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Rajiv Dixit
Indian activist
Rajiv Dixit | |
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| Born | 30 November 1967 (1967-11-30) Nah in Aligarh district |
| Died | 30 November 2010(2010-11-30) (aged 43)[1] Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India |
Rajiv Dixit[a] (30 November 1967 – 30 November 2010) was an Indian social activist who founded the Azadi Bachao Andolan.
His organisation promoted a message of swadeshi-economics that opposed globalisation and neo-liberalism. In alliance with Ramdev, he formed the Bharat Swabhiman Andolan and its political offshoot, which combined the economic message with promotion of yoga and Ayurveda.
Life and career
[edit]In 1984, the Bhopal disaster, in which a gas leak from a pesticide plant owned by a multinational corporation resulted in thousands of deaths, led Dixit to question the role of such corporations in the Indian economy. His thinking on the subject was subsequently shaped by Dharampal, a Gandhian historian and thinker. In 1992, Dixit founded
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This article originally ran in The Herald Newspaper (Scotland) on December 27, 2013, beneath the headline ROYAL RENAISSANCE SPARKING CREATIVITY FOR KING CREOSOTE.
It was the worst of times, it was the best of times. It was the spring of despair and broken branches, it was the winter of hope and new beginnings. It was the epoch of births and rebirths, and the age of misreported deaths. Fife alt-pop seducer King Creosote has had ganska a year.
There are signs of a turbulent 12 months as our Mercury-nominated bard, aka Kenny Anderson, arrives in Dundee Contemporary Arts. First off, there’s the trace of a limp – a reminder that, in February, a boat-building accident almost cost him his foot. When it finally started to heal, in August, he knocked an amplifier atop the thrawn appendage and broke his toe.
Then there’s his postbag, stowed with orders for hand-made CDRs, squeezebox sets and fanzines (replete with a surprise KC covers album) – all of which refute, in day-glo print, this s
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Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal
Screenplay by Maggie Gyllenhaal
Based on the novel by Elena Ferrante
Netflix from 31 January 2021
CAST
Olivia Coleman – Leda Caruso
Jesse Buckley – Young Leda
Dakota Johnson – Nina
Ed Harris – Lyle
Peter Sarsgaard – Professor Hardy
Dagmara Dominczyk – Callista
Paul Mescal – Will
Jack Farthing – Joe, young Elena’s husband
Oliver Jackson-Cohen – Toni
Panos Koronis – Vassili
Alexandros Mylonas – Professor Cole
We had the New Year’s Eve opening of this one on Netflix written on the calendar and the notice board in the kitchen. Elena Ferrante’s TV series of My Brilliant Friend (in Italian) is one of our favourite ever programmes, and we are eagerly awaiting the third series. Yes, we needed subtitles, but I was told the Neapolitan dialects get so strong that people use the standard Italian subtitles in Italy. We also saw the stage play (reviewed here). Karen rea