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Sunil Janah, India’s most famous Left-wing documentary photographer, dies at 94

Sunil Janah, the leading Communist photographer of the last years of the freedom movement and early years of Independence, died on June 21 in the United States.

New York Times obituary at

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/10/world/asia/sunil-janah-who-photographed-bengal-famine-dies-at-94.html?_r=1

From a 1998 interview with Sunil Janah:

“I am still,’’ Janah says, “undoubtedly a believer in socialism.’’ Capitalism remains for him an “insane system, based on greed. Its basic feature is that the greedier you are, the higher you go – this is hardly a society, it is a wilderness.’’

The full article is below:

Documenting society and politics

Note: although the link to the photograph mentioned in the article is no longer active, the photograph was archived from the link, and is here.

A literary life: Zhou Ruchang and Dream of the Red Chamber

Zhou Ruchang (1918-2012), a great literary scholar, devoted virtually all his life to the study of Cao Xueqin’s incomparable 18th century classic:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-06/02/content_15453897.htm

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/life/2009-12/22/content_9212364.htm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/9390481/Zhou-Ruchang.html

http://www.globaltimes.cn/NEWS/tabid/99/ID/712749/Red-giant-passes.aspx

‘For the digital revolution, this is the Robespierre moment’, Simon Jenkins, Guardian

‘Total disclosure means the onset of a new terror, a retreat to a kind of sofa government beyond freedom of information…If there is a public interest in revelation, there is surely sometimes a public interest in confidence.’

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/10/digital-revolution-robespierre-moment