Remembering Antonio Gramsci

Remembering Antonio Gramsci

On this day in 1937, the Italian Marxist and theorist Antonio Gramsci died in captivity of the Italian Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini.In addition to being a Marxist philosopher, Gramsci was also a journalist, linguist, writer and politician. He wrote on philosophy, political theory, sociology, history and linguistics while being a founding member and one-time…

Fascism in independent India

Fascism in independent India

Faroagh ul Islam mom kī tarah jalte rahe ham shahīdoñ ke tan rāt-bhar jhilmilātī rahī sham-e-sub.h-e-vatan Makhdoom Mohiuddin’s Chaand taaro’n ka bann is a pithy description of our historic struggle against the British Raj. The battle of Plassey, fought in 1757, set in motion the nascent struggle for freedom and culminated into a fully organised…