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Durgesh Solanki
Durgesh Solanki is a Sociology Ph.D. student at Johns Hopkins University. He studies caste, race, disease, and empire.

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Isabel Wilkerson's ‘Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents’

Book Review

October 2020

Durgesh Solanki

Book Review

October 2020

In 1498 the colonial explorer Vasco da Gama reached Kerala, on the West Coast of present-day India. The Portuguese first came as traders, but...

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April 2012

Oradour-sur-Glane: Reflections on the Culture of Memorial in Europe

Will Stone

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April 2012

Que nos caravanes s’avancent Vers ce lieu marqué par le sang Une plaie au coeur de la France Y...

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November 2013

Shine On You Crazy Diamond

George Szirtes

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November 2013

And so they shone, every one of them, each crazy, everyone a diamond shining the way things shine, each...

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September 2013

For All Mankind: A Brief Cultural History of the Moon

Henry Little

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September 2013

For almost the entirety of man’s recorded 50,000-year history the moon has been unattainable. Alternately a heavenly body, the...

 

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