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Pulp History
in which bogey attends an awards function. Happy May Day, all. This year, being a somewhat socialist/somewhat liberal, I decided to celebrate by recalling other ditherers in Indian history. Thus, the Romantic Revolutionary M.N. Roy straddles both ‘internal’ challenges to liberalism in the last century: socialism and nationalism. He used each to challenge the orthodoxies […]
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tis black/out back.
The only reason this post isn’t called this fuckin’ ‘verse! is cos I was scared of the search-spam said title would generate. I have been burned, and I repent, whatever Gibbon might think. Well, then. Last month the mylaw books column was all about women. It was an exercise I undertook with a fair measure […]
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The Mantle of the Vicious Bitch
I’ve been in television hibernation this past month, and it took the centenary of women’s day to draw me out. I’ve always been iffy on the subject of women’s day — why, precisely, are we celebrating half of humanity? I guess any publicity- look, we exist- is better than none. Here I am. Watch me […]
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Simple Twist of Fate.
This birthday post is for someone I have shared my life with for the better part of four years. You might recognise him as the voice of reason in “Books, Boyfriends, and Bandits“, and it has often been claimed (and not only by him) that he is the saner of the two of us. Personally, […]
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Mirrors & Myths.
This is the creature there has never been. They never knew it, and yet, nonetheless, they loved the way it moved, its limber neck, its very gaze, mild and serene. Not there, because they loved it, it behaved as though it were. They always left some space. And in that clear unpeopled space they saved […]