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life to those shadows // in the claws of light
i'm south asian and i like sci-fi, cinema, and dialectical materialism.
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We all suspected this but it’s incredible to see a systematic study on the automation of caste bias in GPT-5. The harm is immense, especially when we consider India is already OpenAI’s second largest market. Screenshots of findings that will haunt me below www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/01/1...
OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias.
www.technologyreview.com
October 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Now online: 'Nepal: The Failure of Refurbished Stalinism and Maoism, the Attempts by Hindutva and Imperialism' by Kunal Chattopadhyay.
Nepal: The Failure of Refurbished Stalinism and Maoism, the Attempts by Hindutva and Imperialism - Historical Materialism
Nepal has been in the news. Gen Z agitators, who began agitations following a ban on several social media platforms, were rooted in public anger at corruption and display of wealth by government figur...
www.historicalmaterialism.org
September 16, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Smita Patil in Bhumika (1977) dir. Shyam Benegal
September 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
re: the events that have taken place in #nepal over the past two days.
📣 NEW RELEASE📣

Once revolutionary, Bangladesh’s student-led party now courts dubious allies. What does this say about “post-ideological” politics?

An excerpt from Nijjor Manush’s new book Inquilab Zindabad?: www.jamhoor.org/read/militan...
September 10, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Smita Patil in Mirch Masala (1986) dir. Ketan Mehta
September 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Julia Hertäg reflects in NLR 154 on three generations of Arbeiterfilme, from the radical expressionism of the Weimar era and 1960s militancy to the damning portrayals of post-reunification Germany presented by contemporary filmmakers.

newleftreview.org/issues/ii154...
September 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Fragments of a Past by Uma Chakravarti (2013), a documentary on the life of Mythili Sivaraman, who was deeply involved in the trade union movement in Tamil Nadu, and co-founded AIDWA.
Fragments of a Past
YouTube video by PSBT India
www.youtube.com
September 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
ousmane sembene in ceddo (1977) and faat kine (2001)
September 2, 2025 at 3:37 AM
ousmane sembene in tauw (1970) and emitai (1971)
September 2, 2025 at 3:36 AM
ousmane sembene in la noire de... (1966) and mandabi (1968)
September 2, 2025 at 3:34 AM