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The Long Goodbye
Published in the late 1940s, a decade after his death, the Italian volumes of Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks started the process of his secular canonization. A founder of the Italian Communist Party, Gramsci had spent 11 years in Fascist custody. During this period, while his teeth fell out and his health failed, Gramsci filled 3,000 notebook pages with reflections on anything and everything he believed was relevant to Italian history and politics, and the prospects for the left in Europe. To get past the prison censors, he did so in coded, sometimes enigmatic abstractions. In 1937, still in Fascist custody, he died never having seen one of his two sons. At the time, he was mourned by his Communist comrades but by few outside those circles, and certainly fewer outside of Italy.
Today, Gramsci is a household name; one no longer hears it pronounced as if he were Polish. In college courses devoted to intellectuals, or Marxism, or political theory, students routinely learn of his insistence that consequential political action happens in realms, like culture, that had not heretofore seemed politically consequential. In this scheme, intellectuals become particularly important for Gramsci—not because he thinks attention should be paid to noncelebrities as well as to the talking heads in mass media, though he does, but because, as he understands power, the work of intellectuals is essential both to maintaining it (from above) and to taking it (from below). And much of that work, which goes on outside of the limelight, involves listening and adapting to those who don’t share your cultural values or political goals. The exercise of hegemonic leadership—a leadership by consent—can never occur without some element of concession to those who are led. In emphasizing the role that culture and civil society play in politics, Gramsci was telling the left that it had to lead—or rule—in a social landscape that seemed alien to it and that could easily be dismissed, then and now, as apolitical and even toxic to genuine left-wing commitments. To an extent that remains remarkable, given that he lived under Fascism and we live under various styles of liberal democracy, his landscape has become ours.
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Jinnah’s ‘Jinnah’ turned into AMU, MP asks him for compulsion to photograph
The genie of Pakistan’s father Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s photo has again surfaced in Aligarh Muslim University. Local BJP MP and AMU court member Satish Gautam has taken over the photograph of Jinnah. Tariq Mansoor has written a letter. It is said that for which reasons Jinnah’s photograph is located in some places. The question is, Jinnah was the chief architect of the partition of India and Pakistan and at this time Pakistan is also doing unnecessary acts. How logical is it to put Jinnah’s picture in AMU? Jinnah’s photograph is in AMU’s Student Union Hall. The ruckus was first raised with an RTI on this matter. Where was the picture of where Jinnah was engaged? He could not even answer. The picture of Jinnah is in the upper hall of Union Hall.
Here are pictures of more than 30 such people who have been given membership of the union. Jinnah had come to AMU before partition in 1938, when he was given a membership of the Union. The union first gave Gandhiji a membership in 1920. The University does not mean directly with the decision of the student union and teachers association. Whom does he mean by calling, it does not mean from the university. Jinnah was subscribed before the partition in 1938, due to which his picture was engaged in Union Hall. MP letter is not yet received. Pro. Saife Kidwai, Member Incharge, Public Relations Department, AMU MP had courage in him, instead of writing to the Vice Chancellor, write to the Union Speaker.
Jinnah was given membership of the union before the partition, the diamonds of that time were. We treasure history. Do not tamper like RSS. Mashakur Ahmed Usmani, AMU Student Federation President Aligarh (Uttar Pradesh). Aligarh Muslim University officials on the issue of sensitive issues related to sensitive issues today clarified that the university is not under the pressure of any government agency and the university will not allow political parties to intervene directly in the campus under any circumstances. Spokesman Prof. Shafa Kidwai said that the university officials had been in the last four days Switch to have received two different letters on two controversial issues on behalf of different people.
Last week, Alamgir Muslim University (Amvivi) Vice Chancellor Tariq Mansoor, the National Self-Service Federation worker, was asked by Mo. Amir Rashid to write a letter to the association’s branch at the university campus. Similarly, BJP Lok Sabha MP Satish Gautam wrote a letter to the Vice Chancellor of the University and asked why the picture of Pakistan’s founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah was made in Amvivi’s student wing house? Though the letter of the MP has not been received by the Vice-Chancellery office yet, MP Gautam has given information to the media about this letter himself. Speaker Pro Kidwai on the issue of the National Self-Service Association’s branch said that no political party Or will not allow the organization’s camp or branch to be placed in the premises.
