Shinda Onnanoko (Dead Girl)
In 1955, ten years after the U.S. dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima (Japan), the Turkish poet Nâzim Hikmet wrote a poem in the voice of a seven-year-old girl who died in that terrible act.
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On the Bicentennial of Shelley’s Death: Evolution of a Working-Class Poet
Next to Burns, Shelley had the greatest influence on 19th-century working-class literature in England. His vision applies undiminished today.
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The Idea of Manto
Saadat Hasan Manto, born on May 11, 1912 in Ludhiana in British India, is an enduring literary icon and one of those few people that both India and Pakistan see as their own. However, in reality, Manto belonged nowhere, even whilst his art is poignantly treasured on both sides of the border.
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Caste | Caste | Culture | People's movements | Print Edition
Republic of Caste: Anand Teltumbde’s Thoughts Strive to Liberate Us Even as He Is in Jail
His vision of working-class unity with an anti-caste core may or may not be realisable, but it is an important line of argument and action at the very least.
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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.
