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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 Jungle Book. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

    Gramsci’s animality By Andy Merrifield (Posted Jan 04, 2024) Originally published: Andy Merrifield Blog  on January 1, 2024 (more by Andy Merrifield Blog) Culture, Ecology, Environment, IdeologyGlobalCommentaryAntonio Gramsci, Featured One of the central “living” attractions of Testaccio’s Non-Catholic cemetery is its stray cats, a colony of twenty-five or so semi-feral moggies. We know from old paintings of the nearby Pyramid, especially those by…

  • Ramachandra Guha: The Chief Justice and the Father of the Nation

    What would Gandhi have thought of a serving chief justice making public visits to temples and giving interviews about it? Ramachandra Guha Jan 08, 2024 · 07:30 am Like most of my readers, I begin the day by reading the newspapers, in my case online and then in print. On Sunday, January 7, the first…

  • Bilkis Bano: India PM Modi’s government okayed rapists’ release

    Read more India stories from the BBC: By Geeta Pandey BBC News, Delhi The government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the premature release of 11 men who were convicted for the gangrape of a pregnant Muslim woman and murder of 14 members of her family, including her three-year-old daughter, according to a court…

  • The CJI Chandrachud Phenomenon: Creativity in the Courtroom, Stirring Rhetoric Outside it

    Justice Chandrachud is a skilled orator. He is always politically correct in his out of court orations. But he has not been appointed the chief orator of this country. His job is to do justice. CJI D.Y. Chandrachud. Illustration: The Wire, with Canva. COMMUNALISMGOVERNMENTLAWPOLITICSRIGHTS06/JAN/2024 While listening to the year-end interview of the Chief Justice of India…

  • Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children: Marxist Concept of Alienation

    Mahmoud DaramShahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, IranAbolfazl AhmadiniaShahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, IranReceived: 18-09-2014 Accepted: 15-10- 2014 Published: 31-10- 2014doi:10.7575/aiac.ijclts.v.2n.4p.30 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijclts.v.2n.4p.30 AbstractThis paper intends to argue that Mother Courage, the main character of Bertolt Brecht’s play, Mother Courage and HerChildren (1980), fails to support her children financially because of a socio-psychological state defined by…

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