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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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  • Profit and loss

    This article is more than 21 years old William Dalrymple They came in their tens of thousands in the early 90s, selling up in the west to start afresh in the ‘new Palestine’. Now daily violence and curfews are bringing them to the edge of ruin. In the second of a series of major articles…

  • The Transformations of Delhi

    A conversation on Delhi’s rise and fall and rise WILLIAM DALRYMPLE 01 January, 2011 To mark the anniversary of Delhi’s 100th year as India’s capital, we sat down with two distinguished Dilliwallas for a wide-ranging discussion about the twists and turns of the city’s long history. WILLIAM DALRYMPLE first came to live in Delhi in 1984, then…

  • Marxist theory in Japan: A critical overview

    Originally published: Historical Materialism  on April 2024 by Gavin Walker (more by Historical Materialism)  |  (Posted Apr 06, 2024) Culture, Ideology, Marxism, PhilosophyAsia, JapanNewswireKarl Marx I. To summarise the reception history of Marx in Japan is no small task.1 In fact, it is essentially impossible to give an adequate overview of one of the deepest, most prolific, and most variegated linguistic repositories of the Marxist tradition.…

  • Thousands have lived without love, but not one without water: The Fourteenth Newsletter (2024)

    By Vijay Prashad (Posted Apr 05, 2024) Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research  on April 4, 2024 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |  Health, Human Rights, State Repression, WarGaza, Israel, Middle East, PalestineNewswireTricontinental Newsletter, Water, Water Crisis Dear friends, Faeq Hassan (Iraq), The Water Carriers, 1957. Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. By November 2023, it was already clear…

  • FREEDOM STRUGGLE

    Why a Pakistani lawyer wants a court to retry the case that led to Bhagat Singh’s execution Pakistan’s Supreme Court ruled that former PM ZA Bhutto was hanged without a fair trail. Now, can the Lahore Conspiracy Case be revisited? Chaman Lal Apr 06, 2024 · 03:30 pm On March 6, the Supreme Court of…

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