Remembering K Balagopal

Tributes to K. Balagopal, tireless activist for human rights and for justice

Quintessential Intellectual-Activist

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By P A Sebastian and Bernard D’Mellow in EPW

K Balagopal’s role as a civil liberties and democratic rights activist had two phases – the first, when the opening sentence of the Communist Manifesto and Marx’s last thesis on Feuerbach guided his life’s activity, and the second, when, even as he gave up on these precepts, he continued in the tradition of practical humanism.

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November 18th, 2009 at 4:30 pm

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