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Neoliberal Capitalist Globalisation has fundamentally altered Agrarian relations

24 November 2023

24 November 202312 min readJournal

Neoliberal Capitalist Globalisation has fundamentally altered Agrarian relations

An Essay on “Washington Consensus um thekkele narayanettante paadathe nellum” written last year. The story of Thachanakkara, a not-so-fictitious land in central Kerala…

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The Glass Palace and its contours of British colonial exploitation of Burma

4 December 2022

4 December 202210 min readJournal

The Glass Palace and its contours of British colonial exploitation of Burma

Indian gunners in Burma (photograph) by Cecil Beaton is licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 ‘THE GLASS PALACE’ functions as a metaphor, ‘glass is brittle and implies…

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