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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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  • A Seamless Dystopia

    What happened to the 21st-century city? KATE WAGNERSHARE This article appears in the March 2024 issue. When I was younger, growing up in the rural but rapidly developing small town of my youth, I believed that cities were the place where one could find freedom. The greatest disappointment of my young adulthood has been the discovery…

  • The Triumph of Mediocrity

    Omair Ahmad 26/Mar/2024 5 min read The most spectacular failure of Modi’s stint has been in foreign policy. When Manmohan Singh demitted office, India had enough standing that Modi could invite all SAARC prime ministers to his inauguration. India was not only the pre-eminent country in the region, other South Asian countries did not mind…

  • Bhima Koregaon: A new book recounts how 16 activists were imprisoned as terrorists, without trial

    An excerpt from ‘The Incarcerations: Bhima Koregaon and the Search for Democracy in India’, by Alpa Shah. Alpa Shah Yesterday · 08:30 am Amnesty International India and Oxfam India released a joint response the day Sudha Bharadwaj, Gautam Navlakha, Arun Ferreira, Vernon Gonsalves and Varavara Rao were arrested. “The nationwide crackdown on activists, advocates and…

  • Theater for Revolution: A conversation with Armando Carías

    By Cira Pascual Marquina (Posted Mar 26, 2024) Originally published: Venezuelananlysis  on March 22, 2024 (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |  Human Rights, Media, Movements, RevolutionsAmericas, VenezuelaInterviewArmando Carías Armando Carías is a journalist, theater director, and playwright with a distinguished trajectory in the world of Venezuelan culture. His plays have been widely published and were recently honored at Venezuela and Cuba’s national book fairs. In this…

  • The Hidden History of Those Who Wrote the Christian Story

    9 MINUTE READ IDEAS BY CANDIDA MOSS MARCH 24, 2024 9:39 AM EDT Moss, the Edward Cadbury Chair of Theology at the University of Birmingham and regular commentator on CBS and other networks, is the author of God’s Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible It is an unlikely success story. A first century religious leader…

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