Category: mādhyayak

1919

Chinese students demonstrate in Beijing, sparking the anti-Confucian New Culture Movement. “Wanting to eat men, at the same time afraid of being eaten themselves,
they all eye each other with the deepest suspicion.”

1789

The Marquis de Sade is moved from the Bastille prison to Charenton, days before French revolutionaries storm it and set fire to his writings there.
“No act of possession can ever be perpetrated on a free being; it is as unjust to own a wife monogamously as it is to own slaves.”

1937

The Basque town of Guernica is destroyed in an aerial bombing by German and Italian forces, in one of the most sordid episodes of the Spanish Civil War.
“Faces good in firelight good in frost
Refusing the night the wounds the blows.”

 

1888

Li Dazhao, librarian, intellectual,
and co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party, is born.

“China is a rural nation and most of the laboring class consists of peasants.
Unless they are liberated, our whole nation will not be liberated.”