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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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  • Rubble from Bone

    Tom Stevenson writes about Operation Iron Swords In the first three months​ of Israel’s attack on Gaza around 25,000 Palestinians were killed and around 60,000 wounded, 70 per cent of them women and children. Around 80 per cent of the population of Gaza has been displaced. The rate of killing has been higher than in most…

  • William Dalrymple

    Pankaj Mishra speaks out about atrempts to shut down his @LRB lecture on Gaza: “saying a “pervasive sense of fear and panic” is closing down debate on the issue within cultural spaces. “I’m not surprised but it’s still shocking,” Mishra said. “The whole point of culture and the arts is to embrace diversity, different view…

  • Fascinating blow by blow on the Cuban workers’ parliaments (Pedro Ross reviewed for ‘New West Indian Guide’)

    Filed: Cuba  Reviews How the Workers’ Parliaments Saved the Cuban Revolution:Reviving Socialism after the Collapse of the Soviet UnionBy Pedro Ross288 pages / Paper US$ 27.00 / 978-1-58367-9784 Reviewed by Steve Cushion for New West Indian Guide The end of the USSR removed Cuba’s principal trading partner overnight, depriving the country of the main market for its sugar harvest, which had…

  • In Defense of the Work Ethic

    BYPAUL CRIDER Conservatives have often embraced the work ethic in order to attack the poor and unemployed. In her latest book, the philosopher Elizabeth Anderson argues for reclaiming the concept, explaining that its origins lie in a radical critique of the idle rich. Review of Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic Against Workers and How…

  • The debate over the ‘caste question’: How minorities’ reservations were decided by the Constituent Assembly

    In the drafting of the Indian Constitution, minority rights, particularly for Scheduled Castes and Tribes, sparked significant debates. The Constitution eventually granted reservations for Scheduled Castes and Tribes, but not for religious minorities, influenced by concerns about separatism and the changing post-Partition conditions. Written by Srijana SiriNew Delhi | Updated: February 7, 2024 20:35 IST The…

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