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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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Lessons from George Orwell Culture Critic Mar 12, 2025 Writing has long been a pursuit cloaked in mystery. Some see it as a calling, others as a discipline, and others still as an inexplicable urge inspired by the Muses. But what is it that makes someone pick up a pen in the first place? George…
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P. Sainath 14/Mar/2025 5 min read Predatory commercialisation of the countryside has caused the largest displacements in our history. Perhaps in human history. Farmers sit outside Cabinet Minister Harbhajan Singh’s residence as part of gherao of the residences of AAP ministers and MLAs on the call of the United Kisan Morcha (SKM), in Amritsar, Monday,…
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Journalism isn’t dying—it’s just lost touch. Stories don’t need more reach; they need more resonance. The future belongs to those who create lived experiences, build bonds where algorithms can’t, and pankaj mishra Jan 29, 2025 Become Invisible One quiet evening, I was walking with Gautama G., the founder of Pathashaala School. The air was humid…
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Chaman Lal Apr 06, 2024 · 03:30 pm A photograph from 1935 of men saluting the spot where Bhagat Singh and his comrades were executed. | via Sapan News. On March 6, the Supreme Court of Pakistan ruled that ousted prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had been unjustly hanged in 1979. The court’s ruling was following a…
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Sunday 26 January 2025, by Suresh Khairnar#socialtags ShareFacebookTwitterWhatsAppBlogger Humble greetings today on the occasion of the 71st death anniversary of Comrade M.N. Roy, the father of ’neo-humanism’! Narendranath Bhattacharya alias Manvendra Nath Roy (M.N. Roy is more popular), this thirteen-year-old boy was born 138 years ago, on 21st March 1887 in Bengal’s 24 Pargana district. That means…
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