He said that VC College, AMU Staff Association, AMU Student Union, occasionally invites political leaders and social workers in various programs from time to time. The minister said that any political party will be allowed to intervene directly in the premises Will not give in the condition. On the question of BJP’s Lok Sabha MP Satish Gautam’s photograph of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, he said that there is a very old tradition of Amvivi that he gives lifetime membership to the great figures of major political, social and education fields. According to the record, the first lifetime membership was given to Mahatma Gandhi on October 29, 1920. In the list of great personalities who received lifetime membership, C. Rajagopal Chari, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Sarojini Naidu, Dr. CV Raman, famous British author etc. M. Forster included. He told that Jinnah was given the lifetime membership of the Amvivi Student Union in 1938. Jinnah was a founding member of the Shivali Court and he donated it.
They were given the membership when the Muslim League did not demand Pakistan. He said that the photograph of all the lifetime memberships was put in the student union. Even after Independence, Mahatma Gandhi, Maulana Azad, Dr. Radha Krishnan, Rajgopal Chari, Dr. Rajendra Prasad and Pandit Nehru never raised this issue. The person said that this photograph is a valuable symbol of the legacy of undivided India. And no one has ever raised this issue nor did he protest He said that Amvivi Student Union is an independent unit and it has got some autonomy within the purview of the Constitution of the University. No VC or governing body does not interfere in it. Although our opinion differs on many issues of the student union, but we try not to interfere in the affairs of the Amvivi administration.
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How to figure out which Tampa Bay concerts are included
Perhaps you’ve heard the news: Live Nation is celebrating its National Concert Week by offering a slew of concert tickets — 1.5 million at 2,000 shows nationwide! — for just $20 all-in, no fees.
But if you find yourself perplexed by which shows are actually part of the deal, we feel you.
The initial concert list Live Nation distributed last week included dozens of tours that were passing through Tampa and Orlando this summer and fall. But not every tour and concert was going to be part of the deal. So which ones were? We had to wait until the deal’s launch this morning to find out.
Turns out a whopping three dozen Tampa Bay concerts were included — but good luck locating all those deals. The Live Nation site launched in conjunction with the promotion listed some shows with relatively tiny allotments of tickets, some of which went quickly.
At Amalie Arena, for example, the list included Maroon 5, Shania Twain, Kevin Hart, Daryl Hall and John Oates and Train, Journey and Def Leppard, and Game of Thrones in Concert. Within hours, the only show with $20 tickets remaining appeared to be Game of Thrones. Amalie spokeswoman Angela Lanza said the more popular deals likely sold out early.
At the Mahaffey Theater and Al Lang Stadium, on the other hand, all four events listed as part of the deal — Joe Biden, David Blaine, Lauryn Hill and Counting Crows — still had $20 tickets available, said Mahaffey spokeswoman Cindy Cockburn. (You won’t see them until you click through to the Mahaffey’s ticketing system, but they should be there.)
The one concert listed for Raymond James Stadium, Luke Bryan on June 23, only had tickets listed as low as $29.75 by late morning — and those were in the back row of the upper deck.
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Roc Nation’s Kim Miale on NFL Draft success
Kim Miale, Roc Nation Sports agent, discusses breaking gender records with her client’s placement in the NFL Draft and what she sees for the future of the sport.
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‘Jan Aakrosh’ rally: Congress will win every election from now, emerge victorious in 2019, says Rahul Gandhi
Congress President Rahul Gandhi, sounding the poll bugle for the 2019 general elections, on Sunday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his continued silence over issues related to corruption, women safety, bank loan frauds and foreign ammunition deals during a ‘Jan Aakrosh rally’ in New Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan. The rally, Gandhi’s first in Delhi as party president, was organised by the Congress to corner the BJP just weeks before the Karnataka elections. Gandhi said, “The Congress will win every election from now on and will also emerge victorious in 2019.”
Slamming PM Modi for failing to deliver on his promises made in the 2014 election campaign, Rahul Gandhi said, “When PM Modi speaks, people have to search hard for shreds of truth within his speeches.” Targetting power minister Piyush Goyal over charges of corruption, Gandhi said, “Union Minister Piyush Goyal makes dubious business deals benefitting companies linked to him through his position. However, PM Modi doesn’t utter a single word on this.” He also raised last year’s Doklam standoff with China in his speech. “Modi ji did not speak a single word on Doklam during his visit to China. What kind of prime minister is he,” asked Gandhi at the rally.
