Culture

24 Feb

We Want to Build Communities of Readers, Not Turn Readers into Commodities: The Eighth Newsletter (2025)

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Originally From: https://thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/red-books-day-2025/ Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. There are days when the dusk of events settles heavily on me, and I try to find a way to retreat into a quiet corner and throw myself into the world of a book. It does not matter if it is a novel or a history book, as long as the author is able to conjure up a world that transports me from the flood of brutalities to an island of imagination. In recent months, I have been reading more and more novels – including…

11 Feb

The Joy of Reading…

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:Contact: Nitheesh Narayanannitheesh@thetricontinental.org11 February 2025 Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research releases a new dossier on the role that reading and popular literacy programmes played in twentieth-century revolutionary processes and beyond. In the early twentieth century, peasants and workers led revolutionary movements in the poorer nations to overthrow the old regimes of landlordism. In these contexts, reading itself became a powerful tool for emancipation, as it empowered the masses to challenge authority and build egalitarian forms of being and belonging. This tradition continues today, from the library movement in Kerala (India) to Red Books Day celebrations across the world.Dossier…