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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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January/February 2012 Issue The creator of Brain Pickings on how to think outside the corporate box. Maryana Ferguson/Maria Popova Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. For years, Maria Popova’s septuagenarian grandmother in Bulgaria wished her granddaughter would just do the sensible thing and get an MBA.Instead, the 27-year-old…
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By Alan MacLeod (Posted Mar 27, 2025) Originally published: MintPress News on March 25, 2025 (more by MintPress News) | Human Rights, Inequality, Movements, TerrorismAmericas, United StatesNewswireBetar (Brit Yosef Trumpeldor), Mahmoud Khalil, President Donald Trump, Ross Glick A far-right, pro-Israel group with a history of support for terror and genocide is working closely with the Trump administration, preparing dossiers on thousands of pro-Palestine figures…
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Friends, if the website is to continue, it must be supported by its readers. PRIVACY POLICY The Digital Revolution Equals Communism Finally, equality has arrived. Artificial intelligence greatly empowers scammers and malevolent uses of the Internet. Malwarebytes provides updates on the latest threats. Here are a couple: Fake CAPTCHA websites hijack your clipboard to install…
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By Shadman Ali Khan The Communist Party of India (Marxist) used to have a mass base among West Bengal’s landless Muslim peasants. Today, their poor relations symbolize the party’s decline. Our new issue, “Progress,” is out now. Subscribe to our print edition at a discounted rate today. In recent years, Kerala, a southern Indian state long governed…
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Apoorvanand 27/Mar/2025 5 min read Institutions like Jnanpith are making efforts to give the language of violence legitimacy. Will our writers not see through it and refuse to be part of it? This year’s Jnanpith Award has gone to Vinod Kumar Shukla, one of the greatest Indian writers alive. Naturally, the literary world has welcomed…
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