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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 haunting presence of Stanley Kubrick

    Twenty-five years after his death, Stanley Kubrick remains the most influential director in English-language cinema, yet his influence will be felt less and less if the industry continues its inexorable decline. The most commercially successful film of last year, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, may have attracted attention for its inimitable mixture of pop feminism and outrageously catchy songs,…

  • Lenin’s lesson for Western liberals

    Authoritarianism is a symptom of a corrupted Left BY PHILIP CUNLIFFE Before launching his invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin placed the blame for the war on a surprising figure: Vladimir Lenin. Allegedly, the founding father of the Soviet Union gave away the western territories of Russia as part of the establishment of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in…

  • The rich get richer while global poverty deepens in “decade of division”

    Wealth accumulation by the rich has risen to the point that the world could see its first trillionaire within a decade. Meanwhile, it will take more than 200 years to end global poverty, a report by Oxfam International has found.January 16, 2024 by Tanupriya Singh The wealth of the world’s top five richest men has more than…

  • Suez Canal diplomacy and Goa 

    When India tried to liberate the Indian territory of Goa, from Portuguese Colonisers, Portuguese dictator Salazar sent his powerful Navy to fight the Indians. Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, the greatest Arab leader, closed the Suez Canal on 18.12.61, to deny access to the invading Navy, much to the chagrin of NATO. 15th Jan was…

  • The Global South Takes Israel to Court: The Third Newsletter (2024)

    JANUARY 18, 2024 Tarek al-Ghoussein (Palestine), Untitled 9 from the series Self Portrait, 2002. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 11 January, Adila Hassim, an advocate of the High Court of South Africa, stood before the judges of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and said: ‘Genocides are never declared in advance. But…

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