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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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June 2013

Ghosts and Relics: The Haunting Avant-Garde

John Douglas Millar

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June 2013

‘The avant-garde can’t be ignored, so to ignore it – as most humanist British novelists do – is the...

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May 2013

Techno-primitivism

Vanessa Hodgkinson

David Trotter

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May 2013

What follows could have been an essay or an interview. In the event, it resembles the one as little...

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January 2014

Afterword: The Death of the Translator

George Szirtes

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January 2014

1. The translator meets himself emerging from his lover’s bedroom. So much for fidelity, he thinks. 2. Je est...

 

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