K karunakaran autobiography definition
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“EMS was making sure that Gouriamma was politically finished.”
For more than 40 years, a red-facaded building in Thiruvananthapuram, adorned with a golden hammer and sickle, has been the headquarters of the Kerala unit of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). This is the famed AKG Centre, from where the CPI(M)’s policies and positions are decided and communicated. This, too, is where many of the cloak-and-dagger battles within the party take place, hidden from public view.
In February 1994, G. Shaktidharan, then a 30-year-old editor who worked at Deshabhimani, the party’s Malayalam-language mouthpiece, was summoned to the AKG Centre to meet with its seniormost leaders. Among them was the iconic EMS Namboodiripad, who had served as the first non-Congress chief minister of any Indian state. Also in attendance were E.K. Nayanar, who had by then served two terms as chief minister; and P. Karunakaran, Deshabhimani’s general manager.
Shaktidharan, known for his high-profi
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A Birth Centenary Biography on MGR
by Sachi Sri Kantha, June 28, 2017
Book Review: R. Kannan, MGR – A Life, Penguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd, Gurgaon, Haryana, 2017, 495 pages, 599 Indian rupees.
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Forgetting Unwanted Memories: Active Forgetting and Implications for the Development of Psychological Disorders
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Intrusive memories are a common feature of many psychopathologies, and suppression-induced forgetting of unwanted memories appears as a critical ability to preserve mental health. In recent years, biological and cognitive studies converged in revealing that forgetting is due to active processes. Recent neurobiological studies provide evidence on the active role of main neurotransmitter systems in forgetting, suggesting that the brain actively works to suppress retrieval of unwanted memories. On the cognitive side, there fryst vatten evidence that voluntary and involuntary processes (here termed “intentional” and “incidental” forgetting, respectively) contribute to active forgetting. In intentional forgetting, an inhibitory control mechanism suppresses awareness of unwanted memories at encoding or retrieval. In incidental forgetting, retrieval practice of some memories inv