byGary Saul Morson On The Gulag Archipelago at fifty. When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation appeared in 1973, its impact, the author recalled, was immediate: “Like matter enveloped by antimatter, it exploded instantaneously!” The first translations into Western languages in 1974—just fifty years ago—proved almost as sensational. No longer was it so easy to…

We can shout truth to power and it will never be heard, because truth and politics don’t stand on common ground. Samantha Rose Hill 25 October 2020, 8.16pm “…how vulnerable is the whole texture of facts in which we spend our daily life; it is always in danger of being perforated by single lies or…

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https://www.boomlive.in/mediabuddhi/what-about-scroll-the-quint-the-wire-and-the-news-minute-10806 It’s exactly 91 days since the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput. 91 days since TV news plumbed new depths in standards. Time enough for people to have started looking for better sources of news. But whom to trust? A couple of weeks ago, my friend Kshiti texted me this question: “I don’t follow…