Even an Ordinary Road Can Lead All Too Easily to a Concentration Camp
Alain Resnais’s film ‘Night and Fog’ exhorts us to watch where we are going.
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Gopi Chand Narang (1931-2022) – Two Obituaries
Gopi Chand Narang, who passed away on June 15, was a towering scholar who kept reiterating the secular, tolerant, inclusive and assimilative character of Urdu till his last breath.
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‘I Believe Dance is a ‘Project’ To Enable a Recovery of the Body, of Our Spine’
It was in 1984, at the East-West Dance encounter, that Chandralekha – making a return to dance after an interregnum of 12 years – proposed these ideas. More than three decades after they were first articulated, her ideas on the predicament and possibilities of our dance still ring true.
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Amir Khusrau, the Great Survivor Whose Versatile Imagination Remains Fresh Even Today
A tribute to Amir Khusrau 1253-1325), whose annual urs, or death anniversary commemoration, begins May 19, 2022: Khusrau (was a Renaissance Man long in advance of the Renaissance.
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Conceptualising Brahmanical Patriarchy in Early India
This article explores the relationship between caste and gender, focusing on what is possibly the central factor for the subordination of the upper caste woman: the need for effective sexual control over such women to maintain not only patrilineal succession but also caste purity.
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How the West Discovered the Buddha Through Literature
What Western travellers and others learnt about the man and the religion he founded from books written in historical times.
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Caste | Culture | Online Blog | Securalism
Roots of Feminist Fervour: Women in Bhakti Movement
Their sheer sense of individualism and power through spirituality made the rise of women’s voices prominent in Bhakti tradition. We can trace the elements of feminism through their songs, poems, and ways of life. On some of the important women saints of the Bhakti tradition who became the primitive voices of the rise of feminism in India.
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Guernica
Despite it being one of the few paintings that may be said to be almost universally known, or perhaps because of it, it is interesting to take a closer look at this iconic painting and discover more about what it says, exactly, and why it has the effect it has on the viewer.
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Bring Back the Mortal Remains of Bahadur Shah Zafar
Memorandum submitted to the President of India in May 2013. The revolt of 1857 broke out on 10 May in Meerut. This year’s 10 May will be the 165th anniversary of the revolt. To mark the occasion, the Memorandum is released again with a hope that this demand will be addressed without further delay.
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‘I Doubt, Therefore I Am’: Revisiting Mirza Ghalib’s Poetry
‘Thinking with Ghalib’ by Anjum Altaf and Amit Basole reinterprets 30 of Ghalib’s couplets. Its essential purpose is to make the reader think with Ghalib. And the very soul of Ghalib’s poetry is doubt.
