HeyJaredLeher Kala
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- Jul 26, 2026
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- Jul 12, 2026
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Leher Kala writes: How to be a dissident (opens the original)
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When I was still in school in 1990, 20-something Rajeev Goswami, studying in Delhi University, poured oil and set himself on fire amid a crowd of supporters. Like many other upper-caste students at the time, Goswami was protesting the proposed 27 percent quota for backward classes in government jobs. His shocking act — self-immolation — won sympathy all around, triggering a spate of similar, horrifying suicides but an anti-reservation movement was bound to fail. Morally, it’s hard to disagree wi
The beautiful and the damned (opens the original)
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In Tehran, the racy show I’m currently watching, one episode, The Rich Kids, contrasts the gritty world of espionage with the hedonistic lifestyles of Iran’s young elite. Satirising the wealthy is a popular cultural trope — Succession, The White Lotus, Gossip Girl successfully capture the idiosyncrasies of extreme privilege, leaving the viewer with the (temporarily) comforting thought that potfuls of money are no guarantee of freedom from trauma. The nature of wealth and its effect on our choice
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