When the Music of Beethoven Mingled with the Music of Gandhi’s Spinning Wheel
In the year of Beethoven’s 250th birth anniversary, remembering how two Europeans brought together Gandhi and the German composer.
Manglesh Dabral: Poet and Editor Who was the Voice of the Marginalized
An obituary; and two poems by Mangesh Dabral, translated into English.
Is this the Golden Age of Ram’s Kingdom?
Modern jurisprudence in India can be compared with justice that prevailed during Lord Ram’s reign. While there are many differences with these ancient precepts, commonalities in both legal codes are interesting.
Remembering Munshi Premchand on His 140th Birth Anniversary: The Jamia Connection
Premchand wrote his last story ‘Kafan’ in the Jamia campus. It was written at the request of Professor Aqeel, editor of Jamia Millia Islamia’s in-house magazine.
The Voracious Reader
For Fidel, reading was a source of knowledge and intellectual pleasure. We must foster this irreplaceable passion.
Two Poems
Farmers’ Mann ki Baat; Father, We have Sinned.
Paul Robeson, Artist as Revolutionary
Notes on Sharon Rudahl’s superlative biography of Paul Robeson.
Essential Message of Guru Nanak
Our deeply troubled world today badly needs the essential message of peace, simplicity, equality and inter-faith harmony which Guru Nanak spread with so much skill and courage.
‘The Ascent of Literature Is the Ascent of a Nation’
An essay to mark the the 140th year of his birth: Some people find joy in jewels, some in a happy family, some in big mansions and some in luxury; the joy of reading good literature is greater than these joys and purer than them.
Charting the Ethical Landscape: Tagore’s Vision of Nation in ‘Where the Mind Is Without Fear’
Tagore reveals the possibility of a nation that essentially emerges from the thoughts and actions of individuals who respond to the truth within their inner being.