Three Poems
You Will Not Speak; One Day I Saw My Girl; A Spark
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Kashi ka Kabir: Reinterpreting a Poet’s Life and His Times
One cannot ‘read’ Kabir without ‘reading’ the genius of the indigenous mind on the one hand and the impact of colonial intervention on the other. The author says he realised this only gradually, during the long, painful and adventurous journey in search of his own relation with Kabir.
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Culture | Online Blog | USA
A Letter to My Nephew
James Baldwin’s thoughts on his nephew’s future (in the USA)—in a country with a terrible history of racism— first appeared in The Progressive magazine in 1962. Over 50 years later his words are, sadly, more relevant than ever.
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Caste | Culture | Online Blog
The Laughing Bard: In Memory of Siddalingaiah
Siddalingaiah, who passed away on June 11, was not only a poet, but also an activist and public intellectual all his life. A key figure in the Dalit movement of the 1970s and 1980s, he was one of the co-founders of the Dalit Sangharsha Samiti in Karnataka.
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Art World Remembers M F Husain 10 Years After the Artist Died in Forced Exile
With FIRs and persistent death threats from Hindutva forces, Husain was forced into self-exile. He died on June 9, 2011 at the age of 95, yearning to return to his country.
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Gujarati Writers, Readers Condemn Sahitya Akademi’s Vilification of Poem on Ganga Corpses; Sequel to Poem – Voice from Heaven
“This is beating the pen with the hammer, a death knell for the right to freedom of expression of Gujarati writers” – says the statement.
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Keeping Count: Two Poems
Keeping Count; Lost Home.
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The Madras High Court Judge Who Banned Gay Conversion Therapy Spoke of Fighting His Own Biases – Two Articles
Judge Anand Venkatesh described his quest to tackle his ‘ignorance and prejudice’ about same-sex relationships. Ajay Kumar thanks the judge for making him and millions of people like him feel like they belong to this society and that this society acknowledges their existence.
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Buddhadeb Dasgupta Tribute: A Chronicler of Dreamers in a Hostile World
The renowned filmmaker died on June 10 at the age of 77.
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Why Emperor Ashoka and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi are More Similar than We Might Imagine
An excerpt from historian Upinder Singh’s ‘Ashoka and Gandhi’, from ‘The Fourth Lion: Essays for Gopalkrishna Gandhi’.
