Which Hindi Do We Speak Anyway?
The battle has always been about “purifying” Hindi, stripping it of foreignness, limiting its vernacular inclusions.
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Historian Richard Eaton: ‘Mughals Were Not a Foreign Empire’; NCERT Seeking to Erase Their History – 2 Articles
‘“Absolutely Wrong to See Mughals as a Foreign Empire”: Historian Richard Eaton’: Calling the Mughals a foreign empire is like calling America a foreign empire. The author also points out that it is impossible to rid India today of their influence. Also: ‘Erasing the Mughals: NCERT’s Assault on Truth and Memory’.
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How T.M. Krishna Turned Emperor Ashoka’s ‘Environmental’ Messages into Music
Historian Nayanjot Lahiri and the musician discuss their collaboration to reimagine Ashoka’s words through a contemporary prism.
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Saint Gorakhnath’s Inclusive Legacy: Lalu Prasad’s Challenge to Hindutva
‘Gorakhnath’s “Stolen” Legacy: Lalu’s Cultural Counter to Hindutva Ahead of Bihar Election’: Lalu’s revelation that Gorakhnath stood for inclusivity, coexistence, love and a harmonious synthesis of Hindu and Muslim faiths has the potential to challenge the Hindutva narrative. Also: ‘An Introduction to Saint Gorakhnath and His Inclusive Legacy’.
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Banu Mushtaq: The Rebel Writer; Review: ‘Heart Lamp’
‘Banu Mushtaq: The Rebel Writer’: Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp brings Kannada protest literature and Muslim women’s voices to the 2025 International Booker stage. Also: ‘Banu Mushtaq Writes Women as They are: Tired, Resilient, and Rarely Thanked’.
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Language is for Unity, Not Division
The politics of language today must be seen in the larger perspective of Indian civilization’s history. We should not allow anyone to drag this country and civilization back into the same mistakes from which our people have suffered for 2000 years.
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Gulfisha’s Voice Breaches Prison Walls – 2 Articles
Gulfisha Fatima. Half a decade has gone by and she has not been granted bail during this entire span, not even an interim one. Three benches of the Delhi High Court have not been able to move the young Muslims named in this FIR and who continue to be incarcerated an inch closer to bail. As for Gulfisha Fatima, she happens to be the only woman charged in that FIR who is still in jail.
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Culture | India | Online Blog
The World of Lalla: A Journey into the Heart of the 14th-Century Kashmiri Mystic Poetess
Her praxis, as her poetic corpus reveals, is rooted in the Saivate tradition and equally influenced by Islamic mysticism.
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Remembering Faiz Ahmad Faiz and His Poetry of Passion
Poets have mostly stood on the wrong side of the power and took upon themselves the task of making the truth known. Faiz Ahmad Faiz is a poet of this family, the family of which Persian poet Nazeeri Nishapuri said, “The one who is not killed is not from our tribe”.
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Seven Centuries on, Delhi Is Still Resounding with the Legacy of Amir Khusrau
Considered by some the most incomparable cultural icon of medieval Islamic India, Khusrau left such a deep imprint on Delhi’s culture that it can still be felt.
