjan, was published by Forward Press in collaboration with Marginalised Publication. The book lets the reader travel through the living history of the myths of Durga and Mahishasur. The book is divided into five parts – ‘Yatra Vri…[Read more]

महिषासुर आंदोलन से संबंधित यह पहली पुस्तिका है, जिसमें महिषासुर से संबंधित विभिन्न परंपराओं की जानकारी है। इस पुस्तिका के बाद 2014 में एक और पुस्तिका “महिषासुर” शीर्षक से प्रकाशित हुई। 2016 में इन दोनों पुस्तिकाओं के लेखों को कुछ अन्य लेखाें के साथ मिलाकर एक पुस्तक “महिषासुर: एक जननायक” प्रकाशित की गई। उसके बाद एक अन्य स्वतंत्र संपादित पुस्तक “मह…[Read more]

The period of masonic internationalism in the last third of the 19th and first third of the 20th centuries saw the most visible – and controversial – attempts to organisationally model the “cosmopolitan imperative” of freemasonry. The various freemasonries in Europe saw themselves as links in a world-spanning “chain of brothers” forged by the…[Read more]

Lynn Margulis’s writing about symbiosis has profoundly influenced contemporary evolutionary theory, as well as continental and analytic philosophy of science, the materialist turn, and new materialism. Nonetheless, her work, and all symbiosis or evolution, is founded on a paradox: symbiosis fictionalizes customary accounts of the origin and e…[Read more]

In the current social and political turmoil, few issues are more divisive and cause more controversy than issues related to the rights of sexual minorities and gender dissidents. The polarizing impact of these issues is really astounding given the size of these two groups. Explanations for this divisiveness of LGBTQ rights focus on either the…[Read more]

Tras el fin de la III Conferencia Panamericana en Río de Janeiro, el Secretario de Estado de Estados Unidos, Elihu Root, inició una gira por varios países sudamericanos. Uno de ellos fue el Perú, a donde arribó el 10 de setiembre de 1906. Al desembarcar en el Callao, Root se convirtió en el oficial estadounidense de más alto rango en visita…[Read more]

Tras el fin de la III Conferencia Panamericana en Río de Janeiro, el Secretario de Estado de Estados Unidos, Elihu Root, inició una gira por varios países sudamericanos. Uno de ellos fue el Perú, a donde arribó el 10 de setiembre de 1906. Al desembarcar en el Callao, Root se convirtió en el oficial estadounidense de más alto rango en visita…[Read more]

वर्ष 2007 में मधुर भंडारकर की फिल्म ‘ट्रैफिक सिग्नल’ आई थी। इस फिल्म में शहरों में हाशिए पर रहने वाली जिंदगियों का चित्रण था। फिल्म में छोटे-मोटे काम करने वाले, भीख मांग कर गुजारा करने वालों के साथ किन्नरों के त्रासद जीवन को भी दिखाया गया था। उस समय हिमाचल प्रदेश के कुछ लेखकों ने फिल्म में हिजड़ों को किन्नर कहने का का पुरजोर विरोध किया था। परिण…[Read more]

With US economic sanctions against Russia in recent years, the Nord Stream Gas Pipeline project in Europe that links Russia and Germany via the Baltic Sea came under considerable global attention. Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine has only increased uncertainties around the Project, arguably one of the world’s most consequential submarine pip…[Read more]

The freedom of transit in international trade law originally involved the movement of goods across borders without any arbitrary or unnecessary hindrance. In this era of network-bound energy systems requiring the permanent establishment of fixed installations such as gas pipelines and high voltage power transmission grids to facilitate access to…[Read more]

How do people make sense of works of art? And how do they write to make others see the same way? There are many guides to looking at art, histories of art history and art criticism, and accounts of various ‘theories’ and ‘methods’, but this book offers something very unlike the normal search for difference and division: it examines the general…[Read more]

Freemasons often referred to an ideal of “humanité” (Humanität, umanità, humanity) in order to bridge all differences separating mankind. In doing so, they rendered these differences all the more visible, especially in the international arenas. This was definitely the case when freemasons tried to deduce from this ideal “universal” standards…[Read more]

The article outlines how comprehensive works on the history of Europe conceptually deal with religion – with regard to the relationship between religion, society and culture, the handling of the theory of secularisation and the significance of religion for the construction of Europe.

Der Beitrag skizziert, wie Gesamtdarstellungen zur Geschichte…[Read more]