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    “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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  • the tragic case of Timothy Snyder Jan 26, 2024 Timothy Snyder is an eloquent, prolific and multi-lingual historian of Eastern Europe, who turned himself, after the success of Bloodlands, into that dangerous temptation, a public intellectual. Timothy Snyder, Advocate for Ukraine His scholarship and mesmeric prose turned him into one of the most prominent public intellectuals among…


  • Strikes said to target Hamas killed hundreds within hours including women and children, undermining ceasefire Jennifer Rankin in Brussels and Oliver HolmesTue 18 Mar 2025 16.44 GMTShare World governments and UN officials have expressed horror and dismay at Israel’s resumption of strikes on Gaza that killed hundreds within a few hours, warning the assault could shatter a…


  • Published On: 18 Mar 2025, 6:02 PM | By Minnambalam Desk எஸ்.வி.ராஜதுரை 2014ஆம் ஆண்டு நாடாளுமன்றத் தேர்தல் நடைபெறுவதற்கு சற்று முன்னதாக, பாஜகவின்  பிரதமர் வேட்பாளராக  நரேந்திர மோடி நிறுத்தப்படுவார் என்ற அறிவிப்பு வெளிவந்தவுடனேயே ‘வாசல் படியில் பாசிசம்’ என்ற கட்டுரையை, இடதுசாரி ஏடான ‘புது விசை’  ஜனவரி 2014 இதழில் எழுதியிருந்தேன். அதற்கான காரணங்களையும் விளக்கியிருந்தேன். எனது நோக்கம், இந்தியாவிலுள்ள இடதுசாரிக் கட்சிகள், முற்போக்குச் சக்திகள் ஆகியன விழித்துக் கொண்டு பாசிசத்தை முறியடிப்பதற்கான…


  • by John Bellamy Foster and Gabriel Rockhill (Mar 01, 2025) Topics: Marxism  Philosophy Places: Americas  Europe  soviet-union  United States John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Oregon. He is the author, most recently, of The Dialectics of Ecology (Monthly Review Press, 2024). Gabriel Rockhill is the executive director of the Critical Theory Workshop/Atelier de Théorie Critique and professor of philosophy and global…


  • Ramesh Karthik Nayak 08/Mar/2025 The man at the reception looked at me with a question mark on his face, as if I had wandered into the wrong building, or worse, the wrong world.’ Representative image. Photo: StockSnap/Pixabay Delhi in mid February. The air still held a winter crispness, though the afternoons had begun to thaw.…


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