Aligarh and Women’s Education: A Brief Overview
Tracing the genesis and trajectory of women’s educational reform in Aligarh through the profile of a woman reformer – Waheed Jahan (1886-1939), the co-founder of Aligarh’s first girls’ school.
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War Is Not Innate to Humanity
The historical anthropologist says that there is a growing argument for a human history that predates war altogether and further points out that war is not innate to human nature, but instead, is a social and cultural development that begins at certain points around the globe.
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Sahir Ludhianvi: “The Magician” Whose Songs Live on Reverberating With Love and Life
Remembering Sahir Ludhianvi, one of India’s finest ever poet-lyricists, on his birth centenary.
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India’s Season of Dissent: an Interview with Poet Karthika Naïr
Karthika Naïr talks of Shaheen Bagh and of her poem “Ghazal: India’s Season of Dissent”, of the politics of literature, and of how literary texts can “respond” to violence, grief and pain.
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Sugathakumari (1934 – 2020): Her Inclusive Vision and Deep Empathy Set Her Apart
Sugathakumari not only produced some of the most iconic works of Malayalam poetry during her illustrious poetic career spanning almost six decades, she was also a leading social activist.
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Fr. Stan Swamy Shares a Poem from Jail
Jesuit Priest Father Stan Swamy (83) writes he’s pained to see so many young inmates in Taloja Jail, shares a Christmas message of compassion.
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Why the BJP’s Attempt to Appropriate Rabindranath Tagore Goes Against the Nobel Winner’s Own Beliefs
In works like ‘Home and the World’, ‘Gora’ and ‘Where the mind is without fear’, the Nobel Laureate demonstrated his opposition to aggressive nationalism.
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‘I Believe Dance Is a ‘Project’ to Enable a Recovery of the Body, of Our Spine’
The renowned dancer-choreographer says that the internal relation between dance and the dancer and the external relation between dance and society are questions that cannot be taken lightly.
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Farewell Shamsur Rahman Faruqi: The Sun That Set in the Earth
Faruqi (1935-2020) was simultaneously a high-quality writer, competent critic, respected poet, high-ranking short-story writer, authentic researcher, and expert of prosody and grammar.
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The Tramp’s Last Bow
‘Modern Times’ was not only Chaplin’s last silent film. It was also his Tramp’s swansong.
