Hari Kumar discusses “Madame Butterfly” and how to grapple with charges of cultural appropriation in opera.
Articles by Hari Kumar
Why did the USA drop its Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? A Remembrance
Contrary to USA mythology, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima did not prevent masses of further US troop deaths.
The Warsaw Rising, August 1, 1944
The Uprising, 79 years ago, was doomed to failure
What just happened in Russia?
Putin and the failed coup leader Prigozhin are two peas in the same pod
National Poetry Month: Pablo Neruda (1904–1973)
As new reports suggest that the Chilean poet was poisoned, Hari Kumar looks at his legacy