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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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  • The dialectic in the service of revolution

    Ann Robertson 13 February, 2024 MastodonFacebookTwitterEmailShare Marxist revolutionaries strive to analyze the surrounding bourgeois, capitalist world with the goal of fundamentally changing it. But the hegemony of bourgeois metaphysical modes of thinking in capitalist societies — modes that always end up assuring us that the essential institutions of bourgeois society are not susceptible to change…

  • Gaza’s main public library has been destroyed by Israeli bombing.

    By Dan Sheehan November 27, 2023, 4:18pm Authorities in Gaza City have condemned what they say was the deliberate destruction of the city’s main public library by Israeli forces after finding the building in ruins while a ceasefire was being observed between Israel and Hamas. As reported by Storyful earlier today, the Municipality of Gaza has released a…

  • Indian Constitutional Law and Philosophy

    ARTICLE 21 AND THE RIGHT TO LIFE / JUDICIAL PROCESS / STAYS AND INJUNCTIONS The Mysterious Disappearance of the Stay Hearing JANUARY 13, 2024 GAUTAM BHATIA3 COMMENTS Earlier this week, the International Court of Justice held a two-day hearing on “provisional measures” in the case concerning the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide…

  • The fall and rise of Marwan Barghouti

    Long regarded as a future leader of Palestine, Marwan Barghouti has been imprisoned by Israel since 2002. What would his release mean for the future of the Middle East?Palestinian youths carrying a flag bearing a drawing of Marwan Barghouti. Credit: Associated Press / Alamy Stock Photo In the early hours of 5 March 2002, a 21-year-old…

  • Sri Lanka in 2023: Short-Term Solutions to Long-term Problems

    Written by Isha Gupta January 9, 20249 min read 2023 was a transitional year for Sri Lanka as it continued to recover from its worst economic crisis since independence. While the previous year’s mass Aragalaya (“struggle” in Sinhalese) protests in response to the crisis kicked out the previous government, many economic and political realities remained the same. Sri Lanka continued…

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