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Ayutthaya Historical Park, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, Thailand
Ayutthaya city is the capital of Ayutthaya province in Thailand. Located in the valley of the Chao Phraya River, the city was founded in 1350 by King U Thong, who went there to escape a smallpox outbreak in Lop Buri and proclaimed it the capital of his kingdom, often referred to as the Ayutthaya kingdom or Siam. Ayutthaya became the second Siamese capital after Sukhothai. It is estimated that Ayutthaya by the year 1600 CE had a population of about 300,000, with the population perhaps reaching 1,000,000 around 1700 CE, making it one of the world's largest cities at that time, when it was sometimes known as the "Venice of the East".
In 1767, the city was destroyed by the Burmese army, resulting in the collapse of the kingdom. The ruins of the old city are preserved in the Ayutthaya historical park, which is recognised internationally as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The ruins, characterised by the prang (reliquary towers) and gigantic monasteries, give an idea of the city's past splendour. Modern Ayutthaya was refounded a few kilometres to the east.
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The Columbus (Georgia) Museum - June 15, 2024
"Celebrate creativity and culture through the experience of American art, regional history, tranquil gardens, and more. As a destination for people of all interests and ages, COMU has something for everyone — from the art enthusiast to the history buff, the nature lover to the leisure visitor — it's free and it's all in one space! "
"With current exhibitions dedicated to women artists of the 20th century, local blues and folk music legends, and the whimsy of Andy Warhol, there are plenty of good reasons to visit The Columbus Museum this summer. But the best reason of all? To check out the "reimagined" museum itself, which just went through its first major renovation in 35 years."
Following a grand reopening celebration last month, the museum — known around town as COMU — is now welcoming back art and history fans with an exciting lineup of current and upcoming exhibitions. Those include "Our Own Work Our Own Way: Ascendant Women Artists in the Johnson Collection" (on view through September 2024), the interactive "Andy Warhol: Silver Clouds & Cow Wallpaper" (on view through January 2025), and a multimedia exhibit called "Crossroads: Chattahoochee Valley Blues & Folk Music" (on view through March 2025).
COMU is located at 1251 Wynnton Road in Columbus, and regular museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursdays, and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays. Oh, and we should mention: admission is always free."
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"Big things are happening in Columbus. From headline-making baseball news that will create a “mini-Truist Park” in the city to a major industrial expansion and the complete reimagination of a museum, Columbus’ spot on the state map is turning into a star."
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Long ago I went to a group therapy workshop where we spent time working on our dysfunctional relationships. We laughed, played and cried. At the end of the workshop we were told to bring in something special of ourselves to give to one other person in the group. This is what I received. It is a white and green stone housed in a beautiful case. I was told that it was to remind me of relationships, and how we can become enmeshed just like the two colors of the stone. I sometimes open the case and take out the stone. It helps me to reflect on what the class had taught me so long ago.
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CPI(M)'s Opportunist Tactics: Exposed In the Mirror of the Nuke Deal .
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The CPI(M)'s public stance is that it has withdrawn support from the UPA Government because that Government is .
bnng1ng about a nghtward shift in both foreign and domestic poi1C1es"(see a recent CPI(M) Booklet on Left Parties and the Nuke Deal) -c1tmg pnce nse, the Nuke Deal neoliberal econom1c pol1c1es and numerous surrenders to communal forces as mstances of this rightward shift. The question inevitably arises -why did the CPI(M) continue to allow such a rightward shift to take place for nearly the whole of the UPA's tenure? To keep out the communal forces, .
perhaps? But the CPI(M) itself says in the same passage of the booklet tl1at "Communal forces cannot be fought just on the basis ofpolitical manoeuvres. They can only be defeated through the pursuit ofan alternative set ofpolicies that mobilises and unites the people ofthe country." By failing to pursue such alternative policies, it Is the Congress~led UPA Government whtch is paving the way for the communal forces."The unfolding events ofthe nuke deal serve to highlighthow the CPI(M), m the name of fighting both communalism and imperialism, has based its tactics on nothing but 'political .
manoeuvres' rather than pnnc1ples. .
