2 December 1984: Bhopal disaster
Mini podcast of radical history on this date from the Working Class History team.
Quite Contrary
Arundhati Roy’s memoir of her mother
Looking for Love in a Time of Global Loneliness: A Profile of Kiran Desai
Within the first few pages of The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, Kiran Desai’s stunning new novel, the fissures among generations, cultures, classes, and countries become abundantly clear. When Dadaji…
Portalpettai
by Avakkai and Chukka 24 pages. 5.8" x 4.1". 100 g Zine ISBN: 9789380636290 Portalpettai is an illustrated mini-book about an interdimensional portal which opens at a women's college in…
Hanumankind Is Aiming Even Bigger Than ‘Big Dawgs’
In an era when more music is being released each day than in the entire year of 1989, according to one estimate, it takes a singular talent to cut through…
The Indian Rebellion of 1857: everything you wanted to know
What ignited resentment at British rule in India into outright violence? How brutal was British troops' suppression of the uprising? And how did the events of 1857 poison relations between…
Towers of Silence
this story is about a specific thing but also about how a system collapses when the keystone is removed
How Farmers Reshaped a Region and Solved Drought
Permaculture Instructor Andrew Millison travels to the village of Laporiyah in Rajasthan India to see the 45 year water harvesting and community development project spearheaded by waterman Laxman Singh. We…
Episode 236: Creating Hindu Fantasy Worlds
Shveta Thakrar (Star Daughter, The Dream Runners), Kritika H. Rao (The Surviving Sky), Roshani Chokshi (Aru Shah, The Star Touched Queen), and Ram V (The Many Deaths of Laila Starr)…
The 100th birthday of Indian chemist Asima Chatterjee
For the latest Google Doodle, the search giant is honoring an award-winning chemist whose research in organic chemistry had a profound impact on how plants are used for medicinal purposes.…