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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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  • Boats Against the Current

    The Kongunadu novels of Perumal Murugan N Kalyan Raman 30 November, 2013 THE NOVEL FIRST CAME TO TAMIL, as it did to other Indian languages, in the latter half of the 19th century, when the country was under foreign domination. Its early practitioners belonged to the upper castes and tended to be partial to themes of…

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    Click and go this blog and get to know a lot of history

  • The struggle for Saudi Arabia’s buried past

    Saudi Arabia’s expensive investment in its future has come with a concurrent focus on its archaeological past but its ambitions risk eradicating the remnants of centuries of pre-Islamic history.The Qasr Al Farid tomb in Saudi Arabia. Credit: Tuul and Bruno Morandi / Alamy Stock Photo Follow the road north from Medina, over rose-pink peaks and…

  • The folly and immorality of NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine

    Lord Robert Skidelsky: “We in the West cannot stop Ukrainians fighting to the death if they so wish, but to encourage them to do this is grossly immoral” Thomas Fazi Aug 15, 2024 This impressive article by Lord Robert Skidelsky deserves to be read by as many people as possible. Skidelsky is one of the…

  • R. Nallakannu’s fight for many forgotten freedoms

    The story of R. Nallakannu. An excerpt from P. Sainath’s book, ‘The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom’ published by Penguin, and re-published on PARI for Independence Day, 2024 “There were times during the freedom struggle, too, when things looked bleak. We were told you cannot win. You are up against the greatest empire…

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