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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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Mnar Muhawesh In this episode of MintCast, host Mnar Adley speaks with historian, journalist, and author Vijay Prashad about the turmoil shaping 2025. As 2025 begins, California is on fire. And it feels like much of the rest of the world is burning, too. From the slaughter in the Middle East to a new Cold War brewing in Asia,…
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By: David Lerner Poetic Outlaws Jan 24, 2025 van Gogh, can you tell me how many martyrs does it take to open up a blood bank van Gogh, can you tell me where does beauty go when it dies? van Gogh, can you tell me why saints live on car exhaust and are lonely as…
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In the seven decades of the working of the Constitution, there has been a gradual drift towards the entrenching of a set of its characteristics, says the author in his new book ‘The Indian Constitution: A Conversation with Power’ Published – January 24, 2025 09:02 am A protest in Srinagar against the removal of Article 370…
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Harry C. Hindmarsh, assistant managing editor of the Toronto Daily Star, knew how to get under Ernest Hemingway’s skin. Harry C. Hindmarsh via Flickr By: Emily Zarevich January 6, 2025 3 minutes The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. You may have experienced a boss who’s so intolerable, so insufferable, and so tyrannical that no…
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Thoughts ahead of the Mahatma’s 75th death anniversary. Ramachandra Guha Yesterday · 07:30 am · Mahatma Gandhi at East End in London in 1931 | By Unknown author, Public Domain, Next week, we shall mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi‘s martyrdom. So long after his death, does Gandhi still matter? Should he matter? In this…
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