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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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By Nietzsche, Steinbeck, Pope and Others The Humanities Library Mar 22, 2025 55 With the world doing its best to wear us down at the moment, I’ve been having a rummage around the bookshelves for a little tonic. The resulting anthology this week brings together voices from across time and disciplines, each grappling with what…
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This article is more than 6 years old The author of global bestseller Sapiens is back, with a self-help guide for a bewildering age – and its sweeping statements are peppered with truly mind-expanding observations Helen LewisWed 15 Aug 2018 07.30 BSTShare134 Yuval Noah Harari’s career is a publishing fairytale. An obscure Israeli academic writes a…
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Saturday 22 March 2025, by Faraz Ahmad#socialtags ShareFacebookTwitterWhatsAppBlogger Prakash Karat, the coordinator of the Politburo and Central Committee of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) has circulated the Draft resolution for the 24th party Congress of the CPM scheduled next month in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. In the section called ‘Political Line’, the draft states that the 11-year-old…
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When you first arrived home from the hospital you should ask your mom and dad how much Mogli showed his happiness and how he was jumping in joy. It was some day in march may the end of march 2025 you were imitating and repeating your mom’s crackling sound it was so funny we all…
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Prasanth Bhushan My piece in today’s Hindu on the Justice Yashwant Verma affair.We need a full time body indep of the govt to select judges in a transparent manner after laying down a criteria.We also need a judicial complainants body, indep of govt & judiciary to deal with judicial misconduct.
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