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The complex systems of the natural world can open our eyes to a new way of being.
Between the stollen and the stockings, archaeologist and historian Neil Faulkner indulges in a spot of seasonal myth-busting.
A government bill to raise the legal age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 will not prevent early or forced weddings, will deem many marriages of those between 18-21 illegal, and criminalise elopement by girls dodging domestic abuse, confinement, forced marriage.
In the past 12 years, a group of 51 Dalit women in Ahmedabad district have converted around 36 acres of the government’s “non-useful” wasteland into fertile farms that yield two crops a year. They are now demanding that the state govt. grant them ownership of the land under Gujarat’s Santhani scheme.
Dancer and seminal thinker Chandralekha’s 35 years-old lecture, ‘Changing Phases of Bharatanatyam’ sheds light on the need to rethink a new direction for dance. She would have turned 93 on 6 December 2021.
It has become fashionable to dismiss peaceful forms of resistance to injustice – but the evidence suggests they should be taken seriously. A response to some of the myths often repeated on the Left about non-violent struggle.
Not many Indian rulers have faced the wrath of historians as badly as the Mysore Tiger. He ranks way above the usually celebrated and worshipped personalities of ancient and medieval India in innovation, technological proclivity, secular outlook, social commitment and above all, patriotism.
Had he lived longer, Sukanta Bhattacharya could obviously have given us much more, but we should be grateful for what he left behind.
Although he belonged to the ruling class, he did not subscribe to their elitism and a narrow divisive view of the religion. He established close relations with the underprivileged castes and poor people. He also lived as a poor man, in simplicity and poverty.
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