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The Publicity Stuff is Exhausting

Posted on 12 May 202212 May 2022 by ilagardien

The hybrid-memoir I wrote, Too White to Be Coloured Too Coloured to be Black: On the Search for Home and Meaning, was published at the end of April. The in-person launch was led by Haji Mohamed Dawjee and the online launch was led by Ferial Haffajee, two of the most exceptional people I know. The…

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The Book has Been Published

Posted on 12 March 2022 by ilagardien

The memoir I worked on last year has been published. It is being distributed to bookstores at the moment. It’s a somewhat daunting thing. I now have to engage in things like book launches, literary festivals (three in the next two months) as well as radio and TV interviews. These are the least favourite things…

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Signing off on the book

Posted on 27 January 202227 January 2022 by ilagardien

In the next t4 hours I will be signing off on the on the book, a hybrid of memoir, commentary and analysis of South Africa’s contemporary history and persistent racial ordering. It should go on sale by 20 March.

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Waiting Anxiously for Book Launch

Posted on 21 January 202229 January 2022 by ilagardien

Well, the final proofs have been done, the pictures (for the picture section) have been submitted, and the book is in the design stage. The expected date of the launch is late March. In the meantime, the publisher and marketing people have suggested that I go back onto social media. So, one month after de-activating…

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2022 & Cutting Down on Social Media

Posted on 24 December 202129 January 2022 by ilagardien

A few years ago I quit Facebook, and by the end of this year I will be off Twitter. Two main reasons for leaving twitter is that it is becoming a rather toxic platform. I will miss the deeply insightful posts and discussions by friends I hold dear, but I can always go to their…

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When, or if borders open in 2022. Until then…

Posted on 23 December 202129 January 2022 by ilagardien

The first half of next year (2022) will be dedicated to the publication, marketing and publicity that will inevitably be part of the release of my memoir. The publishers have made the final decision on the title, and they will probably present it to me after the design and final proof process in early January….

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RSS Financial Times

  • Biden and Yoon agree to step up deterrence against North Korea
  • ‘Like a frat house’: can UK parliament’s culture be reformed?
  • ‘Collateral damage’: ESG funds pulled down by tumble in tech shares
  • Ukraine’s long and winding road towards the EU
  • Ruling on US pandemic border restrictions leaves thousands in limbo

RSS Branko Milanovic Personal Blog

  • The many in one: A review of Amartya Sen’s “Home in the world: A memoir”
    No contemporary famous economist has as broad interests and knowledge, nor as diverse life experience as Amartya Sen. It is not surprising that many have been looking forward to reading the first volume of his memoirs. It covers the period from his birth in 1933 to the beginnings of his academic career in the United […]
  • The novelty of technologically regressive import substitution
     In the next decade or so, the history of economic policy will be enriched by a new, never imagined, experiment: how to accomplish technologically regressive import substitution? This is the problem that Russia will have to face and that is entirely new. To explain why it is new, consider first what is import substitution. It […]
  • The lessons and implications of seizing Russian oligarchs’ assets
     The first and the most obvious lesson that we can draw from the confiscation of Russian oligarchs’ assets is that the pre-February 24 Russia was not an oligarchy, as many believed, but an authoritarian autocracy. Instead of being ruled by a few rich people, it was ruled by one person. To draw this (rather obvious) […]
  • The evolution of Karl Marx: a review of Kevin B. Anderson’s “Marx at the Margins”
     The goal of this very well-researched and well-written book is to show the evolution in Marx’s thinking away from the unilinear view of historical evolution, going  from primitive communism to slave-owning societies to feudalism to capitalism and, in the future, to socialism and communism. This unilinear scheme of history that in Capitalism, Alone I called […]
  • Long term: Difficulties of import substitution and delocalization
     When we look at Russia’s long-term economic prospects, it is also useful to begin with some assumptions and to look at historical examples. We can make two assumptions. First, that the current Russian regime, in one form or another, might continue for some ten to twenty years. Second, we can assume that American and Western […]

RSS BBC World News

  • Monkeypox: 80 cases confirmed in 12 countries
  • Tornado in Germany injures 43 people, police say
  • Dying of cold on the streets of São Paulo
  • Biden plan to end US migrant expulsion policy blocked
  • Ukraine war: The volunteer drivers risking their lives to save others

RSS Channelnews Asia

  • Russian military says it destroyed Western arms consignment in Ukraine
  • Out of neutral, F1 drivers shift debate as well as gears
  • No monkeypox infections detected in Singapore since imported case in 2019: MOH
  • Loh Kean Yew survives scare, through to SEA Games badminton singles final
  • No new COVID cases in NZ camp ahead of Sussex warm-up game

RSS Singapore Straits Times

  • Russian military says it destroys Western arms consignment in Ukraine
  • British PM Johnson must explain meeting with 'partygate' report author, says opposition
  • Zelensky says only 'diplomacy' can end Ukraine war
  • Facebook slammed for spreading Putin's propaganda in Nato's east
  • Britain wants to arm Moldova to protect it from Russian threat
  • Russia targets Ukraine's last link to besieged east
  • Putin's war means Russia's rich aren't welcome at Davos anymore
  • Russia stops Finland gas flow over payments dispute
  • Russia hustles to recruit soldiers and halts gas supplies to Finland
  • Chaos in Israel gives new chance to Benjamin Netanyahu

RSS Business Times

  • Asia’s glaring insurance gap: a risk we cannot afford to ignore
    MITIGATING climate change and addressing climate risk will be among the most important challenges humanity will be focusing on, now and in years to come.
  • Asia well-poised to harness potential of plastics circular economy: Circulate Capital
    INVESTORS can play a key role in reducing plastic waste and must rouse themselves from the sidelines where they’ve historically parked themselves to allocate more capital towards this - especially given the significant investment opportunities in the plastics circular economy in Asia, in particular. 

RSS The Economist

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RSS Malay Mail

  • MACC says done investigating judge who convicted Najib, sent papers to AG
  • Don’t allow AP abolition to affect the interest of local agricultural food entrepreneurs, says Muhyiddin
  • Amid Tajuddin controversy, foreign minister says Putrajaya screens envoys exhaustively

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Anti-G8 and Anti-War Graffiti in Geneva 2003

Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003

Bastakiya, Dubai 2012

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