Kate Mackenzie, Tim Sahay We live in a dysfunctional system in which money flows out of the countries that need it most and into the coffers of the wealthiest. In 2023, the private sector collected $68 billion more in interest and principal repayments than it lent to the developing world. International financial institutions and assistance agencies… Read More New World Order?
Journalist Maria Ressa named Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk in speech at Hay literary festival in Powys Lucy Knight “Tech bros” such as Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are “the largest dictators”, Maria Ressa, who won the Nobel peace prize in 2021 for her defence of media freedom, has said. The American-Filipina journalist has spent a number… Read More Social media bosses are ‘the largest dictators’, says Nobel peace prize winner
Dependency, neocolonialism, and the agrarian problem in Colombia Sandra Jaramillo Restrepo In the 1960s and ‘70s, the Colombian national government embarked on an ambitious agrarian reform program to address poverty in the increasingly violent countryside. Under the bipartisan project of the National Front, which alternated power between the Conservative and Liberal parties, these efforts sparked… Read More Underdevelopment and War
It’s all the more striking that Chandrababu Naidu and Nitish Kumar have run to be alongside Narendra Modi as he prepares once again to step into the role of the prime minister after describing the country’s largest minority group as “infiltrators”. Anand Sahay It is noteworthy that two leading political figures — the resurrected Andhra… Read More Naidu, Nitish Ignore the Pain of All Those Who Have Suffered During Modi’s 10-Year Tenure
Mainstream news channels have been in thrall to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A ragtag army of small independent media is helping to save democracy Mukul Kesavan For the last 10 years, India has been the site of a natural experiment. It’s as if a social scientist was testing to see how long it would take… Read More India Deserves a Better Media
Mukul Kesavan The morning of the fourth of June found India’s non-bhakt citizens curled in a fetal position. Braced against news of the four-hundred-foretold by the exit polls, sapped by a decade of electoral defeats, they had decided not to suffer the drawn-out torment of a televised count. Better to get the bad news all at… Read More The Great Escape: When India’s Political Landscape Shifted
From the 1910s through the 1930s, Maximilian J. Rudwin produced some excellent pioneering scholarship on the European traditions of the fantastic in literature, especially as related to various manifestations of the devil. Rudwin was an unusually peripatetic scholar, and virtually nothing has been written about him or his oeuvre. His trail has not been easy to… Read More Manifestations of the Devil: The writings of Maximilian Rudwin (1885-1946)
Peg Birmingham: A Lying World Order: Political deception and the threat of totalitarianism (Arendt) argues that while the ancient sophists were satisfied with a passing victory of the argument at the expense of truth, modern sophists want a great deal more, namely, modern sophists want “a lasting victory at the expense of reality itself.” From… Read More A Lying World Order
Mainstream Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jun 8, 2024 Modi’s grip on power slips | Bharat Bhushan India bestirred, a political era ends | L K Sharma The climb down of Humpty Dumpty what a relief! | Vijay Kumar Decoding the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections Verdict | Gilbert Sebastian Vibrant India | Sukumaran C.V. Wah, what a grand fight against… Read More Mainstream, Jun 8, 2024
Bharat Bhushan The 2024 general elections will be remembered for returning Indian politics to normal. As he prepares to lead a coalition government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will now be forced to listen to both the Parliamentary Opposition for whom he has shown nothing but disdain, and regional parties whom he had specially targeted. He… Read More Indian politics heads towards normalcy
