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From Common Rooms to Campus Cults: How Ideological Prophetism Captured Mysore Academia
Two classic vantage points—A.N. Murthy Rao’s portrait of the Maharaja College Common Room and B.G.L. Swamy’s field-notes in Mysore Diary—trace how Mysore’s academic culture shifted from collegial mentorship to hardened factionalism. The analysis situates this transition in broader patterns of patronage, social identity dynamics, and an assertive “prophetic mentality” that privileges rupture over deliberation. It…
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Why is the Complete History of the Communists Still not Part of our School Textbooks?
The history of Communism in India is a contentious and complex one. The rise and influence of Communist parties in India have had significant consequences on the country’s political and social landscape. From its early days to the present, Communism has played a prominent role in Indian politics, often polarizing opinions and leading to intense…