by Rohan Pethiyagoda Like you, I’ve been watching the elaborate preparations that the government’ has been making for the Independence Day celebrations, spending hundreds of millions of rupees on an extravagant display of power, apparently without a care in the world that poverty has reduced many children in this country to just a single meal […]
French watchmaker Balthazar Martinot s 17th century grandfather clock and Emiliano Di Cavalcanti s oil on canvas painting were damaged by Brazilian insurrectionists on Sunday.
The violent celebrations of the 200th anniversary of Brazilian Independence on September 7 amid the preparations for an electoral coup has laid bare the lack of any constituency for democratic forms of rule within the country’s ruling class.