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Narendra Pachkhédé

is a critic and writer who splits his time between Toronto, London and Geneva.

55 articles published

“It’s Bisan from Gaza, and I’m Still Alive”

“The assassination of a journalist is not only the murder of a voice, but an attempt to annihilate the right of the world to know, to understand, and to bear witness to suffering.” – Shireen Abu Akleh, Al Jazeera’s Palestinian-American journalist, killed by Israeli sniper on 11 May 2022 The 25-year-old Palestinian journalist…

ByNarendra PachkhédéSeptember 28, 20240Comments

The author with Pankaj Mishra

A Kidnapped West in the Times of Genocide

"How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.” — Karl Kraus in Die Letzten Tage der Menschheit (The Last Days of Mankind), 1919 One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis. —Karl Kraus, in Harry Zohn (ed.), Half-Truths & One-and-a-Half Truths -…

ByNarendra PachkhédéSeptember 25, 20240Comments

Macron Lives Up to ‘Le Disrupteur’ Title

(This is the Second Part of the French Politics and Elections essay. Read the first part here) "The issue of the whole was that what with opposition, and what with success, a violent and malignant zeal, of a kind hitherto unknown in the world, had taken an entire possession of their minds and rendered their…

ByNarendra PachkhédéSeptember 12, 20240Comments

Rescuing Western Politics Under Gaza’s Moral Burden

By Narendra Pachkhédé "The attempt to politicize everything is the destruction of politics. When everything is seen as relevant to politics, than politics has in fact become totalitarian." ― Bernard Crick, In Defence of Politics, (Second Edition), 1981 In these fraught times, with the 2024 Democratic National…

ByNarendra PachkhédéAugust 24, 20240Comments

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From Paris With Chaos: Western Politics’ Future Unfolds

"We feel nostalgia for a place simply because we've lived there; whether we lived well or badly scarcely matters. The past is always beautiful. So, for that matter, is the future. Only the present hurts, and we carry it around like an abscess of suffering, our companion between two infinities of happiness and peace." …

ByNarendra PachkhédéJuly 28, 20240Comments