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opium

  • The art of opium: How the intoxicating drug and its trade captivated artists

    The art of opium: How the intoxicating drug and its trade captivated artists

    Sonal
    · Jan 19, 2025 · 11:30 am
  • How narcopolitics, racial capitalism work in Amitav Ghosh’s ‘The Ibis Trilogy’ and ‘Smoke and Ashes’

    How narcopolitics, racial capitalism work in Amitav Ghosh’s ‘The Ibis Trilogy’ and ‘Smoke and Ashes’

    Sanjita Majumder
    · Nov 09, 2024 · 07:30 am
  • ‘Smoke and Ashes’: Amitav Ghosh’s story of how opium has contributed to creating today’s world

    ‘Smoke and Ashes’: Amitav Ghosh’s story of how opium has contributed to creating today’s world

    Rajat Chaudhuri
    · Aug 05, 2023 · 07:30 am
  • Why Manipur’s civil war is being linked to the narcotics trade

    Why Manipur’s civil war is being linked to the narcotics trade

    Arunabh Saikia
    · Jun 13, 2023 · 09:00 am
  • How De Quincy’s ‘Confessions’ elevated the (opium) addict to a cultural figure for the first time

    How De Quincy’s ‘Confessions’ elevated the (opium) addict to a cultural figure for the first time

    Jamie Q Roberts, The Conversation
    · Feb 04, 2023 · 05:30 pm
  • How opium led to ‘the banality of evil, the birth of megacorporations, the foundation of empires’

    How opium led to ‘the banality of evil, the birth of megacorporations, the foundation of empires’

    Thomas Manuel
    · Aug 19, 2021 · 08:30 am
  • In Arunachal Pradesh, illegal opium cultivation is silently ruining lives and lands

    In Arunachal Pradesh, illegal opium cultivation is silently ruining lives and lands

    Nivedita Khandekar
    · May 09, 2019 · 09:30 pm
  • Punjab: Navjot Singh Sidhu backs MP’s demand to legalise cultivation and sale of opium

    Punjab: Navjot Singh Sidhu backs MP’s demand to legalise cultivation and sale of opium

    Scroll Staff
    · Oct 01, 2018 · 01:34 pm
  • Indians working in exploitative conditions on Italian farms are using opium to numb the pain

    Indians working in exploitative conditions on Italian farms are using opium to numb the pain

    Umberto Bacchi, Thomson Reuters Foundation
    · Jul 21, 2017 · 08:30 pm
  • Punjab is flying high, but the wings came from the British Raj

    Punjab is flying high, but the wings came from the British Raj

    Anuj Gupta
    · Jul 04, 2016 · 11:30 am