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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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Ankit Raj and Shruti Sharma 15 minutes ago 5 min read The president of the Hardayal Public School is Anuradha Yadav who, along with members of her family, has campaigned for the BJP multiple times. Anuradha Yadav in the red circle (Photo: Facebook/Shekhar Yadav), Hardayal Public School (Photo: Ankit Raj/The Wire) and BJP leader Shekhar…
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It is essential for them to learn what happens when a community has ‘no hope and no sense of justice’. Raheel Dhattiwala 7 hours ago READ IN APP Indian school textbook writers recently trimmed the contents of the curriculum to exclude the Babri mosque demolition and riots in its wake. In doing so, India has joined the…
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In Honour of the Anniversary of the Birth of Georgi Dimitrov. Today is the anniversary of the birth of the great Bulgarian Communist leader Georgi Dimitrov (June 18, 1882 to July 2, 1949). A major figure in the Communist International prior to WWII, Dimitrov is perhaps most famous for his exceptionally courageous and inspiring defense…
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Though the Dollar-Wall Street regime remains significantly powerful, de-dollarisation and possibilities of a shifting global order are being driven by US economic weakness, the aggressive use of illegal sanctions by the US and its Global North allies, and the growing political and economic strength of the Global South through platforms such as BRICS. 20 JUNE…
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Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks. The Earth and I James Lovelock et al. Taschen (2024) Environmentalist James Lovelock, who died in 2022, is known for having proposed the Gaia hypothesis — that Earth is a self-regulating, complex system. With his last book, first published in German in 2017, he wished to prevent people from…
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