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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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By Cira Pascual Marquina (Posted May 17, 2024) Originally published: Venezuelanalysis.com on May 10, 2024 (more by Venezuelanalysis.com) | Feminism, Ideology, Movements, PhilosophyAmericas, VenezuelaInterview, NewswireBolivarian Process, Luis Britto Garcia Experimental writer and columnist Luis Britto Garcia is one of Venezuela’s best-known and most respected intellectuals. An avid supporter of the Bolivarian Process from the beginning, Britto Garcia is nevertheless an independent thinker who offers…
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An excerpt from ‘Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics’, by Divya Dwivedi and Shaj Mohan. Divya Dwivedi & Shaj Mohan May 14, 2024 · 08:30 am We are apparently resisting right now, in India against citizenship laws and procedures, in Hong Kong against the fugitive offender’s amendment bill, and across the world against border controls.…
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in Arts/Literature by Vidyadhar Date 03/05/2024 Several prominent theatre personalities stood in a long queue at the Opera House in Mumbai lrecently to get a signed copy of Amal Allana’s book on her father and the father of modern Indian theatre Ebrahim Alkazi. It was a historic evening, a fitting birth centenary tribute to the man who…
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Hello. My name is Maria Popova and The Marginalian is a record of my reading and reckoning with our search for meaning: sometimes through science and philosophy, sometimes through poetry and children’s books, always through the lens of wonder. Founded in 2006 as an email to seven friends under the outgrown name Brain Pickings and since included in the Library of Congress…
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In “Something About the Sky,” the National Book Award-winning marine biologist brings her signature sense of wonder to the science of clouds. By Maria Popova Maria Popova, the creator of TheMarginalian.org and the author of the forthcoming “The Universe in Verse: 15 Windows on Wonder Through Science and Poetry,” has written about Rachel Carson in her book “Figuring.”…

