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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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View this email in your browser Spartacus is a figure who floats between history and allegory. In the latest episode of the EI Weekly Listen, audio essays featuring our writers, Richard Miles explores the extraordinary life of Spartacus, the Thracian gladiator whose revolt rocked ancient Rome to its core. Listen here.
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China has fired back at Canada’s tariffs with brutal economic retaliation—100% tariffs on key Canadian exports. This could cripple Canada’s agriculture industry. Here’s what just happened and why Canada made a HUGE mistake: Canada thought it could play tough by slapping tariffs on Chinese EVs, steel, and aluminum. They claimed China’s subsidies were “unfair.” But…
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A panel discussion at the launch of Peggy Mohan’s book, ‘Father Tongue, Motherland’ traced the evolution of Indian languages from the Indus Valley Civilisation to the Mughal era. Krishan Murari 06 March, 2025 12:05 pm IST Follow Us : Text Size: A-A+ New Delhi: When it comes to Prakrit, linguist Peggy Mohan goes against the grain. It was not…
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Yascha Mounk and Yanis Varoufakis discuss whether the dominance of large cloud-focused tech companies signals the arrival of a new economic order. Yascha Mounk Jan 25, 2025 ∙ Paid 48 199 Share Thanks for reading! The best way to make sure that you don’t miss any of these conversations is to subscribe to The Good Fight on your…
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Franz Kafka was a man consumed by dualities—an artist trapped in a bureaucrat’s body, a son crushed beneath the weight of an overbearing father, a lover forever estranged from intimacy. Born in Prague in 1883, Kafka lived at the crossroads of fading empires and emerging modernity, a world teetering between ancient traditions and the cold,…
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