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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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Every day, it seems, Payal Kapadia’s film is bagging a new award, scratching new nominations and topping year-end lists of prestige publications — will an Academy Award nomination be next? By Prathyush Parasuraman Stories by Prathyush Parasuraman : DEC 30, 2024|6 min read A still from ‘All We Imagine As Light’ “I didn’t even know some of these awards…
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The Modi government recently also cut out the founder of IITs, India’s elite tech schools, from the syllabus By Niharika Sharma PublishedJune 1, 2023 https://qz.com/ Class 10 students following the Indian government’s syllabus will no longer learn the periodic table of elements. Environmental sustainability has also been removed from the curriculum. 0:42 / 1:57 The…
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Kathleen Wallace January 14, 2025 Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair There is something of a loose, informal social contract inherent to a successful human society, and that is the condition of reciprocal empathy. When one experiences misfortune, others in a healthy society care and assist, despite there being no contractual obligation. Others care when catastrophe…
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Three decades after the violence ended, how far has reconciliation in the country really come? Authors Phil Clark, Andreas Bohne This month marks the thirtieth anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda that began in early April 1994. In just 100 days, nearly 1 million people were brutally murdered across the country by militias associated with the…
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