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  • முதலாளி vs. புத்தர்

    விஜய் பிராசாத் முதலாளி தன் காரில் அமர்ந்திருக்கிறான் அவன் கண்கள் சாலையை நோக்கியிருக்கின்றன; அவன் வாழ்க்கையை இலாபத்தால் அளவிடுகிறான், அவன் மனசாட்சிக்கு எந்தச் சுமையையும் சுமப்பதில்லை. அவன் வீடற்றவர்களைப் பார்க்கமாட்டான் அல்லது கண்ணாடியைத் தட்டும் குழந்தையைப் பார்க்கமாட்டான், அவன் தனக்குச் சொந்தமானவற்றின் மீதே தன் பார்வையை வைத்திருக்கிறான் அவர்களின் துயரங்கள் கடந்துபோக விடுகிறான். ஒரு பெண் பசியால் இறக்கலாம், ஒரு குழந்தை வாசிக்க ஏங்கலாம், ஆனால் அவனோ மற்றவர்களின் செல்வத்தைச் சுரண்டுகிறான் தன் முடிவற்ற பேராசைக்கு உணவளிக்க.…

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  • Caste and the Delusion of “Merit” in Indian Higher Education

    By Namit Arora | Aug 2020 (This essay first appeared in The Caravan, where it has had many comments. Its full text is also on Magster.)The great engineers of medieval India were mainly Shudras. Members of the lowest varna in the caste hierarchy, the Shudras produced a steady supply of architects, builders, stonemasons, bronze sculptors,…

  • Why China Will Rule AI

    Open societies are at a disadvantage. By Nathan GardelsSeptember 22, 2026 Nathan Gardels is the editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine. He is also the co-founder of and a senior adviser to the Berggruen Institute. In his 2013 book, “The End of Power,” Moisés Naim famously wrote that “power no longer buys as much as it did…

  • The limits of Pankaj Mishra’s reckoning with Zionism and the Gaza genocide

    Pankaj Mishra’s ‘The World After Gaza’ searches for common ground between diverse histories of suffering, but his centring of Jewish trauma leaves Palestine diminished. Esmat Elhalaby, by contrast, recovers a forgotten history of anticolonial solidarity. ByRahul Rao Published:September 22, 2026 EVEN AS THE GENOCIDE in Gaza continues, and also the wider conflagration it has unleased…

  • “Reading the World” is a new documentary about Paulo Freire

    “Reading the World” is a new documentary about Paulo Freire, the acclaimed Brazilian educator whose revolutionary approach to teaching connected literacy to critical thinking and democratic participation. It draws on rare archival footage of 1960s Brazil and weaves together the memories of farmers, students and educators who took part in Freire’s culture circles, his method…

  • “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.” – George Orwell (1946)

    “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.” – George Orwell (1946) George Orwell’s personal experiences gave him firsthand insight into the political structures he would later examine in his writing. Born Eric Arthur Blair in 1903, he served in the British colonial police in Burma, experienced poverty among working-class communities…

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