A Seventh Man in 2017
In 2010, Verso published a new edition of John Berger’s 1975 book A Seventh Man. Here’s…
Our Corporate Anthem
The year is 2018. After a period of global warfare, the nation-state system has dissolved. In…
How Can She Slap?
Some time back, as the month of July came to a close, two politicians from Tamil…
The Textbook Wars
Sometimes censorship is a collective effort. It is not always imposed top-down by an all-powerful…
Peeling Back The Onion’s Layers
After the horrific Orlando shootings, which left 50 dead, my Facebook feed was filled with posts…
The Last Laugh
Is he for real? This is the question I keep on asking myself as I watch…
Panama Panic
On 3 April, newspapers around the world published their first reports based on their investigation of…
Donald Trump Ki Jai!
The US presidential election season has brought with it a slew of articles claiming that social…
NRI vs NRI
I really wanted to write a contrarian column this month, upending the critical consensus on the…
Broken News
As I write these lines (in late January, if you’re keeping track), a group of armed…