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Hegemony and Language – Why do we lose our ancestral language?
It does not do to rank the darkest chapters of human history, but if the topic should arise, a strong case can be made for the rapacious greed and violence central to British rule over the Indian subcontinent. The inverse of the journey taken by my grandfather centuries later, the British East India Company (EIC),…
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An Eldritch Horror of Our Own Creation
DISCLAIMER: It is impossible to discuss Eldritch horror without discussing H.P. Lovecraft. However, the author’s condemnable racial prejudice and xenophobia is present in his literary works. These have, understandably, caused discomfort amongst readers, but I nevertheless encourage engagement with his work, to understand the foundation of a genre whose themes permeate great work of recent…