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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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In 2024 more people than ever before will vote in national elections across the globe. Yet in what has been dubbed the ‘Year of Democracy’, that form of government – based on the principle of popular self-rule under the rule of law – stands at a crossroads. In countries such as India and the United…
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Kalpana Wilson 4 April, 2024 MastodonFacebookTwitterEmailShare First published at CPI(ML) Liberation. The rise of fascism in India has long been characterised as a ‘war on women’. This is not surprising. Globally and historically, patriarchal oppression and violence has been central to fascist ideologies and regimes. But how exactly does India’s Hindu supremacist fascism wage its ‘war…
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BY MARIA POPOVA Just when you begin rueing that nothing original could possibly remain to be written about the cosmic spectacle of a total solar eclipse — after astronomer Maria Mitchell’s pioneering essay detailing the science and enchantment of the 1869 eclipse, after Virginia Woolf’s arresting 1927 account of total darkness in the celestial lighthouse, after Annie Dillard’s 1979 classic…
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Excerpts from her speech here: 👇 Justice Nagarathna: I am pleased to be here with you all today. It is an honour to deliver this inaugural address of this conference, I thank #NALSAR for extending the invitation to me. Justice Nagarathna: As India commemorated 75 years of independence, the #SupremeCourtOfIndia, likewise, has commemorated the 75…
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