For Those Delegitimising Tippoo Saëb, an Important Lesson from His Emissaries’ Trip to 1788 France
Tipu was once seen as one of the few Indian statesmen who could potentially restore a healthy balance of power in Indian and European politics.
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Hindutva Is Not the Same as Hinduism: Romila Thapar
In this long conversation, Romila Thapar discusses a wide range of issues − voices of dissent in Indian history, Hinduism and religious dissidence, Hinduism in history, the difference between secularism and religious tolerance, the issue of Aryan migration, and so on.
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Analysing Mamata Banerjee’s Decisive Victory in Bengal – Four Articles
‘No to BJP, But Yes to What?’: Why Bengal’s Decisive Mandate Reflects Courage; Battle for West Bengal: Mamata Lost but TMC Won, Modi-Shah Duo Humiliated, Left-Congress Washed Out; Key Economic Lessons Learnt from the West Bengal, Kerala Electoral Results
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Do Not Let Hindutva Rulers Destroy Heritage of Communal Unity of Jallianwala Bagh Martyrs
Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs fought and died together for India’s independence.
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The India I Loved
The India I grew up in, I loved was the one that was syncretic, tolerant, coloured with diversity of not just cultures but religions. It was the India that Ruskin Bond continues to highlight in his stories—full of humanitarian values and tolerance with a dollop of goodwill and humour.
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Persecution of Muslims Is No Longer About Divisive Politics, the Real Motive Is to Dehumanise
Our leaders appear to have succeeded in polarising society to such an extent that their electoral victories are almost guaranteed. Then, why are they going with ever-increasing gusto for crimes that target Muslims?
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A Portrait of Aurangzeb More Complex than Hindutva’s Political Project Will Admit
In ‘Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth’, Audrey Truschke sifts popular imagination on the ruler’s personal and political life from historical realities.
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Centenaries of Nazrul’s Bidrohi and Eliot’s The Waste Land: Colonized “I” versus Impersonal Autonomy
Eliot`s avant-garde leitmotif and “impersonality” theory structured the Waste Land; Nazrul`s Bidrohi is evidently more effusive and boisterous, suffused with the overabundant “I” that sustains the emotive poignance and rebellious self-assertion of the poem.
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Whose Feminism? Palestine’s Feminism
Palestinians affirm, yet again, that one cannot be a feminist while supporting gendered violence, settler-colonialism, indigenous dispossession, and apartheid.
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An ‘Encounter’ and a Vice-Chancellor
Remembering Professor Mushirul Hasan, Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, today is also to mourn the demise of the hopelessly utopian idea of composite culture.
