Category Archives: Periodical

Walking with the Comrades – Ghandians with a Gun?

The author of the The God of Small Things presents lively her illegal visit to the Maoist rebels in the forests of Chhattisgarth, centre India. Naxalits – whom the Indian government found its greatest security threat – in fact are fighting for protecting the tribes that lost their traditional life form and dignity and against industrial and mining companies that want to expel them and against central authorities supporting these firms.

Arundhati Roy: Walking With The Comrades Gandhians with a Gun?  Outlook [India], March 29, 2010. http://www.outlookindia.com/printarticle.aspx?264738.

Obama bin Laden

The essay is examining the relationship and inherent links between decision makers and the ones who rebel against these decisions. The analysis unites points of earlier ideas of the author that were partly already published in Eszmélet.

“Imaginary” Culture – An Interpretation of Roma/Gypsy Culture and Its Misinterpretations

"Why the – mostly misinterpreted – theory of Sándor Rácz Romano, the theory on the culture of separation became so popular? Why concepts of underclass and social disadvantage do not fit either?" asks the author. Concepts do matter, since if it were "the culture of segregation" accepted as the starting point then it would be obvious that what the culture of separation means in fact is the result of a certain economic and social development and it is not a national/ethnic