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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 Telugu People’s Struggle for Land and Dreams

    This dossier catalogues the immense cultural production of the Telangana armed struggle in India and how it inspired the people to participate in cycles of protest against colonialism, monarchy, and landlordism, building on the idea that art and culture are both produced by the class struggle and, in turn, produce the class struggle. In a…

  • This Can’t Be It

    ByBen Burgis In last night’s debate, Kamala Harris rightly insisted that much of the country is exhausted by and ready to move on from Trump. But we deserve to move on to something better and more substantive than what Harris had to offer. “Town & Country,” our focusing on rural politics, is out now. Subscribe to…

  • ‘Poor Economics for Kids’: Nobel laureate Esther Duflo’s book for children imagines a fair world

    The book has been translated from English into five Indian languages – Bengali, Marathi, Kannada, Tamil and Hindi. Anwesha Sengupta Aug 18, 2024 · 05:30 pm Nobel laureate Esther Duflo and Cheyenne Oliver’s book for young readers, Poor Economics for Children, details the struggles of the poor of the Global South through vivid illustrations and easy-to-understand text.…

  • India’s RSS and the global far-right: Expanding links, growing ambition

    By Dipankar Bhattacharya Published 4 September, 2024 MastodonFacebookTwitterEmail First published at The Wire. Cultural nationalism, the standard RSS description of its ideology, has got a new global brand name: national conservatism. The global far-right has been trying to forge a broad ideological coalition over the last five years by holding a series of NatCon (national conservatism) conferences. The…

  • How Antonio Gramsci’s Ideas Went Global

    ByMarzia Maccaferri Antonio Gramsci was twentieth-century Italy’s greatest intellectual. Fifty years ago, the English translation of Selections from the Prison Notebooks allowed his unorthodox Marxism to spread worldwide. Antonio Gramsci needs no introduction. The anti-fascist political thinker is one of the most cited Italian authors — certainly the most cited Italian Marxist ever — and one of…

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