[lbo-talk] On Theorizing the Demand for Demands

[Dennis Redmond]

> Man, I had forgotten all about Ghatak. But what’s the connection to the
> sloka?

The sloka shows up as a line in Tagore's "Four Chapters", which is one
of the first coherent critiques of postcolonial nationalism. Ghatak
took that radical moment in Tagore, and ran with it -- "Reason,
Argument, Story" is just a mind-boggling anticipation of the
transnational resistance movements to come.

-- DRR