interview with david shulman in Scroll
‘The long history of Sanskrit has many faces, including voices of protest and revolt’: David Shulman Dec 30, 2018 · 07:39 am Veena Muthuraman in Scroll
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What happened when I walked into the world’s quietest place
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/24/what-happened-when-i-walked-into-the-worlds-most-silent-place My time in the anechoic chamber was a forceful reminder that most of the sounds we hear come to us indirectly; reflected into our ears by the things and people around us. Sound is a shared experience, formed as much by the environment we live in as it is by whatever happens to produce …
Google’s Earth: how the tech giant is helping the state spy on us
The long read: Google’s Earth: how the tech giant is helping the state spy on us TL;DR The G in Google stands for Government and the Os are its eyes
‘Our memories have vanished’: the Palestinian theatre destroyed in a bomb strike
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/aug/22/our-memories-have-vanished-the-palestinian-theatre-destroyed-in-a-bomb-strike
India – the State of Independence
Colin Todhunter, Off-Guardian India celebrates its independence from Britain on 15 August. However, the system of British colonial dominance has been replaced by a new hegemony based on the systemic rule of transnational capital, enforced by global institutions like the World Bank and WTO. At the same time, global agribusiness corporations are stepping into the …
Alex Jones isn’t the censorship crisis that should scare us
Alex Jones isn’t the censorship crisis that should scare us
Amitav Ghosh on V.S. Naipaul’s Pitiless Mirror
https://thewire.in/books/v-s-naipaul-gave-us-both-richly-textured-islands-and-interchangeable-caricatures After his turn to non-fiction, he would never again look at life outside the West on its own terms: India, the Caribbean and Africa would become faded backdrops on which to project a vision of the West, England in particular.
China’s social credit system ‘could interfere in other nations’ sovereignty’
China’s social credit system ‘could interfere in other nations’ sovereignty’ While Indians worry about the Aadhaar, which is creating a really insecure central database of its 1.32 billion citizens’ biometric and demographic data, China is creating a much more ambitious social credit system for total state control of its’ own 1.35 billion.
Series of lectures on genocide
Jason Campbell’s lecture series on genocide
Online communities before the web
The woman who taught internet strangers to actually care for one another Founded before the first web browser, Echo still exists today, nurturing a small but devoted family of users. This makes it among the oldest continuously operating online communities in history.