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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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How the former footballer’s production company became the number one (and number two, and number five, and number nine and number 12) name in British podcastsBy Nick PopePublished: 04 November 2024 This article was originally published in the Winter issue of Esquire It’s a cloudy evening in the middle of June and thousands of people are swarming…
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/irelands-fight-for-freedom-the-easter-rising-ep-1/id1639561921?i=1000699535390 The 1916 Easter Rising was a definitive moment in 20th-century Irish history. Its memory was evoked throughout The Troubles, with republicans wearing commemorative Easter Lily badges to honour the revolutionary martyrs that came before them. On Easter Monday in 1916, amongst the backdrop of the ongoing First World War, Irish revolutionaries brought the anti-colonial…
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Robert Reich If you are considering a trip to the US, please reconsider. Why reward Donald Trump’s America with your tourist dollars?Tue 18 Mar 2025 14.00 GMTShare224 To friends of democracy around the world: we need your help. You know that the Trump regime is brutally attacking US democracy. Most of us did not vote…
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Dipankar Bhatacharya The crucial Budget session is going on in Parliament. The Trump Administration is daily humiliating India and hurting India’s economic interests. Even as Elon Musk and his economic empire are facing a huge backlash in the US, the Modi government is spreading out the red carpet for Musk’s ventures in India. The share…
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By Tunç Türel (Posted Mar 14, 2025) Capitalism, MarxismGlobalCommentary, NewswireSlavoj Žižek Slavoj Žižek, one of the Western thinkers who is familiar with Marxist terminology, published an article in Philosophy Salon on January 27, 2025, entitled “Why a Communist Must Assume that Life is Hell.”1 In it, Žižek argues that communists should turn their backs on humanist optimism and embrace radical pessimism,…
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