I stood on a hill and I saw the Old approaching, but it came as the New…. Bertolt Brecht It is my opinion now that evil is never “radical,” that it is only extreme, and that it possesses neither depth nor any demonic dimension. It can overgrow and lay waste the whole world precisely because… Read More India’s self-incubated East India Company
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer comes a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a bold call for expansive political solidarity. The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures Born in war-ravaged Vietnam, Viet Nguyen arrived in the United States as a child refugee in 1975. The Nguyen family would… Read More Viet Thanh Nguyen -To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other
आर्यमान जैन और इरिना चीमा / Aryaman Jain and Irina Cheema देश में चल रहे युवा आंदोलन ने हम सब को शिक्षा और युवाओं के भविष्य पे सोचने को मजबूर कर दिया है। तत्कालीन मुद्दा NEET एग्ज़ाम में पेपर लीक का है लेकिन आंदोलन में दिख रही ऊर्जा बताती है की बात उस से ज़्यादा… Read More कॉकरोच के दौर में शिक्षा पर पुनर्विचार | Rethinking Education in the Year of the Cockroach
Philip Oltermann In a new book, German artist and writer Philipp Ruch argues that viewing the ascent of Hitler’s NSDAP through the prism of the Third Reich has distorted our understanding of fascism’s electoral breakthrough With your art collective Centre for Political Beauty you famously built a replica of the Holocaust memorial on a property… Read More ‘Hitler was a lazy criminal who slept in until noon’: why most of what we think we know about the rise of the Nazis is wrong
The historic wave of labour unrest that swept India Zaen Alkazi {ONE} MORNINGS ARE TYPICALLY RUSHED at Hosiery Complex NOIDA, a prominent industrial hub in Uttar Pradesh. In the urban village of Yakubpur, thousands of migrant workers wake up in small and windowless rooms, rented from local Gurjar farmers, and get ready for work. They… Read More Striking Back
Only a forensic audit and a full inquiry can determine their level of administrative culpability in this massive exclusion of voters ‘First Time Since Independence So Many Voters Lost Voting Rights’: Ex-CEC O.P. Rawat on SIR Exercise Bharat Bhushan The legal plea of ‘just following orders’ (known as the Nuremberg defence) is untenable in modern… Read More What about Gyanesh Kumar’s backroom collaborators?
Women say nothing has changed since Delhi’s infamous Nirbhaya bus rape case 14 years ago Student activists protest against alleged gang rapes. Photograph: Rajat Gupta/EPA DU की लड़कियों के ये नारे क्यों हैं इतने VIRAL ? Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Aakash Hassan in Delhi The posters, just like the women holding them, were taking no prisoners.… Read More ‘We want justice’: series of rapes trigger mass protests at Indian universities
How the persistence of American Islamophobia makes it painfully clear that we are still living with the War on Terror Rozina Ali – Interviewed by Jonathan Shainin Twenty-five years after 11 September, it is hard to separate Islamophobia in America from the shock of that morning, as if everything since was caused by its impact.… Read More Second-Class Citizens
When a workers’ protest is branded a conspiracy, who pays for it, and who walks free? http://www.reporters-collective.in It has been nearly six months since the workers’ protest in Noida. While our lives have moved on, many workers and activists detained on mere suspicion by the police remain behind bars. A quick recap for those who… Read More The Government Agents of violence in Noida
But think of the implications of this dynamic. It is a way of saying that the rot in the system does not begin and end in politics; it saturates a whole elite and perhaps even a generation of voters and public servants Rarely in the annals of Indian constitutional history have two key institutions, the… Read More Pratap Bhanu Mehta: Election Commission and Court make it harder, not easier, to believe in independent institutions
