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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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  • Everything You Should Know About the Hema Report That Has Opened Pandora’s Box in the Malayalam Film Industry

    The panel members submitted the report to Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan on December 31, 2019. (File pic)Courtesy- The Hindu The Mooknayak English New Delhi- The Hema Committee report has recently sparked widespread discussion, with numerous actors commenting on it. However, few are truly aware of what this report entails. The report reveals the terrifying truth…

  • The intellectuals and the workers

    Karl Kautsky (1854-1938), the ‘Pope of Marxism’, wrote the following article when he was the major theoretician of the German Social Democracy. It first appeared in Die Neue Zeit (Vol.XXII, no.4, 1903), the journal which Kautsky edited from 1883 to 1917, and appeared in English in the April 1946 edition of Fourth International.Part of the very problem which…

  • The Decline, Disorientation and Decomposition of a Leadership:

    The German Communist Party: From Revolutionary Marxism to CentrismPART I From Revolutionary History, Vol.2 No.3, Autumn 1989. Used by permission. This general account of the fortunes of the KPD first saw the light in 1985 as part of an attempt to draw out its political lessons for the use of revolutionaries working in the labour movement.…

  • The haunting presence of Stanley Kubrick

    Twenty-five years after his death, Stanley Kubrick remains the most influential director in English-language cinema, yet his influence will be felt less and less if the industry continues its inexorable decline.Still from Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. Credit: Album / Alamy Stock Photo The most commercially successful film of last year, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, may have attracted…

  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez & the history that inspired “One Hundred Years of Solitude”

    1982 Nobel Prize for Literature Jeff Rich Aug 31, 2024 Article voiceover 1× 0:00 -22:55 The most famous writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature between 1982 and 1988 was Gabriel García Márquez, the great ‘magical realist’ Colombian novelist. My approach in these weekly posts of the 120 Nobels Challenge has been to cover…

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