Sharpening his attack against PM Modi, Gandhi also raised the recent rapes in Kathua and Unnao and the alleged crisis in the higher judiciary. “Under PM Modi, for the first time in the history of our country, Supreme Court judges have had to reach out to people for justice. For the first time an Indian prime minister was asked on foreign soil to safeguard the women of this country.”
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Dwayne Bravo is mentor to all young Chennai Super Kings bowlers,
“Bravo is massively important from two perspectives. He is an incredibly experienced cricketer. His ability to control in those middle overs, when we need some control (and) bowl to his field is wonderful to watch,” the former bowling coach of Indian team said ahead of CSK’s match against Mumbai Indians.
“The number of balls he bowls that go down the ground for one or to the square for one, he exactly knows what’s going to happen… is hugely important. And then the third component is the amount of mentorship he does for our bowlers. He does lot of talking, lot of advising,” Simons said.
However, there is room for improvement as far as CSK bowlers are concerned.
“There are certain lengths we would like to improve on, lines we would like to improve on and work on them all the time but we also very aware of the fact that this is a long tournament and we are not even near the halfway mark yet. And I feel, we are improving but we would like to give our batsmen less to chase,” he signed off.
Simons also waxed eloquent about Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s marvellous effort against Royal Challengers Bangalore the other night.
“MS might look unorthodox but he is very effective, that’s the way he plays. He reads the game. He senses where the game changes. Against the RCB the other night, it was all about reading the game, understanding who were their key bowlers and who is going to target at the back end and that’s what MS is about,” the bowling coach said.
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Records Tumble as Shreyas Iyer Slams 93* on Captaincy Debut
Shreyas Iyer has become the talk of the town after the youngster guided Delhi Daredevils to only their second win of the season against Kolkata Knight Riders at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium on Friday.
During the course of his innings, Iyer took the numero uno spot in the list of highest runs scored on captaincy debut in the Indian Premier League. Iyer surpassed the likes of Aaron Finch, Murali Vijay and Adam Gilchrist to take the top spot in this illustrious list.
Shreyas Iyer (DD): 93* vs KKR, 2018Aaron Finch (PWI): 65* vs KXIP, 2013
Murali Vijay (KXIP): 55 vs GL, 2016
Adam Gilchrist (DC): 54 vs CSK, 2008With the help of his third consecutive fifties in the IPL, Iyer has also made it into illustrious list of Indian batsmen who took least number of innings to cross the 1000-run barrier in the cash-rich league.
Sachin Tendulkar: 31
Suresh Raina: 34
Gautam Gambhir: 36
Rohit Sharma/ MS Dhoni/ Ajinkya Rahane: 37
Sourav Ganguly: 38
Shreyas Iyer: 39Iyer’s blitz against KKR helped DD register only their second win of the season and it was a very big one in terms of the margin. The 55-run defeat for KKR is their biggest in terms of runs against Delhi while it is their third biggest defeat overall.
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Ashwin’s Stern Message to Out-of-form KXIP
More often than not, a target of 133 would not be defended in today’s day and age of T20 cricket. But in the on-going season of the IPL, the Sunrisers Hyderabad have not only defended 133, but also previously managed to defend 119. On Thursday evening, when they achieved one of the said feats, the opponents or victims of some fantastic bowling and fielding was the Kings XI Punjab.
The KXIP side which has Chris Gayle at the top of the order along with KL Rahul began in their usual busy manner before Rashid Khan and Basil Thampi engineered what would be eventually a middle order collapse. After the loss of the two openers, the Punjab batsmen could manage only another 62 runs as they crumbled under pressure and succumbed to a 13-run defeat.
A rather disappointed KXIP captain R Ashwin was quoted by the Hindustan Times saying, “These things (batting collapse) happen in this kind of a tournament and Sunrisers Hyderabad’s bowling made the difference. We lost wickets throughout the middle (overs) and I thought we kept attacking a little too much and lost few wickets,” he said after the match.For Ashwin’s side, the middle-order has been a problem and it was at the forefront once again. For the Punjab franchise, the main scoring batsmen so far have been Gayle, Rahul and Karun Nair. The rest together total a little over 100 runs in the season.
After the loss, Ashwin said he hoped that batsmen will pull up their socks and come good in due course of time.
“We do have finishers but they are not coming off. You won’t get all the puzzles solved at once. Hopefully, some of the people whom we have trusted will come good at the right time. That’s how you get going. They are quality players,” he said.