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Perils of becoming a post-literate society | Ash Narain Roy

Ash Narain Roy — 2025-10-11T10:56:24Z

- 2025

Trump heads an ultra-capitalist, hyper-technological, neo-monarchy | Ash Narain Roy

Ash Narain Roy — 2025-06-21T16:35:25Z

Thy hand, great Anarch! let

- 2025

Trump heads ultra-capitalist, hyper-technological, neo-monarchy | Ash Narain Roy

Ash Narain Roy — 2025-05-24T02:43:21Z

Thy hand, great Anarch! let

- 2025

Vargas Llosa loved and loathed Castro

Ash Narain Roy — 2025-04-20T01:31:40Z

The death of Peruvian writer, journalist, essayist and politician and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa marks the end of a golden age of Latin American literature. With his demise the Latin American boon has faded. As Angel Esteban del Campo of University of Granada, Spain, writes,

- 2025

James Bond has returned to international politics | Ash Narain Roy

Ash Narain Roy — 2025-03-15T07:10:57Z

In the 2021 James Bond film No Time to Die, the protagonist sacrifices himself and saves the world. The film, however, ends with a familiar swagger: "James Bond will return." Donald Trump promises no such sacrifice but is hell-bent on destroying America

- 2025

End of love affair with the left? | Ash Narain Roy

Ash Narain Roy — 2025-02-15T03:30:06Z

Are 21st century ideologues suffering from a kind of ecotopia and a paralysis of imagination? We seem to be moving towards the slow decay of critical thinking. We don

- 2025

Battle of ideas, not battle of leaflets | Ash Narain Roy

Ash Narain Roy — 2025-01-18T20:30:13Z

US President-elect Donald Trump

- 2025

Chronicle of deaths foretold | Ash Narain Roy

Ash Narain Roy — 2021-06-04T21:19:10Z

by Ash Narain Roy
The Covid-19 pandemic marks what American writer and futurist Alwin Toffler calls “the premature arrival of the future.” It has led to an unprecedented craving for the past and put a big question mark on the future. While reeling under the Covid-19 pandemic, much of humanity finds itself “alone together,” stranded as it is in what American poet Rachel Hadas calls “our shared nowhere,” politics in India is going through magical unrealism. India is witnessing a tragedy of (…)

- 2021

Latin America: Another World is Possible

Ash Narain Roy — 2012-09-02T11:03:03Z

With the entrenchment of democracy, new paradigms of governance are emerging in Latin America. Some would say, a new Latin America is emerging, with a new trajectory of growth, stability and confidence. It is not Castro or Ortega but Chavez, Morales, Kirchner, Lula and many others who have shown that another world is possible. The unmistakable message from Latin America is that there is a world beyond neoliberalism. The past one decade or so has witnessed the emergence of viable alternatives (…)

- 2012

Is the US Now a Third World Country?

Ash Narain Roy — 2011-08-20T20:22:39Z

All these years, the US sat in judgment over the economic crisis faced by the Third World countries and cited credit ratings agencies' adverse reports to damn them. Latin America in particular, suffering from hyperinflation and astronomical debt, had grown used to receiving bitter medicine and sermons from the US. Ironically, Latin American economies are today flourishing and the US seems to be running out of money to service its mounting debt. Experts believe that the credit contraction (…)

- 2011