From Gandhi to Guevara (book review)

Review of From Gandhi to Guevara: the polemics of revolt by C.R.Hensman, ’An African elephant cannot stumble’, complained Malcolm X, ’without falling on a white man with a shovel.’ The …

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The Politics of Language

  Originally published in the Ceylon Daily News 9.7.1970 Language can be the key not only to cultural identity but also to the maintenance of privilege. The Tamils of Ceylon …

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Revolt of the Natives

Published in Twentieth Century October 1968   If, as Marx has pointed out, each epoch needs to be examined in terms of categories suitable to it, the category relevant to …

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