CREDO I am; we are A million miles or more from our nearest star. We absorb us, I absolve me,
He gets into an airplane on the island of Taipei, and is about to escape, when his plane crashes during attempts to take off. He’s severely burned, and dies soon after. The British imperial government of India, his immediate adversary, gets the news, but is cautious about believing it– after all, it’s perfectly possible to stage your own death, and then reappear at a later, more opportune moment.
There’s a new player, who has improved tremendously while no one was paying attention: Hamas. It has done extremely well to breach Israel’s supposedly impenetrable security system – the low-tech nature of the action took everyone by surprise. Its unconventional, some would say unfair, tactics have outraged those on the other side.
Virendranath Chattopadhyay was the son of Aghorenath Chattopadhyay of Hyderabad, India; his siblings in a large family included the poet Sarojini Naidu and the playwright and poet Harindranath Chattopadhyay. As a student in London, he had become involved with the India House group of the Indian agitator Shyamji Krishna Varma…
Major James Strachey Barnes was, in fact, an Anglo-Indian born in Simla. He had grown up with his maternal grandparents in Italy, then he studied at Eton and Sandhurst (he entered Sandhurst as a King’s India Cadet a term later than scheduled, in September instead of February 1909, owing to his having failed the medical examination in the first instance).
And ever since then, a shibboleth is a word that must be pronounced to demonstrate the proper belonging to a community. Without having the proper word at your disposal, you could easily come to a sticky end.
It also follows that plagiarism is endemic and integral to academic worlds; and that professionals plagiarise in ways that they will get away with. The sanctions against plagiarism by amateurs are among the gatekeeper functions performed by professionals.
This would have made no difference to Paul Robeson, when he chose to sing the song. He was comfortable with the work of Dvořák; he sang a song from the 1848 Revolution in Czech by Smetana; and he said of himself that he could sing in twenty-five languages. As an internationalist and a communist, the purpose of his work was to emphasise what was common to the human condition.
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