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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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Partha P Majumder 1,* PMCID: PMC4779617 PMID: 26837547 His mother wrote “I taught him to read quite early—partly in self-defence, for when he became absorbed in a book he ceased to ask questions.” To prove to him that methane was lighter than air and to demonstrate the effects of breathing methane, his father took him crawling into a…
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By Eigil zu Tage-Ravn In his Truth and Method (1960), the German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer insisted affectingly that human understanding is an essentially historical process. The “meaning” of texts (novels, poems), the significance of past eras or events (WWII, the Renaissance) — none of this can ever be, somehow, “settled” or “put to rest”. On the contrary, because we are…
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Madhu Sudan Chatterjee 23/Mar/2025 Once among the best in the country, West Bengal’s education system is in dire state now with rising student dropouts, especially of girls, lack of teachers, school closures and rise of RSS-affiliated schools. Only one teacher runs the Teliya Bhasa Junior high school in Ayodhya hill, Purulia sistrict, West Bengal. Scene…
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A interview with Tariq Ali, the ‘street fighting man’, about stalled revolutions, the Emergency, challenges of independent publishing, and cancel culture. Manaswini Sen Mar 23, 2025 · 09:00 am Read in App Nineteen-sixty-seven was a turbulent year. After the Arab World was shaken by the shocking defeat in the June War against Israel, Tariq Ali…
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Reflections in Honor of the Twentieth Anniversary of Levins and Lewontin’s The Dialectical Biologist by Brett Clark and Richard York (May 01, 2005) Topics: Marxist Ecology Brett Clark is a graduate student in sociology at the University of Oregon and coauthor of “Ecological Imperialism: The Curse of Capitalism,” Socialist Register 2004. Richard York teaches sociology at the University of Oregon. His research, which focuses…
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