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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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Vallalar was a secular saint and tried to secularise Saivite philosophy. He challenged the Dharma Sastras, says ACJ Chairman Sashi Kumar January 31, 2024 12:16 am | Updated 08:44 am IST – CHENNAI THE HINDU BUREAU ACJ Chairman Sashi Kumar launching the Anbenum Peruveli website at the event held on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: R. RAGU A…
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by Jacques LaPere (Dec 01, 2023) Topics: Fascism Marxism Movements Revolutions Places: Europe Portugal Jacques LaPere is a retired professor, literary critic, and translator. He currently resides in northern California. Manuel Tiago (Álvaro Cunhal), Until Tomorrow, Comrades, trans. Eric A. Gordon (New York: International Publishers, 2023), 432 pages, $21.99, paperback. If ever there were a more urgent moment to read a novel due to the…
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The IULP is a network that confronts the challenges of the market-driven desiccation of ideas with left books that amplify the voices of ordinary people. MORE ABOUT US Formed in 2020, the International Union of Left Publishers emerged as a platform of left publishers to promote left books through Red Books Day (21 February), to…
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BY MARIA POPOVA “How we spend our days,” Annie Dillard wrote in her timelessly beautiful meditation on presence over productivity, “is, of course, how we spend our lives.” And nowhere do we fail at the art of presence most miserably and most tragically than in urban life — in the city, high on the cult of productivity, where we…
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