In Malerkotla, One Can Find the Vestiges of India’s Forgotten History of Tolerance
The senseless and relentless march of violence has made us forget who we are and how we have lived, worked and prayed together for centuries.
Experiments in Education: The early years of Visva Bharati and Dacca University
In 1921, Bengal witnessed the foundation of two universities: Visva Bharati and Dacca. The early years of the institutions give us a portrait of two unique models of education, learning, and pedagogy.
Who Are These Age-Old Female Figures?
Dancer/choreographer Chandralekha’s original essay on the iconography of the female, its deep subconscious power and its potential feminist charge.
Who Was Edward Said? Biographically Interpreted and Existentially Recollected
Remarks on 30 June 2021 at the opening on the Book Launch of Timothy Brennan’s ‘Places Of Mind: A Life Of Edward Said’. An attempt to grapple with the complexity and contradictory character of Said, who was at once engaging, paradoxical, theatrical, seductive, critical, provocative, who could be on occasion defensive and even enraged.
Born 200 years ago, What Is Fyodor Dostoevsky Telling Us Today Through His Novels?
Dostoevsky’s books – with their unique mix of dark comedy and pathos – are notoriously gloomy. Yet they can be oddly uplifting. In them he tested the very limits of human freedom: in prison he bore witness to the darkest sides of human nature; in his later years in freedom he agonised over our natural dogmatism and self-destructiveness.