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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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17/01/2025 By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos Why Trump had and still has, to some extent, the need to present himself as an “antisystemic” friend of peace and even of Russia? Ours is the age of great confusion. The confusion has various reasons and one among them is the embarrassment caused by the collapse of the two great…
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With his return as US President, we are witnessing in real time the takeover of governance by Big Capital. Published : Jan 15, 2025 08:49 IST – 3 MINS READ Vaishna Roy Vaishna Roy is Editor, Frontline. US President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, DC, on November 26, 2020. | Photo Credit:…
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By Gillian Rose The theorists of the Frankfurt School wanted to promote a critical Marxism that wasn’t hobbled by one-dimensional economic determinism. In doing so, they also drew on the thinking of Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud. Our new issue, “Bye Bye Bidenism,” is out now. Subscribe to our print edition at a discounted rate today. This…
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On 17 January 2016, we lost the young promising Dalit scholar, Rohith Vemula, because of circumstances created by right-wing forces at the helm of affairs from the Central University of Hyderabad up to the Education Ministry. This incident was aptly identified by social justice forces as an institutional murder. As we recollect this painful loss,…
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Hannah Arendt was the rare philosopher who saw how limited her discipline could be. Poetry offered her another outlet for thinking. BY Daegan Miller Originally Published: January 12, 2025Share “What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else! And if we lose the ground of experience then we get into all kinds of theories.” —…
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