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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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If twentieth century China was a century of revolutions, then legendary Chinese writer Ding Ling was forged out of those revolutionsSeptember 12, 2024 by Tings Chak Ding Ling in the 1930s (Photo via Wikimedia Commons) On 12 October 1904, Ding Ling (née Jiang Bingzhi) was born into a gentry family in Linli, in the Hunan province during…
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1. In the 1970s, the philosophers Samuel Gorovitz and Alasdair MacIntyre published a short essay on the nature of human fallibility that I read during my surgical training and haven’t stopped pondering since. The question they sought to answer was why we fail at what we set out to do in the world. One reason,…
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Published in 1978 in honour of the great Marxist-Leninist revolutionary hero of the Chinese people, Comrade Zhou Enlai, this archive of many unusual photos contains images of significance from throughout his remarkable life. Here we have published 55 of these photos along with some commentary from the original publication and some added new commentary. (Please…
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Posted on Tuesday, Oct 15, 2024 6:00AM by Barry Goldman by Barry Goldman The New York Times had a piece recently about a clever hustle called station flipping. It involves Citi Bikes, the blue rental bikes you see all over New York City. It seems the natural movement of people and bikes around the city results in periodic…
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Marginality: In-depth vision required T.M Krishna 29 Sep 2024, 5:00 am The presidential election in Sri Lanka is over and the parliamentary general election 2024 has been announced on November 14. In the next few months there will be a lot of talk on public platforms about the status of Sri Lankan Tamils and their…
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