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Claustropolis: 1984
“Claustropolis: 1984” is excerpted from a forthcoming novel. In Bhopal, I could lie low. In Bhopal, there would be instructions for me. Because I had been told not to take the express, I traveled on a local, in an unreserved bogie. The whiskey was Director’s Special, a parting gift from Gupta’s people. I didn’t even…
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Maneesh Chhibber 23 hours ago 5 min read Aerial view of the Supreme Court of India. Photo: Screengrab from SCI official video New Delhi: Diwali fireworks, it seems, started almost three months in advance in the Supreme Court – on August 14 to be precise. In what was possibly his last full-court meeting as Chief Justice…
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Originally published: Rebel on October 19, 2024 by Ken Olende (more by Rebel) | (Posted Nov 01, 2024) Imperialism, Inequality, Movements, State RepressionAfrica, Americas, Britain, Europe, Middle East, United StatesNewswireFrantz Fanon Frantz Fanon’s defence of armed resistance against colonialism is timely in the light of the genocidal violence currently being carried out by Israel, armed and supported by the U.S. and Britain. He…
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And the US’s habits of primacy are a key reason why. Sarang ShidoreShare Yet another COP comes along with another round of bad news on our climate failure. Nobody who seriously follows climate change believes anymore that the world will stay within the 1.5 C “safe” limit of warming. Breaching the even more dangerous 2 C threshold is…
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There are many ways of consuming the US elections from a distance. The most instructive among them might just be the philosopher’s perspective of it. Written by Yogendra YadavUpdated: November 5, 2024 11:59 IST 7 min read A fracas during a village wedding, not a very uncommon sight, can rip apart the carefully crafted veil of…
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Publication of the forum of Indian leftists Volume 1: Number 2 November 26, 1997 Showing our True Colors: Culture, Nation and the Left by Priyamvada Gopal “The political left is then doubly disabled: if it seeks to evolve its own discourse of place, body, inheritance, sensuous need, it will find itself miming the cultural forms…
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