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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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By Tariq Ali (Posted Mar 04, 2025) Originally published: New Left Review on January / February 2025 (more by New Left Review) | Inequality, Movements, State Repression, StrategyEgypt, Iran, Israel, Libya, Middle East, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, SyriaNewswire To the victors, the spoils. A hundred years ago, after the conclusion of the First World War, the British Empire and its French ally broke up the…
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The 2025 Vijay Nambisan Lecture The recent functioning of global capitalism has led to extreme inequalities and the concentration of wealth and power, increasing the fragility and vulnerability of livelihoods, rapidly accelerating climate change, and severe ecological damage, resulting in social and political tensions, polarisation, and instability. India is a major example of such tendencies. In…
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In the month of International Working Women’s Day, we explore how debt-austerity regimes and climate change impact women farmworkers across the Global South. 13 March 2025 Rocio Navarro (Mexico), Watering Day, 2024. Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. March is the month of International Working Women’s Day, a day deeply rooted in the…
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An excerpt from ‘A Demon in Dandi’, by Lavanya Karthik. Lavanya Karthik Mar 12, 2025 · 01:30 pm Read in App Far ahead of him were the other seven members of his team – the Arun Tukdi or Sunrise Army. Like Dinu, they were volunteers from the Gujarat Vidyapith in Amdavad, abandoning life as college…
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The Festival of Colour Sam Dalrymple and Harleen Singh Mar 08, 2025 This week marks the arrival of Holi, India’s most colourful festival. It signals the arrival of spring celebrates the victory of good over evil and is probably Indias most famous festival abroad. But it is also one of India’s most ancient festivals, and evidence of…
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