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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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  • The bizarre state of Western democracy

    By Prabhat Patnaik (Posted Sep 07, 2024) Democracy in America, from the Early Republic to the Jacksonian Era. (Photo: brewminate.com) Originally published: Peoples Democracy  on September 8, 2024 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |  Class, Democracy, Empire, ImperialismAmericas, Britain, Europe, United Kingdom, United StatesNewswire DURING the entire post-war period when it has been in existence in the metropolitan countries, democracy has never been in as…

  • How censorship conquered the world, again

    The great age of rising standards of living was also the age of the marketplace of ideas; truth telling goes hand in hand with optimism. In the absence of prosperity and community cohesion, ideas are vulnerable to the censor.An engraving of Fama from Virgil’s Aeneid. Credit: piemags/rmn / Alamy Stock Photo ‘Who you gonna believe,…

  • PI Briefing | No. 35 | Summit of the Future

    In a special ceremony in New York City on 12 September, the PI will launch a comprehensive Program of Action on the New International Economic Order. In the Progressive International’s 35th Briefing of 2024, we bring the latest news from the PI’s two year long project on the New International Economic Order. Tomorrow, the 79th…

  • Dumbarton Oaks: creating a new world order

    Eighty years ago, representatives of the soon-to-be victorious allied powers gathered outside Washington DC to lay the foundations of the United Nations. Examining how delegates dealt with the enduring dilemmas of internationalism provides a lesson in how to deal with our global future.Some of the participants in the second session of the Dumbarton Oaks post-war…

  • Guide to the corridors of power

    Your guide to the corridors of power 10 September 2024Hello, In this week’s Powertrip, a political newsletter exclusively curated for TNM and NL subscribers by Dhanya Rajendran, Shabbir Ahmed, Pooja Prasanna, and Nidheesh MK, we look into the political fallout of a secret meeting between a senior Kerala cop and an RSS leader. We also look…

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