Miracle of the Magpie
Anatole FranceILENT, of the year 1429, presented a strange marvel of the Calendar, a conjunction that moved the admiration not only of the common crowd of the Faithful, but eke of Clerks, well...
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Corporeal Punishment, English & Homosocial Tactility
Niladri R. Chatterjee There is a story I had once heard somewhere about a Western woman visiting Calcutta. This was her second visit. The first visit was in the...
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Two Walls : Art & Land
“One Project. Two Sites.” Curator Josef Ng warned viewers at the start that Lin Yilin’s project, carried out in Chiang Mai and Bangkok, presents two utterly different sides of itself. And in the...
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No More A Barrier Than A Couple of Beers Between Us
We are Invincible. We Cannot, We do not Deserve to Lose [La Jornada 2/7] February 2, 1994 To Mr. Gaspar Morquecho Escamilla, Tiempo newspaper, San Cristóbal de las Casas:...
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Death and the Automobile
Priyasha Mukhopadhyay The driving force behind every nation’s story of progress is a motor car In his introduction to Paul Virilio’s Speed and Politics Benjamin Bratton writes of how a...
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Bandmaster @ Cossipore
Akhlaq Dorjee Chanda (Poems dedicated to Tushar Roy) Factory Tagore Juggling oranges and eggs. Plus, tables for 17 memorised At such tender age? Remarkable acumen. Nothing surprises...
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Darling of a Pigmy Size: Parenting, Child Care and Child-at-Risk
Aryak Guha The Image-Event “A two and a half year old boy banging his head on the floor whenever he sees his mother is a very disturbing scene, but that is...
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