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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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POSTED ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2024 8:37AM BY S. ABBAS RAZA
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ByEric Hobsbawm The late historian Eric Hobsbawm recounts the history of International Workers’ Day. Subscribe to Tribune today and help us build a real, socialist alternative to Britain’s media moguls. Join our mailing list SUBMIT In 1990 Michael Ignatieff, writing about Easter in the Observer, remarked that “secular societies have never succeeded in providing alternatives to religious rituals.”…
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A brilliant corrective from Rosa Luxemburg first published in Clara Zetkin’s Die Gleichheit for May Day 1907. ‘The Meaning of May Day’ (1907) by Rosa Luxemburg from Revolutionary Age. Vol. 2 No. 22. May 1, 1931. May Day is a living historical element of the international proletarian class struggle and therefore it has faithfully reflected for almost…
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Interviewed by Jeffrey Meyers ISSUE 115, SUMMER 1990 Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin on July 15, 1919 and grew up in London. She was educated at Badminton School in Bristol and studied classics at Somerville College, Oxford from 1938 until 1942, receiving first-class honors. She was assistant principal in the treasury from 1942 to 1944…
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Exploring India’s Past: From Al-Beruni to Marco Polo and Ibn-Battuta I was recently invited to participate in a forum called The Black Hole, an “educational and intellectual space” in Islamabad whose goal is to further science, art, and culture in Pakistan. It is run by Pervez Hoodbhoy, a physicist, author, and secularist known for his vocal…
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