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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hostility between India and Pakistan has become a habit to which both the elites have become addicted. Any attempt towards a rational solution to real problems is denounced by chauvinists on both sides.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
An act of unilateral nuclear disarmament by a European power would have a much more lasting impact than all the sanctions under consideration. Sanctions, as we know from the example of Iraq, always affect the least powerful citizens the most.
- Nov 07, 2020
Revolutionaries are not infallible.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.
- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poland, after the First World War, was beset by chaos, disorder, and a foolish incursion by the Red Army, which helped to produce the ultra-nationalist military dictatorship of General Pilsudski.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.
- Independence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
An independent Scotland could be far more internationalist and would benefit a great deal from links to both Scandinavia and states in other continents.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer of Scottish society, not just the remnants of the defeated clans.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
- Force
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.
- Cavalry
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
- Indian
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- Nov 07, 2020
The origins of Indian classical music, not unlike their western counterparts, lie in the Vedas, the ancient Hindu scriptures of 2,000 years ago.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The human voice deployed to recite the Vedas and later aid the temple dancers was paramount before any instruments emerged.
- Feudal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
- Copy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
- Favourable
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only continent where social movements have led to political parties that have pushed through serious social and political reforms is in South America.
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
For India, the links with the United States/Israel are the centrepiece of its foreign policy.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about to take up a place at Wadham College, but the war broke out, and he joined the Army instead.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never totally what we would now call 'politically correct,' even in my most militant phase. I always liked good food, good wines. I suppose it was because I had total confidence in myself.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only decent daily paper of record in France is the online 'Mediapart,' which exposes graft and corruption in high places and is feared by the establishment.
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, but what actually happened was capitalist restoration.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as the Pentagon bankrolls the Pakistan army to fight its wars, and NATO troops remain in Afghanistan, there will be quarrels, charges of infidelity, a reduction in the household allowance, perhaps a separation - but a divorce? Never.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The patchwork political landscape of the Arab world - the client monarchies, degenerated nationalist dictatorships, and the imperial petrol stations known as the Gulf states - was the outcome of an intensive experience of Anglo-French colonialism.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.
- Bidder
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- Nov 07, 2020
To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a candidate, Obama projected himself as a new Reagan, above narrow party politics. He wanted to please all but has ended up annoying many.
- Cricket
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Pakistan Cricket Board is a long-standing joke, its chairmen replaced with every change of government.
- Enthusiasm
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- Nov 07, 2020
Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.
- Sea
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- Nov 07, 2020
A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television.
- Dwarf
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were constantly appealing for funds from readers when I edited 'The Black Dwarf' in 1968-69.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
- Genealogy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted.
- Diplomatic Relations
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- Nov 07, 2020
In January 1961, the United States severed diplomatic relations in response to Cuban nationalisation of U.S.-owned sugar plantations, banks and businesses.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1962, President Kennedy expanded an earlier trade embargo put in place by a predecessor, President Eisenhower, to a total economic blockade, which pushed the Cubans further in Moscow's direction.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an atheist and do not know the meaning of the 'religious pain' that is felt by believers of every cast when what they believe in is insulted.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not insulted by billions of Christians, Muslims and Jews believing there is a God and praying to this nonexistent deity on a regular basis.
- Cinema
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.
- Moving
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Lumiere brothers first exhibited moving pictures in Paris in 1896. A year later, there was a private showing at the Yildiz palace in Istanbul.
- Carved
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cinematic language and interior destiny of each Iranian film-maker is different. The international influences on them vary from Rossellini to Fellini, Akira Kurosawa to Hou Hsiao-hsien, but there is a strong sense of solidarity.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020