George Orwell

Lounge

70 years of ‘1984’: Nightmare between the covers

From Franz Kafka to Margaret Atwood and beyond, Lounge picks five writers whose dystopian novels endureTotalitarianism, misogyny, and life in ghettos under oppressive regimes come alive in these book

2 min read28 Jun 2019
Lounge

70 years of ‘1984’: Nightmare between the covers

From Franz Kafka to Margaret Atwood and beyond, Lounge picks five writers whose dystopian novels endureTotalitarianism, misogyny, and life in ghettos under oppressive regimes come alive in these book

2 min read28 Jun 2019
Opinion

The problem with labels

Labels pervert your engagement with other people and their ideas

4 min read21 Jul 2017
Industry

Satya Nadella says tech sector needs to prevent dystopian ‘1984' future

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in his presentation at Seattle stressed on the need to build trust in technology, saying new applications must avoid dystopian futures feared by some

3 min read11 May 2017
Mint-lounge

Brave new words in 1845?

What could possibly have prompted Kylas Chunder Dutt to write, in 1835, a novella titled 'A Journal Of Forty-Eight Hours of The Year 1945?', an imaginary armed uprising against the British

3 min read24 Feb 2017
Companies

Holacracy and its discontents

Is Holacracy and the boss-less company the next big thing?

7 min read12 Apr 2016
Mint-lounge

When foreign battles draw the young

Why do young men and women want to leave their country to fight faraway wars?

5 min read9 Jan 2016
Opinion

Thresholds of offence

If 'vigilante' action is simply forbidden, we can avoid even beginning the cycle that leads to mob violence

4 min read26 Oct 2015