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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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This material remains under copyright in some jurisdictions, including the US, and is reproduced here with the kind permission of the Orwell Estate. The Orwell Foundation is an independent charity – please consider making a donation or becoming a Friend of the Foundation to help us maintain these resources for readers everywhere. In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I…
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Throughout George Orwell’s life and works, there is one single thread that runs through his political writing: the impulse to write truthfully, which, for him, meant without ideology. Aug 26, 2024 • By Rebecca Clayton, MA English, BA English Literature Some consider George Orwell’s political beliefs to be equivocal at best and suspicious at worst. D.J. Taylor recounts that there were concerns that 1984 “was…
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The Atlantic Slave Trade affected the nations that carried out the trade and the people taken as slaves. Many of the effects linger today. Jan 7, 2025 • By Mike Cohen, BA History The history of humanity is checkered with the enslavement of people. The practice, which has existed for millennia, has taken many forms, such as the enslavement…
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The federal government’s dysfunction leaves immigrant-friendly cities feeling overwhelmed.By Jerusalem Demsas February 19, 2024ShareSave Listen-1.0x+ 0:0019:06 Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. When the mayor of New York, of all places, warned that a recent influx of asylum seekers would destroy his city, something didn’t add up.…
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A Collection of Classic Poetry About Social Protest https://www.thoughtco.com/ ‘The Burning of Shelley’, July 1822. Hulton Archive / Getty Images By Bob Holman & Margery Snyder Updated on July 10, 2019 Nearly 175 years ago Percy Bysshe Shelley said, in his “Defence of Poetry”, that “poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” In the years…
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