Had the CPI(M) pulled out support at a different juncture, when it could have still commanded some initiative, it might have retained at least some semblance of the claim to a moral upper hand. As it is, the CPI(M) withdrew support only .
when rendered redundant and left high and dry by the political opportunism of their own allies.The CPI(M)'s Colmbatore Congress had listed the party's success in 'forcing the UPA Govt to drop the agenda of the nuke deal' as a major;ustlfJcation for its continued support to the UPA Govt. At the same time, the CPI(M) .
's Coimbatore Congress had expressed hopes of forming a 'th1rd front' with the Samajwdi Party. Today, on both counts (of Nuke Deal and Third .
Front) the CPI(M)'s tactical line has come a cropper, and has proved Its utter bankruptcy and Ineffectiveness. The Drama Over Somnath Chatterjee: .
Nothing underlines the CPI(M)'s predicament better than the drama over "resignation" of Somnath Chatt(Brjeefrom the post of Lok Sabha Speaker. In spite of the fact that each vote will count on the trust vote on the floor of Parliament on 21-22 July, and in spite of the fact that the CPI(M), entirely justifiably, put Somnath's name on the list of MPs who would vote against the Government, Somnath had made no secret of his unwillingness to resign. Prakash Karat tned in vain to make it appear as though the party would leave it to the Speaker to decide so as not to drag that 'neutral' post mto 'needless controversy'. But this fiction could not be kept up for long. A letter to the party from Somnath let the .
cat out of the bag. In that letter, he has made it clear that the issue at hand is not so much the sanctity of the 'non-partisanship' of the Speaker's post. Rather, he has expressed his unwillingness to vote alongside the communal BJP .
against the UPA, and has said that if forced to quit his post as Speaker, he would also resign from the post of MP, so as not to have to vote alongside the BJP! West Bengal Sports Minister Subhas Chakraborty has also expressed similar sentiments publicly .
It is fairly obvious that Somnath's and Subhas' blatant challenge to party discipline and the party whipdoes not stem from some crisis ofconscience caused by having to vote with the 'communal BJP': thatplea Is simply a transparent cloak for the actual purpose ofjustifying a continued opportunist alliance with the UPA Government. The CPI(M)'s tried-and-tested and oft-deployed opportunistic taetlc of using the BJP bogey to justify any extent of opportunist alliance with the Congress, RJD or other 'secular' parties; of branding all advocates of Independent Left assertion as 'pro~BJP'; branding even opponents of SEZs and corporate land grab as 'closet communalists'-has come home to roost. Though circumstances have forced the CPI(M) to withdraw support from the UPA government, Somnath and Subhas represent the powerful trend within the CPI(M) which even in these humiliating conditions, and at the cost ofthe nation's indeoendence, are still unwilling to withdraw support from the UPA. The pious cloak of 'we don't want to vote with communal fc."Cas' is simply a convenientjustification for their stance. How is their position any different from the Samajwadi party's claim that 'Advani is more dangerous than Bush', to justify .
their about-turn and outright betrayal on the Nuke Deal? .
The entire Speaker episode too Is a monster of the CPI(M)'s own making. The CPI(M) claimed to support theUPA Government from the outside rather than join the Government; why, then, did they take the Speaker post?Wasn't the Speaker post yet another thread weaving the CPM i;1extricably into the Congress-UPA ruling establishment .
and curtailing its independence? Today as the CPI(M) seeks (out of compulsion, not principle) to extricate itself with a semblance of self-respect, that same Speaker post holds It back and keeps It enmeshed In the ruling establishment -much to the chagrin and embarrassment ofthe CPI(M) and the glee of the Congress-UPA. .
Interestingly, this opportunistic pro-Congress position Is matched Inside the CPI(M) by Its mirror Image: while the likes of Somnath are seeking to remain with the UPA, voices within and close to the CPI(M) have started softening their stand on the BJPI W Bengal State secretary Blman Bose, speaking to a media group m London on the impending vote alongside the BJP against the UPA, said that the CPi(M) had no allergy to the BJP. The . CPI(M), he said, objected to the "communal politics of the BJP", but "that does not mean the BJP all the time did onlymischief." He further elaborated that there was nothing intrinsically more dangerous about the BJP as compared to the .
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