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“If that falling-apart world is easily recognizable a century later, so is the Anglophone literary sphere’s capacity to promote, then discard, its exotic others.” — siddhartha deb thedriftmag.com/the-empire-mar…

"Today over half the global economy is subject to some sort of US sanction." Lara Merling & Kate Mackenzie look at the continuiities between Trump and Biden in US foreign economic policy phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ameri…

So glad to have had a chance to think about this in these terrible times.

This holiday season, remembering Father Stan Swamy, whom I wrote about on what tragically turned out to be his last Christmas nytimes.com/2020/12/24/opi… New York Times Opinion

"I have come to the view that the Columbia University administration has created such a toxic and hostile environment for legitimate debate around the war in Israel and Palestine that I can no longer teach or conduct research at Columbia." ccrjustice.org/home/press-cen…

legit fuming over libgen shutdown. especially in the light of meta training their ai on it. mining the most functional free library in the world to squeeze out these precious profits & turn the remains of the Internet into unusable sludge. then cutting out access to said library

“What are writers and readers doing, and what should they be doing, to challenge or transcend Anglocentric literary culture?” Read our Issue Fourteen Dispatches section, feat. Na Zhong, siddhartha deb, Michael Barron, Zain Khalid and more: thedriftmag.com/somewhere-and-…

Where is Timothy Garton Ash, Michael Ignatieff et al. I loved reading them how peace will reign supreme once communism is gone... Somehow it worked in reverse.

These Bhasha verses compare Sher Shah Suri to a 'pralaya' (deluge) that washes away Humayun's rule. The 'balaheena baalaka' (helpless child) Akbar manages to survive by staying afloat on a 'banyan leaf' ('akshaya-vata ko paata').

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Neoliberalism paved the way for the rise of the far right in India. siddhartha deb joins our “Long Reads” podcast to discuss Narendra Modi’s reign. 🎙️ Available wherever you get your podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lon…

I spoke to @Jacobin about neoliberalism and fascism in India. For all surprised by the state of affairs in the US, it may be worth asking why misery produced across the borders will not eventually come home.

I ask my liberal friends (of a certain age): why is it that you loved it when the young, good-looking reformers cut the govt to size and privatized everything in Eastern Europe & you do not seem to like it now?

A wide-ranging conversation with an incredibly smart interlocutor.

With Amit Baishya, siddhartha deb reflects on the Anthropocene’s alien aspects: It’s part of everybody’s world, but it’s also incredibly other. For that reason, he argues, climate collapse is hard to grapple with using just the tools of realism. buff.ly/OFuqNhO

a perfect distillation of what it is to be of northeast India, from the brilliant siddhartha deb

This platform is getting harder to use for a number of reasons. Please connect with me on bluesky. Also not great, but for what it's worth. siddhartha deb.bsky.social

Absolutely!!!

Thank you Siddhartha Mahanta