First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
Slavoj Žižek
Paperback   B Format   156 pages   Rs 200
ISBN 9788189059019
The title of this book is intended as an elementary IQ test for the reader: if the first association it generates is the vulgar anti-communist cliché —“You are right—today, after the tragedy of twentieth-century totalitarianism, all the talk about a return to communism can only be farcical!”—then I sincerely advise you to stop here. Indeed, the book should be forcibly confiscated from you, since it deals with an entirely different tragedy and farce, namely, the two …

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The Times of India interviews Bhagwan Das, lawyer and research associate of Dr B.R. Ambedkar in 1955-56,  on meeting Babasaheb, dalit politics and reservations. Read the complete talk here.
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-Navayana is reissuing the four-volume ‘Thus Spoke Ambedkar’, a collection of Dr B.R. Ambedkar’s writings and speeches that Das compiled between 1963 and 1980. The box set also includes an hour-long documentary film ‘Bhagwan Das: In Pursuit of Ambedkar’, a teaser for which can be watched here.