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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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Peggy Mohan, a professor of linguistics and the author of several books, spoke with Outlook’s Avantika Mehta about the decline of regional languages, and the importance of acceptance and diplomacy in multi-language polities. A Avantika Mehta Updated on: 17 March 2025 2:43 pm Linguist Peggy Mohan Photo: Special Arrangement Peggy Mohan is a professor of linguistics and the…
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Posted on Sunday, Mar 16, 2025 6:00AM by Katalin Balog by Katalin Balog The mind-body problem in its current form – an inquiry into how the mind fits into the physical universe – was formulated by René Descartes in the 17th century. In his Meditations, a thin volume of philosophy that had a monumental effect on all later Western philosophy,…
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By Paul Le Blanc Published 1 March, 2025 MastodonFacebookTwitterEmail A longtime friend, with whom I share a mutual respect, recently sent me an email regarding my decision to rejoin Solidarity.* What follows are the texts (slightly edited) of a two-part answer to him, and then my replies to a couple of emails he sent in response. I will…
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An antidote to the sorry state of American publishing. Philip Graham Mar 17, 2025 For five months in 2023 my wife and I traveled through 28 states across the United States, in a hopeful, slightly crazy, deeply personal, and sometimes grueling search for Little Free Libraries. I had a book to deliver, a copy of…
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In the seven decades of the working of the Constitution, there has been a gradual drift towards the entrenching of a set of its characteristics, says the author in his new book ‘The Indian Constitution: A Conversation with Power’ Published – January 24, 2025 09:02 am ISTREAD LATERPRINT A protest in Srinagar against the removal of…
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