Siddhartha Mitter
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1967 - 2025

A loss beyond loss.
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NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...
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Afraid not ! It’s just a quick visit this time but I shall be back
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This is true of many literature Nobelists, no?
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The hour-long analysis show on the Nobel Literature Prize on @franceculture.fr informs that Krasznahorkai is great "once you accept the postulate of sentences that never end."
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I saw Houellebecq on some lists, which would pair well too
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Nice piece on the brilliant Igor Simões and the making of "Dos Brasis — Arte e Pensamento Negro," surely one of the best and most important exhibitions anywhere in recent years

www.getty.edu/news/celebra...
Celebrating the Breadth of Black Art in Brazil
How one art historian is expanding the narrative of art history
www.getty.edu
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One thing about geopolitics — it's interesting.
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It’s Marwan Bishara season again
Screenshot of Al Jazeera senior analyst Marwan Bishara on air this evening
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omg if houellebecq gets literature then trump is definitely getting peace
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The political anthropologists teach us that ethnicity is situational. The historians teach us that colonial powers designate "tribes" for their imperial ends.

(The 1980s Afrocentrist Dr. Leonard Jeffries* also had things to say about "ice people," maybe he was ahead of the time.)

*uncle of Hakeem
siddharthamitter.bsky.social
The political anthropologists teach us that ethnicity is situational. The historians teach us that colonial powers designate "tribes" for their imperial ends.

(The 1980s Afrocentrist Dr. Leonard Jeffries* also had things to say about "ice people," maybe he was ahead of the time.)

*uncle of Hakeem
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You have a career in branding !