Orwell 1984 – revisited in 2019

BOOK REVIEW Doublethink Is Stronger Than Orwell Imagined What 1984 means today GEORGE PACKER JULY 2019 ISSUE The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984 BY DORIAN LYNSKEY DOUBLEDAY OLIVER MUNDAY No novel of the past century has had more influence than George Orwell’s 1984. The title, the adjectival form of the author’s…

The Babu : never good enough !

From someone who has been there and seen it mostly.A good read that is both honest and sympathetic.yet critical.https://medium.com/@kbssidhu1961/ias-individually-brilliant-but-collectively-mediocre-4a7085428235 I would have, however, firstly liked to hear on the popular failing of the love for power and lack of scruples of quite a few - especially those looking to make easy money in the past…

The seduction of the working class in India and beyond

The Left is trying to introspect on its ideological failures.Even of its practice since the post war...