Monthly Archives: November 2014

Why the world’s largest democracy has the most modern-day slaves

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Rashid Faridi

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Middle East:A Misnomer

Posted on November 17, 2014 by Rashid Faridi

A term which originated in the west to pack up a group of regions and nations which have different languages, history, and culture. People there do not think of themselves as “middle eastern”. They think of themselves as either Arabs, … Continue reading →

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BOOK: The Age of Scientific Naturalism: Tyndall and His Contemporaries

Posted on November 15, 2014 by Rashid Faridi

Originally posted on The Dispersal of Darwin:
Pickering & Chatto has published as part of their Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century series a collection of papers about the nineteenth-century Irish physicist John Tyndall, who wrote and lectured for…

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From a Professor to a Showman: Kishen Pattnayak on Prannoy Roy

Posted on November 14, 2014 by Rashid Faridi

Originally posted on KAFILA – COLLECTIVE EXPLORATIONS SINCE 2006:
Translated from the original Hindi by Akhil Katyal Kishen Pattnayak (1930-2004) was a socialist thinker and writer. He had been a member of the Indian parliament from Orissa. Pattanayak was the founding…