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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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The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance by Elizabeth F. Thompson The story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when Arabs established a representative democracy — and how the West crushed it When Europe’s Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationalists rose in revolt against their Turkish…
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By: Albert Huffstickler Poetic Outlaws Dec 23, 2024 My father carried a poem with him all through his internment in Cabanatuan prison camp in the Philippines, carried it with him for four years, showed it to me one day folded and refolded, print blurred, coming apart. I, in my teens, not thinking, nodded and went…
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Fyodor Sep 05, 2024 It was late, and the shadows of the room seemed to grow with the deepening dusk, the flicker of a single candle the only break in the darkness. The two men sat across from each other at a small table, barely touching their tea. Both were silent for a moment, as…
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By Jeremy Kuzmarov December 28, 2024 Dusko Doder’s case has ominous reverberations in the era of Cold War 2.0 Late one February night in 1984, Dusko Doder, The Washington Post’s Soviet correspondent, noticed hundreds of lights blazing at the Soviet Defense Ministry and KGB offices in Moscow. He surmised that the Soviet leader, Yuri Andropov, who…
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In ‘The State and New Cinema in Contemporary India’, Sudha Tiwari examines the setting up and roles of the Film Finance Corporation and the National Film Development Corporation. Sudha Tiwari 24 December, 2024 11:51 am IST Text Size: A-A+ The desire to have a ‘world class’ cinema, reflecting an Indian ethos, existed among young filmmakers since…
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