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Mullaperiyar: Dam nuisance
A lifeline for Tamil Nadu is now life-threatening in Kerala. K.A. Shaji explores arguments for and against a new dam K.A. Shaji Published: 30 Aug 2026, 4:05 PM Ever heard of Colonel John Pennycuick? You’ll find a statue of him in faraway Surrey — donated by Tamil Nadu. It was the then M.K. Stalin government…
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Bourdieu, Calvino and Eccentric Home Design The Humanities Library Nov 16, 2024 This week I heard a very old, very Mancunian (it’s the accent spoken by the people of Manchester, England, where I live) voice on the bus angrily proclaiming that Manchester wasn’t the same anymore, it had “turned to sh**.” If you’re “in town”…
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By: Charles Bukowski Poetic Outlaws Nov 20, 2024 a woman, a tire that’s flat, a disease, a desire: fears in front of you, fears that hold so still you can study them like pieces on a chessboard… it’s not the large things that send a man to the madhouse. death he’s ready for, or murder,…
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As outgoing Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin embarks on his twelfth tour of the Indo-Pacific, the US’s New Cold War on China shows no signs of slowing down, even under a second Trump presidency. 21 November 2024 Heri Dono (Indonesia), Two Guards Who Protect Their Leaders, 2013. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social…
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Robert Barsky examines the profound impact of Orwell’s “Homage to Catalonia” on Noam Chomsky’s early embrace of left-libertarian and anarchist ideologies. By: Robert F. Barsky Unlike the many members of the left who captivated him as a young man — such as Dwight Macdonald, George Orwell, and Bertrand Russell — Noam Chomsky himself did…
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Towards a Labour International Dear friend,The struggle for justice is not a spectator sport. The West’s political-media class won’t challenge the genocide it arms and supports. We have to take action ourselves, wherever we are, if we want to confront the grave crimes against the Palestinians. Israel’s war machine is enabled by the financial, military, diplomatic,…
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