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Varsha Adalja; Gujarati
Gauri Deshpande; Marathi
Malini Bhattacharya; Bengali
Ambai; Tamil
Chhaya Datar; Marathi
Meherunnisa Pervez; Hindi
Pratibha Ray; Oriya

Perks of a good sound system: blasting the soundtrack to 'The Curse of the Black Pearl' to enhance the mood.

I suspect my copy wandered off in an ill recorded purge, but that's what the library is for (nevermind that this whole white male ubiquitous access is part and parcel of the problem I rail against both personally and professionally, sometimes you have to see for yourself what you're talking about).

Book will get lovingly featured by the top literary critics around and the loudest populists on this site will STILL dog whistle about it. Great, don't read it, you obviously don't deserve it. Huge parts of the world around you are going to feel seen regardless of your issues.

Would prefer not to knock a rare constellation of personal interests auch as this, but I didn't realize kidnapping someone enacted a psychically amatonormative chastity belt in return.

Organization's a little rough, especially when the author gets on her 'humanizing the abject but sex work is a bridge too far' soap box.

'The poor stand still, because the rich have no money to employ them, though they have the same land and hands to provide victuals and clothes, as ever they had; . . . which is the true Riches of a Nation, and not the money' (John Bellers, Proposals for Raising a Colledge of Industry, London, 1696, pp. 3-4).

Panna Naik; Gujarati
Anupama Niranjana; Kannada
Brahmotri Mahanti; Oriya
Madhavikutty (Kamala Das); Malayalam
Sugatha Kumari; Malayalam
Rajee Seth; Hindi
Wajeda Tabassum; Urdu
Binapani Mohanty; Oriya
Manjul Bhagat; Hindi
Jeelani Bano; Urdu

The money is petrified into a hoard, and the sellers of commodities becomes a hoarder of money.

This page is 1/6th text and 5/6ths footnoted footnotes, at best.

Sometimes, self-indulgence is in order (especially with how rarely I see these kinds of works on the market).

Someone complaining about 'this' generation and the complainer's not even forty. Get a grip, Burgermeister Meisterburger.

What was yesterday undoubtedly labour-time socially necessary to the production of linen ceases to be so today, a fact which the owner of the money is only too eager to prove from the prices quoted by our friend's competitors. Unluckily for the weaver, people of his kind are in plentiful supply.

I didn't realize that fighting vampires forbids you from masturbating.

Zahida Zaidi; Urdu
Rajalekshmy; Malayalam
Kabita Sinha; Bengali
Chudamani Raghavan; Tamil
Mannu Bhandari; Hindi
Ratakonda Vasundhara Devi; Telugu
Meena Kumari Naz; Urdu
Jaya Mehta; Gujarati
Abburi Chaya Devi; Telugu

So now the search results page is fucked too. May have to just use DuckDuckGo to do anything search related in GRAmazon from now on, whoever's driving this train is too capitalism brained to be trusted with maintaining professional workflow.

Triveni (Anasuya Shankar); Kannada
Sulekha Sanyal; Bengali (Nabanjur126739307 is promising)
Baby Kamble; Marathi
Saroj Pathak; Gujarati

[B]ecause the objectivity of commodities as values is the purely 'social existence' of these things, it can only be expressed through the whole range of their social relations; consequently the form of their value must possess social validity.

Dudala Salamma; Telugu
Dhiruben Patel; Gujarati (hoping to track her down in fuller form)
Mahasweta Devi; Bengali (top rec from me)
Sajida Zaidi; Urdu
Anuradha Potdar ; Marathi
Kundanika Kapadia; Gujarati
Kamal Desai ; Marathi

Finally going to start clearing out these white boys that have been clogging my most rated TBR shelves for a decade and a half, wish me luck.

...it is a death, okay, to be employed is a sort of death, a death of self, and to be unemployed is also a particular kind of death, is it not? she says, and to stop resourcing the plants, those that survive in the most extreme of weather? Isn't it a dying event?

As for Jackson, when HR listened to what he had to say, he didn't come off as especially angry but rather like he was calmly pointing out some sort of clerical error.

Shanta Shelke - Pannashi Ultunhi (Even Past Fifty); Marathi
Achanta Sarada Devi - Moonlight Locked in the Woods; Telugu
Shivani (Gaura Pant) - Dadi; Hindi
Hansa Wadkar - You Ask, I Tell: An Autobiography; Marathi
Siddiqa Begum Sevharvi - The Stars Are Trembling; Urdu

When corporate heads tell frustrated workers that foreign imports are taking their jobs, then they are acting like an agitator of a lynch mob.

She is only late because everyone else wants to have the upper hand! They all want to live in the near future.

To coordinate and administer its investigations, the government created the "Confession Program": Chinese residing in the United States illegally were encouraged to come forward and confess their guilt to the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Confessors were required to give full disclosure of every relative and friend. A single confession could implicate scores of individuals. In return, the government would..

"It is difficult to describe the feeling of despair and humiliation experienced by all of us," said another evacuee, "as we watched the Caucasians coming to look over our possessions and offering such nominal amounts knowing we had no recourse but to accept whatever they were offering because we did not know what the future held for us."

...even when wages rise the needs of the workers as human beings are denied.

...the idea that any giant corporation, whatever its dimensions or power, could emanicipate itself definititively from the compulsion of (monopolistic) competition, that is, could have a guaranteed specific demand for its products, independently of the trade cycle and from technological innovation, could make sense only if it were insulated both from economic fluctuations and from economic uncertainty, that is if...

Attempt #11203 at making local human connections: local anarchist bookstore's in person year long group read, here we come.