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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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  • Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey

    Reading Capital Courses: Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 1 with David Harvey – 2019 Edition A close reading of the text of Karl Marx’s Capital Volume I in 12 video lectures by Professor David Harvey. Recorded at The People’s Forum in New York City in 2019. Links to the complete course: YouTube Playlist Podcast available on Spotify, iTunes, PodBean, and RSS. Course Materials: Reading Marx’s Capital Volume I with…

  • The Asian world order

    Before modern Europe existed there was a grand, interconnected political world, rich in scientific and artistic exchange he process that gave rise to Eurocentrism in social sciences and history is somewhat comparable to the follies of youth. Little children have difficulty believing that their parents existed before their birth. Teenagers often think that they are…

  • Unmarriageability, subclassification and the persistence of caste— Part 1

    A.B. Karl Marx Siddharthar·August 16, 2024 This article, first of a two-part series, delves into how Unmarriageability is the spearhead against the Supreme Court’s recent judgment that denied reservation for the ‘creamy layer’ belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.  — UNMARRIAGEABILITY has the resistance to thwart anti-reservation outlooks and efforts. It is the spearhead…

  • Maoism in a Nutshell

    How the “spiritual atom bomb” wrecked China Craig Willy Aug 24, 2024 My maternal grandfather was a manager in the British textile industry. In that capacity, he traveled to China in 1971 and acquired the above second-edition copy of Mao Zedong’s “Little Red Book.” The 1966 Foreword by Lin Piao, Vice Premier of China and…

  • Kottukkaali: The best Indian film of the year so far proves that PS Vinothraj is an unparalleled poet of the people – THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS

     A still from Kottukkaali. Unlike his more mainstream contemporaries, who are often complicit in the silencing of women through their so-called progressive cinema, director PS Vinothraj attempts to expose the oppression of ancient systems by questioning his own position in them. His decision to restrict the titular ‘Adamant Girl’ of his latest feature, Kottukkaali, to essentially…

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