Tag: calcutta
john hutnyk , January 4th, 2022
On why I think Marx’s writing style is misrepresented by the all-too-dour and serious commentators on Capital – you know, the famous ones published by big presses or…
john hutnyk , March 12th, 2021
Reposted from three years ago because – the stats tell me – at least one copy has been downloaded every day this month. Either its a dedicated bot…
john hutnyk , February 14th, 2021
I really want to go on this today : << this is an article from The Telegraph newspaper in Kolkata>> : The 11-hour ride, which will have its…
john hutnyk , May 9th, 2020
Highly unlikely, but if there were to be a collection of quotes for such an edition, this fine example would do very well as a back cover quote…
john hutnyk , February 26th, 2020
Somewhere I have a photograph of a piece of graffiti from Kolkata in the early 1990s. It shows three palms behind a brick wall on which is painted…
→Trinketization: answers to all questions about trinkets, and Capital.
john hutnyk , September 24th, 2019
Liquidity of the Sundarbans: If the Tigers and Cyclones Don’t Get You, the Law Will This forms the first part of a new research concentration for me, and…
john hutnyk , September 22nd, 2019
Marx in CalcuttaCITY2018 Just click on the page to read the whole thing.
john hutnyk , September 21st, 2019
I don’t have cause to say so often enough, but I consider Jadavpur a second alma mater for me (just as second breakfast is the most important meal…
john hutnyk , August 22nd, 2019
Some books reviewed by Pablo Bose (and for me, good company in which to be): From The Journal of Asian Studies, 78(03), 691–696. doi:10.1017/s0021911819000937 ….
john hutnyk , March 22nd, 2019
In one part of the recently translated Spooky Encounters, Sumanta Banerjee chats with the picnicking ghostly Marx and Engels about Indian food in London: “‘Fish-and-chips has almost disapp…
john hutnyk , March 14th, 2019
Atrocities and alibi’s for dirty colonial deeds of the ‘robber baron’ Clive and his mates. Here is a plaque for John Zephania Holwell, who wrote his dramatically claustrophobic…
john hutnyk , January 11th, 2019
I am gathering material for a review of this area and found a dissertation that discusses The Rumour of Calcutta: “Hutnyk (1996: 10) also states that the massive…
john hutnyk , October 4th, 2018
Marx in CalcuttaCITY2018 Just click on the page to read the whole thing.
john hutnyk , May 5th, 2018
22 years ago my first book was typeset and laid out in the days before electronics – well, an electric typesetting machine was plugged into a wall, but…
john hutnyk , March 29th, 2018
The Commission of Customs Scotland to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, reporting on the subject of trade with India, in 1812, examined Earl, Osborne and Ferrier (traders)…
john hutnyk , February 28th, 2018
[JH comment: now if you were plying the illicit opium trade on behalf of dodgy East India Company officials, you’d also need to stop by the Tavern and…
john hutnyk , December 27th, 2017
From: The Global Nomad: Backpacker Travel in Theory and Practice edited by Dr. Greg Richards, Dr. Julie Wilson 2004 And From: A Common Mission: Healthy Patterns in Congregational…
john hutnyk , November 26th, 2017
Reviews of a twenty year old book. Yup, Thanks heaps: Filed under: books, calcutta, tourism
john hutnyk , September 4th, 2017
Mrinal Sen’s great film Interview begins with a few shots of the removal of colonial statues from the Maidan in Calcutta, shipped off to a closed space in…
john hutnyk , February 28th, 2016
From the vaults, this has been digitised: Calcutta Cipher ‘Calcutta Cipher: Travellers and the City’ in Social Analysis: The International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice, No. 32…