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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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Raju Z Moray·November 3, 2024 AT the Bombay High Court in Mumbai, the appellate-side Bar association is known as the ‘Advocates Association of Western India’ (AAWI). Members occupy two huge halls on the ground and first floors of the heritage building. These are commonly known as ‘athra number’ (18) and ‘chhaatis number’ (36) respectively. As one discovers in…
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Siddharth Mallavarapu 16 hours ago Ta-Nehisi Coates in his new book, ‘The Message’, would like us to believe that stories can offer us serious redemption in these unsettling times. 5 min read Illustration: Pariplab Chakraborty Ta-Nehisi Coates in his new book of essays, The Message, offers us an eloquent defence of why writing matters most as a political…
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Priyanjali Malik 31/Oct/2024 5 min read We need to confront the violence that was visited on the Sikhs, and to name it. We need figures and data on how many people were affected A still used in a 2017 video of The Wire, showing a woman and a child in the aftermath of the anti-Sikh…
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By Steve Ellner & Federico Fuentes Published 1 November, 2024 Steve Ellner is an Associate Managing Editor of Latin American Perspectives and a retired professor of the Universidad de Oriente in Venezuela. He has recently written a series of articles in Monthly Review, Science and Society and Latin American Perspectives arguing in favour of the left prioritising the struggle against US imperialism. In this broad-ranging interview…
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Siddharth’s Echelon His father Dev Raj Khanna was a judge in Delhi High Court. His uncle Hans Raj Khanna was judge in Supreme Court. I wanted to make a thread of Nepotism, but an ounce of integrity stopped me. Rather, it is of good Karma. Why? Read how Sanjiv Khanna’s appointment will be a penance…
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