Indian police make arrest after Lenin statue is bulldozed
- 06-Mar-2018
NEW DELHI: India’s ruling party warned its supporters on Tuesday they were not above the law after a mob celebrating an election victory against communist opponents bulldozed a statue of Vladimir Lenin. Police in the remote state of Tripura said they were investigating more than a dozen complaints of arson, violence and vandalism in the […]
Five things to know about Lenin’s mummified body
- 28-Oct-2017
Almost 94 years after his death and a quarter century after the fall of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin’s mummified body continues to be displayed in a mausoleum on Red Square in Moscow. Though the question of what to do about Lenin’s body comes up regularly in Russia, authorities have so far been reluctant to […]
Russia conflicted on how to mark 100 years since revolutions
- 15-Mar-2017
MOSCOW: It was the year that ended centuries of royal rule, brought two revolutions, ushered in Soviet domination and changed the course of Russian history irrevocably. A century later, the country seems unsure how to treat the tumultuous events of 1917 that saw it hurtle from the abdication of the last tsar Nicholas II to […]
The portrait of Russia’s last tsar was hidden for 100 years
- 19-Nov-2016
SAINT PETERSBURG: Russian art restorers on Friday unveiled a recently discovered portrait of the last Tsar Nicholas II, almost a century after it was hidden behind a giant painting of his Bolshevik foe Lenin. A team of art restorers led by Tatiana Potseluyeva painstakingly uncovered the tsar’s image over the last three years. The portrait of […]
Body politics: The preserved corpses of famous people
- 11-Sep-2016
BEIJING:The embalmed body of Mao Zedong lies at the symbolic centre of the Chinese Communist Party, an object of veneration for loyal cadres, and of fascination for foreign tourists.
Top Five Most Notable Revolutions of the World
- 15-Aug-2014
As Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) workers and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) are making the youth jump on their revolution and freedom from corrupt autocratic rule bandwagon in Pakistan. The debate about what is actually a revolution is on the rise in the country.