Communism
The Fall of the Soviet Union: Monologues from Below
Svetlana Alexievich
A Nobel Laureate chronicles the fall of the Soviet Union
1989: Between History and Memory
The threat today is no longer from the comic strip communism of Pyongyang. It is the ex-communist as an aggrieved nationalist, or the pinstriped communist as a Confucian capitalist, who challenges the world
Among the Digital Dissidents
I have not found a better creativity-of-dissent narrative than Emily Parker’s Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground
A Tipsy-Turvy State
There are few quite like the merry men of Communist Kerala. From a group’s 27-year crusade for senior citizens’ right to subsidised alcohol to others who shoot off indignant SMSes if a liquor shop delays opening its shutters by even five minutes, Soutik Biswas records the desperation of the Malayali alcoholic.
Poet of Two Nations
Faiz Ahmed Faiz passed on 25 years ago. A chronicle of the life of the Scotch-drinking, globe-trotting, communist, Don Juanesque poster boy of modern Urdu poetry.
Bloodied Bengal and Its Bhadralok
Why violence maintains its currency as a political tool in West Bengal
What the Left has Lost
The Communists have come in for opprobrium, not because of the middle class’ aspirations, but because they have devalued their own worth
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