The articles, the opinions, the stories and the cartoons, Ovi magazine covers for Monday October 11th, 2021.
Jayaprakash Narayan: Advocate of the Nonviolent Total Revolution by Rene Wadlow
Jayaprakash Narayan (1902-1979) whose birth anniversary we mark on 11 October, was an Indian social reformer in the struggle for Indian independence led by Mahatma Gandhi and a social reformer after the independence of India. J.P. as he was usually called, had followed the advice given by Gandhi to refuse schooling financed by the British colonial authorities. Thus in 1922, he left India to go to the USA. With part-time jobs, he financed his education at different U.S. universities until 1929 when he received a Master’s degree in sociology from the University of Ohio and then returned to India.
While at the University of Wisconsin, through some professors and a few students, he discovered the writings of Karl Marx and ever after considered himself a Marxist. As he wrote “Marxism provided a beacon of light for me: equality and brotherhood. Freedom was not enough. It must mean freedom for all – even the lowliest – and this freedom must include freedom from exploitation, from hunger and poverty.”
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A message to a widow #poem & #painting by Amir Khatib
“I am a lonely man worthy of you, madam,
share your unit or double it,
He puts you on your coat and arranges your collar, which you neglect every time,
But because of the back pain,”
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Always something; the family edition 21#17 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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