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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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  • Lenin’s ‘Imperialism’: A critical survey of the economic arguments

    By James Doughney Published 20 January, 2025 MastodonFacebookTwitterEmail In the Preface to the 1920 French and German editions of Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916), Vladimir Lenin summarised the result of “imperialism”: Capitalism has grown into a world system of colonial oppression and of the financial strangulation of the overwhelming majority of the population of the world by a handful of “advanced”…

  • Debate | Can the Role of the Political Class Be Denied in Ambedkar’s Iconisation?

    Balmurli Natrajan 3 hours ago 5 min read Can Ambedkar be coopted, made palatable, hollowed out, made manageable, shorn of substance? This is precisely what Anand Teltumbde warns us about in writing this book. File image: One of many ‘Golden’ Ambedkar statues that came up in the 1980s and 90s, a symbol of hope for…

  • The Formidable Cervantes and Don Quixote

    The forbearance of Miguel de Cervantes, Don quixote and what I plan to do with it. Faizan Jan 20, 2025 We are currently reading Don Quixote as part of our reading plan which you can follow on The Formidable Cervantes and Don Quixote The forbearance of Miguel de Cervantes, Don quixote and what I plan to…

  • In his new book, Pankaj Mishra addresses the violation of Gaza and how the West participates in it

    An excerpt from ‘The World After Gaza’, by Pankaj Mishra. Pankaj Mishra Jan 21, 2025 · 09:50 am Excerpted with permission from The World After Gaza, Pankaj Mishra, Juggernaut. The Shoah scarred several Jewish generations; Jewish Israelis in 1948 experienced the birth of their nation-state as a matter of life and death, and then again in 1967…

  • Martin Luther King and LOVE

    How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics… Classical Wisdom Jan 20, 2025 Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, One of the things I love about Martin Luther King Jr (besides the obvious being a champion of civil rights of course) was his relationship to the Classics. Dr. King did not read the classics in a pedantic…

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