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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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  • | Dear friend,   This week, two major countries across two distant continents held two historic elections, and their two ruling parties were re-elected. But that’s where the similarities between Mexico and India’s elections end.   Mexico saw a super-majority result for MORENA and its president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum, securing nearly 36,000,000 votes and 30 percent…


  • in India by Sandeep Pandey 08/06/2024 by Divesh Ranjan and Sandeep Pandey There are celebrations in the opposition circles that Bhartiya Janata Party has not been able to reach the half way mark to form the government and will be dependent on coalition partners to run the next government. It is being expected that alliance partners will…


  • This interactive feature parses the results of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The data can be sliced and diced for several criteria to be shown in the form of a map, a table and a list . The results of the 2019 and 2014 Lok Sabha elections are also included in the interactive to provide…


  • The people have denied Modi government iqbal – moral authority, prestige, legitimacy Written by Yogendra YadavUpdated: June 7, 2024 22:40 IST This was the least free and fair national election in the history of independent India, where everything was stacked against the Opposition. Money, media, administrative machine — the ruling party enjoyed an infinite advantage over…


  • JUNE 6, 2024By MATHEW INGRAM ab Even before the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a public health emergency of international concern in January 2020, there were debates as to where—and how—the virus originated. Some cited the emergence of the earliest COVID cases in or around Wuhan, in China, as evidence of what came to be known as the…


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