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Arundhati Roy Talks Media, Authoritarianism in India and Challenging US Wars
We go to New Delhi, India, to speak with acclaimed Indian author and activist Arundhati Roy about the pandemic, U.S. militarism and the state of
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‘PM should be only for 5 years’: Frustrated Arundhati demands at Jamia event on 2 years of anti-CAA violence
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The Continued Evolving and Deepening of a Network Commitment and Innovation: FSNE’s 21 Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” -James Baldwin “Things are not getting worse.
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‘Lokpal bill movement led by elites like Kejriwal and Sisodia will create a parallel govt’: When Arundhati Roy made sense a decade ago
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Hinduphobic comments, incendiary speeches and a small crowd: Here is what happened at Elgar Parishad 2021
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Arundhati Roy compares ‘protest by farmers’ to ‘struggle by Naxals’: Here is what she said and how dangerous her words really are
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To cheer you up in difficult times 16: Optimism, two quotes
A timely quote “If there’s so much shit around, there has to be a pony somewhere.” Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things and Give me a couple
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The Pandemic is a portal: What will you choose as your new normal?
Last week I was reflecting with some colleagues about how life has changed since March. Without traveling I have been able to slow down, create
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Why Aren’t Famous Women Professionals Known by Their Last Names?
A few days ago, I was sitting in front of my laptop with some 20-odd tabs open in what could only be described as another unimpressive day during
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The best non-fiction books this autumn
If silver linings are the best we can hope for these days, then let us mark the glut of exciting new writing being published this autumn as one.
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Love, Death and Revolution in a time of Covid-19
DON’T MISS ANYTHING! ONE CLICK TO GET NEW MATILDA DELIVERED DIRECT TO YOUR INBOX, FREE! ‘You don’t understandIt is the secret called Poetry
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Staff Picks: Seven July Book Recommendations
Still have more time on your hands than you know what to do with and hungry for even more staff book recommendations? This month we decided to
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Where to now, friends?
Hola, comrades! Summer is here in the Northern Hemisphere, which means we’re half way through this annus horribilis that is 2020. Less than six
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Where to now, friends?
Hola, comrades! Summer is here in the Northern Hemisphere, which means we’re half way through this annus horribilis that is 2020. Less than six
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Sixes and Sevens #39
My weekly collection of the provocative, intriguing, or curious, in a world where the house is falling down. The contextual, the cultural, and other