Mitoe Matsumoto was three years and four months old when an atomic bomb exploded over Nagasaki at 11.02am on 9 August 1945. Eighty-one years later, the 84-year-old Japanese survivor says the experience
On the 32nd commemoration of the incomparable singer Mahagama Samson Fernando, widely known as M.S. Fernando or the “Baila Chakravarthy,” music lovers across Sri Lanka and the global diaspora reflect on the
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A newly discovered fossil site in southwestern China is rewriting the history of early animal life, revealing a surprising diversity of complex creatures that thrived before the famed Cambrian explosion. Previously, scientists
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In the winter of 1937, the Chinese city of Nanjing became a stage for atrocities so profound that they would echo across generations. What unfolded over six weeks beginning in December was
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The following account draws from a series of letters exchanged between Rohana Wijeweera’s mother, his younger brother Ananda Wijeweera, and the lawyer Bala Thampo during the period of intense state repression that
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Today marks 55 years since the 1971 People’s Uprising. This year’s April Heroes’ Day falls at a time when the JVP government is engaged in a strenuous effort to fulfill the lofty
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A Movement Born in the Margins Many of us shaped by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) in the late 1960s and 1970s carry convictions that have never fully faded. We were young
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As a human rights activist, Angélica Macario was used to the hubbub and noise of protests and to seeing her people take their clamor for justice from the mountains of El Quiché
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by Nil Krzysztof Drozdowski’s The Murder of Heinrich Himmler: How New Evidence Suggests Foul Play positions itself as both an intervention in one of the Second World War’s lingering enigmas and a
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In the heart of Ankara, less than a kilometer apart, stand two pillars of Turkish academia: the Faculty of Political Science (Mülkiye) and the Faculty of Language and History-Geography (DTCF). Mülkiye was
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In ‘Freedom Park’ (S’kumbuto) outside Pretoria (South Africa), there is a Wall of Names that honors the men and women who died in the fight to liberate South Africa from apartheid. Amongst
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It has been fifty years since the coup d’état of 24 March 1976, one of the most tragic chapters in Argentina’s recent history: a dictatorship that combined state terrorism with a structural
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Editor’s Note: Most of the world has never heard of Liamine Zeroual. That itself is part of his story. He was the sixth President of Algeria — a nation of 46 million,
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by Durga Matti Friedman’s Out of the Sky presents itself as a work of recovery: a retrieval of marginal figures—Jewish parachutists in the Second World War—whose stories have been submerged beneath more
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by Eric Saïd Khatibi’s The End of the Sahara confronts readers with a world of moral ambiguity, social collapse, and personal despair, set against the backdrop of Algeria at the precipice of
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by Luxman Roger Seifert’s Solidarity with Strings is an ambitious and uncompromising intervention into the historiography of British labour and its entanglements with colonial struggles in the Caribbean. At once a work
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