An independent Scotland could be far more internationalist and would benefit a great deal from links to both Scandinavia and states in other continents.
Category Archive: Tariq Ali
I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.
‘Theogony’ should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
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.
The human voice deployed to recite the Vedas and later aid the temple dancers was paramount before any instruments emerged.
Revolutionaries are not infallible.
Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.
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.
Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.