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Marx on a dating app: Why I'll only swipe right for Left

July 29, 2025 3:56 pm

The truth is, if there’s any life advice worth heeding over 'opposites attract,' it’s the far less glamorous, but infinitely more reliable 'be practical'

Karl Marx’s grave gets a Labubu toy, Internet says, ‘just as God intended’

July 24, 2025 2:54 pm

Labubu is a mass-produced collectible doll, a wide-eyed, gremlin-like figure that’s become something of a cult obsession.

narayana murthy 70-hour work week, work life balance

Dear Narayana Murthy, here’s why you need to read Karl Marx, Thoreau and John Ruskin

November 02, 2023 10:23 pm

We need to rescue the power of our imagination or aspiration for good and meaningful life from what Murthy seems to be pleading for — work, work and work with the sole aim of ‘economic prosperity’

Manmohan Bahadur writes: Soldiers in the digital age

July 31, 2023 12:19 pm

The challenge is to detoxify the mass that enters at the training institution level and drill in the fact that in the armed forces, all Indians are seen as just Indians

Menaka Guruswamy writes: Can AI be communist?

July 22, 2023 9:15 am

How different nations could legislate AI will be contingent on the underpinnings of their politico-legal systems. Chinese and American regulations suggest diverse trajectories before nations

Wagner mercenaries train Belarus special forces near Polish border

July 20, 2023 5:40 pm

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was shown in a video on Wednesday welcoming his fighters to Belarus, telling them they would take no further part in the Ukraine war for now but ordering them to gather their strength for Africa while they trained the Belarusian army.

Young white-collar workers in China are opting for less stressful blue-collar options. Karl Marx could have predicted this

Express View on young white-collar workers in China opting for blue-collar jobs: Karl Marx could have predicted this

April 13, 2023 7:02 am

Now, on social media, the stars are not dudes with big cars, but people who've given up success for the good life.

In this François Bouchot painting Napoleon Bonaparte is surrounded by members of the Council of Five Hundred during the Coup of 18 Brumaire.

UPSC Essentials | Said by Karl Marx, This Quote Means: ‘History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce’

June 26, 2023 4:19 pm

The quote has made its way to common usage through the years. UPSC has also used it in its essay paper from the CSE Mains examinations in 2021. It can also be used by a candidate to articulate their arguments better — a thorough understanding of the quote and its origins can help with that.

Karl Marx, and workers protesting on the right with Communist party flags.

UPSC Essentials | This Quote Means: 'The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains'

June 26, 2023 4:24 pm

On the centenary week of the USSR's official creation, a look at a famous quote from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that inspired the Soviet experiment. It also finds relevance in the World History section of the UPSC syllabus, under GS paper 1.

A Capital gain in last 100 yrs: Marx in Punjabi

November 22, 2022 8:23 am

Dwarka Das Library, which shifted from Lahore to Delhi to Chandigarh after Partition, has in its collection the first English edition of Capital (1887). It is a fair conjecture that Bhagat Singh would have accessed it.