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This history and development of India’s left movements are unique in that the country is home to two coexisting strands of modern communism. The first of these is the Parliamentary Communist Party of India, which constituted the first democratically-elected Marxist government in the country. The Parliamentary left subscribes to a social-democratic philosophy, turning to the traditional democratic institutions of governance in their quest to fulfill the ...
The first impression that a novel of John Wain creates is that of 'a world of external reality' existing 'Independently of the author's testimony', but not of his sensibility'. A post-war British novelist, Wain was the first among the younger writers of his generation to come out with a novel which stirred the imagination of a large number of readers and greatly influenced the younger writers of the nineteen-fifties. This novel, Hurry On Down, published in ...