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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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Forthcoming! A ROTTEN CROWD, By John Marsh (EXCERPTS) Filed: Excerpts New & Recently Released A Rotten Crowd: America, Wealth, and One-Hundred Years of The Great Gatsbyby John Marsh136 pages / $19.95 / 978-1-68590-083-0 Excerpted from Chapter 2: Among the Ash Heaps and Millionaires “But I wanted to leave things in order and not just trust that obliging and indifferent…
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Arundhati Roy’s PEN Pinter Prize 2024 speech. PEN Transmissions is English PEN’s magazine for international and translated voices. PEN’s members are the backbone of our work, helping us to support international literature, campaign for writers at risk, and advocate for the freedom to write and read. If you are able, please consider becoming an English PEN…
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V.P. CHINTAN MEMORIAL Second LECTURE delivered by IRFAN HABIB in Madras 19th September 1988 INDIAN SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, MADRAS PROBLEMS OF MARXIST HISTORIOGRAPHY Second V.P.CHINTAN MEMORIAL LECTURE delivered by IRFAN HABIB in Madras, 19 September, 1988 INDIAN SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES MADRAS FIRST EDITION : OCTOBER 1989Published on behalf of INDIAN SCHOOL OF SOCIAL…
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In a striking reversal of history’s pattern where technological progress and liberalism reinforced each other, today’s innovations threaten to tip the balance toward authoritarianism, ending three centuries of partnership between technological advancement and human freedom.A cartoon lampooning the 19th-century ‘robber barons’. Credit: Science History Images / Alamy Stock Photo For three centuries, the broad direction…
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For humanity’s fight against climate change to gain real momentum, we need to find the selfless courage that comes when our time is inevitably nigh. Susie Ang for Noema Magazine EssayClimate Crisis By Pamela SwaniganOctober 15, 2024 FacebookTwitterEmail Pamela Swanigan is a Vancouver-based writer and editor. She is an inaugural winner of the annual Berggruen Prize Essay…
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