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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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  • Modernism or Barbarism

    BYBENJAMIN BALTHASER The answer to the miseries of modernity isn’t to reject modernity — it’s to demand more of it. New issue coming soon. Subscribe to our print edition today. The Essential Guide to Jacobin EDITORS The Verdict on Henry Kissinger RENÉ ROJAS BHASKAR SUNKARA JONAH WALTERS Cori Bush: Why I’m Calling for a Cease-Fire in Gaza CORI…

  • S L Kandhan 

    MAGA Trump supporter, Greyson, will share his experience of living in China for 5 years. US-China relations will determine war and peace. There’s insane misunderstanding, so join the Spaces in 25 minutes! Interview + Q&A. https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1RDxllpRArmxL

  • The invisibilising of queer Dalits in Yashica Dutt’s 2019 memoir

    Published : Jan 12, 2024 17:24 IST – 12 MINS READ SUMIT BAUDH Dutt erases queer Dalit voices while claiming the term “coming out” for herself, overlooking its origins and complex marginalised experiences. The Amazon Prime video series, Made In Heaven (MIH), opened the floodgates to an unresolved spat over demands for credit and allegations of appropriation.…

  • A New History Web Series on The Wire

    Indians: The Aryans and the Vedic Age More than a thousand years after the Harappans, the next cities arose in the Gangetic Plain in mid-first millennium BCE. Episode two of the series focuses on them. After the decline of the Harappan Civilisation, waves of Aryan migrants arrived from Central Asia between 2000-1500 BCE. A nomadic-pastoralist…

  • Neoimperialism, ecological crisis and the fight for a new internationalism: An interview with Pedro Fuentes

    Pedro Fuentes Federico Fuentes 10 January, 2024 Pedro Fuentes is a leader of the Movimento Esquerda Socialista (Socialist Left Movement, MES), a revolutionary tendency within Brazil’s broad anti-capitalist Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (Socialism and Freedom Party, PSOL). He is the author of, among other writings, Setenta años de luchas y revoluciones en América Latina (Seventy Years of…

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