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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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Raj Shekhar Sen 8 hours ago 5 min read We, the Indian STEM kids, remain ensnared in a web of simplistic binaries – our lives shaped from the earliest moments by family structures that demand obedience, caste hierarchies that normalise subjugation, and classrooms that reward quiet compliance. The first shock of stepping into a US…
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Yanis Varoufakis Watching, on the one hand, the Israeli soldiers’ video confessions of their genocidal intent and acts and, on the other hand, the Palestinians’ livestreaming of their own deaths and devastation, it is ever so easy to throw one’s hands up in the air, to despair, to want to shut the cruelty out, to…
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Saturday 4 January 2025, by J P Gadkari Mainstream, Vol 63 No 1, January 4, 2025 The nation had the tragic coincidence of a huge nature being struck to it when it was about to celebrate in a big way the Centenary of Mahatma Gandhi having completed 100 years of his presiding over the only time as…
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Trump’s sentence in New York — no prison, probation or fines — solidifies the declining role of legal accountability in our politics. January 10, 2025 at 4:50 p.m. ESTYesterday at 4:50 p.m. EST 4 min106 Analysis by Aaron Blake The criminal sentencing of President-elect Donald Trump on Friday was not how most who wanted to see him held…
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Thomas Fazi January 9, 2025 5 mins With just over a week to go to his inauguration, Donald Trump is already sabre-rattling. It is, he said, an “absolute necessity” that America annexes Greenland. “People really don’t even know if Denmark has any legal right to it, but if they do, they should give it up because…
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