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Tariq Ali
Tariq Ali
Pakistani Historian
Born: Oct 21, 1943
Am Change Every Political War World
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The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence. Tariq Ali
Independence Own Nationalism Weakness Only Lay Could Factor Identity Traditional Scottish Inability Grasp March
Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer of Scottish society, not just the remnants of the defeated clans. Tariq Ali
Political Every Society Destroyed Followed Emigration Layer Brutal Identity Huge Scotland Scottish North North America America Just Included Defeated
As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America. Tariq Ali
Political Latin Latin America Weak Students Always America Current Africa Confined Asia Largely Britain
Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture. Tariq Ali
Culture Several Members Membership Thousand Had Combined Force Periphery Became Genuine Norway Where Sweden Popular Groups
Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups. Tariq Ali
Best Change Women World Men Young Change The World Atmosphere Joined Stifling Women And Men Did Wanted Against Young Women Who Reasons Many Groups Fought
When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months. Tariq Ali
Women Black Men Style Few Months Stuck Study Least Leather October Arrived Cavalry Jackets Donkey Oxford Bohemian Coat Plastic Navy
The origins of Indian classical music, not unlike their western counterparts, lie in the Vedas, the ancient Hindu scriptures of 2,000 years ago. Tariq Ali
Music Lie Unlike Ancient Indian Classical Classical Music Counterparts Hindu Years Years Ago Western Scriptures Origins
The human voice deployed to recite the Vedas and later aid the temple dancers was paramount before any instruments emerged. Tariq Ali
Before Aid Recite Dancers Later Paramount Temple Emerged Voice Instruments Any Human Deployed Human Voice
I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it. Tariq Ali
Birthday Me Myth Reading Before Gave Months Someone Looked Shelves Did Legends Stop Many Sat Present Copy Pears
There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture. Tariq Ali
Culture Hundred Later Given Both Poets Could Scholars Contemporaries How Real Came Were Years Oral Whether Sang Agreement Homer Among Earlier
The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here. Tariq Ali
Democracy Culture Political Citizen First Politicians Military Way India Born Economic Idea Institutions Were Subject Greek Antiquity Anything China Hegemony Creating Whole Here
For India, the links with the United States/Israel are the centrepiece of its foreign policy. Tariq Ali
India Policy Foreign Foreign Policy Links United
I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about to take up a place at Wadham College, but the war broke out, and he joined the Army instead. Tariq Ali
War Army Father College Broke Out About Joined Take Never Had He Instead Know Because Been Up Oxford Place Thing Suggested Britain
In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right. Tariq Ali
Dreams World Seventies Hopes Had Still Shifted End Decade Utopia Right
I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad. Tariq Ali
Home Democracy Think Ruling Abroad Parties West Same Decline Wars
I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, but what actually happened was capitalist restoration. Tariq Ali
Political Hoped Eastern Eastern Europe Restoration Concept Am Revolutions Happen After Happened Might Capitalist Europe Fully Aware Actually
The patchwork political landscape of the Arab world - the client monarchies, degenerated nationalist dictatorships, and the imperial petrol stations known as the Gulf states - was the outcome of an intensive experience of Anglo-French colonialism. Tariq Ali
Experience World Political Colonialism States Stations Arab Arab World Outcome Gulf Imperial Known Client Dictatorships Intensive Nationalist Landscape Petrol
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