Shirsho Dasgupta

uscannenbergmedia.com

Los Angeles celebrates Indigenous Peoples Day

Los Angeles celebrated the city’s first ever Indigenous Peoples Day on Monday.

uscstoryspace.com

Forced Out: How a Decades-Old Community is Under Threat from Gentrification

A story on a community of around 70 people facing evictions to make way for a real-estate project to build a luxury residential-cum-commercial complex.

uscannenbergmedia.com

Lyft deactivated a driver’s account after he allegedly dumped four USC students on a freeway

A social media post by USC student Sydney Nguyen alleged that a Lyft driver dumped her and her companions in the middle of the I-10 freeway more than five miles from their destination around 1 a.m on Friday.

uscstoryspace.com

Fighting Back: How L.A.'s Homeless are Struggling to be Heard

Across Los Angeles County, homeless people are working to make their voices heard in the political sphere. This is one such story.

The Hindu

A literary fest with a difference

People’s Literary Festival, held in Kolkata last month, means to grow into an alternative to mainstream corporate-sponsored literature fests.

The Guardian

[Re-publication] Want to understand politics in the last 25 years? Look at football

In the early 1990s a few ambitious politicians rejected redistribution for a ‘new capitalism’ based on equal opportunities and the free market. Some people became filthy rich and others turned to grassroots politics. Sound familiar?

doingtherondo.com

The Match That Never Was

When Inter Milan visited Mönchengladbach, the low capacity of Bökelbergstadion with its wooden terraces consolidated their belief that their opponents were just a small provincial club enjoying some luck in the domestic league. Confident of success, Inter took the pitch on a cold night on 20 October 1971 in a match that would come to be knows as Partita della Lattina — “the match of the can.”

thesefootballtimes.co

How a self-imposed stereotype and the Bosman ruling caused the demise of Dutch football

Historically, the success of the Dutch national team coincided with many of their stars playing at a select few clubs. Now, however, with diminished talent spread around Europe, the Oranje are struggling to formulate a coherent philosophy in a nation that demands beautiful football. That, coupled with an exodus of talent post-Bosman Ruling have led to the demise of the once-trailblazing "Dutch model".

doingtherondo.com

Gabriel Kuhn on modern football and how an “implosion” is the only way the sport can save itself

Active in radical politics since the late 1980s, Gabriel Kuhn is also a historian, ex-semi-professional soccer player, and the author of Soccer vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics.
I had a chat with Gabriel on the origins of the game, its perceptions across continents, the state of the sport today, alternate clubs and possibilities of interventions, and the future of soccer itself.

inbedwithmaradona.com

Take It Easy: the politics of walking football

Shirsho Dasgupta explores the politics behind Walking Football -- an alternate form of soccer growing in popularity in leaps and bounds.

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Beyond The Touchline: how the football stadium reflects today's political quagmire

"Beyond the touchline, there is nothing." -- Jacques Derrida

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Red Soccer: how the Soviet avant-garde ushered in modern football

"Our world, like a charnel-house, lies strewn with the detritus of dead epochs!"

-- Le Corbusier

The Guardian

[Re-publication] What we see when we watch football: how replays and close-ups ...

The camera angles and photos used in football coverage – pictures that zoom in on individuals – mirror our view of the world.

inbedwithmaradona.com

What We See When We Watch Football

IBWM Senior Writer Shirsho Dasgupta delves into the politics of watching the beautiful game.

inbedwithmaradona.com

The Tempest

Bielsa is unlike any other manager of today. Marseille is unlike any other French city.