Quantum Philosophy: 4 Ways Physics will Challenge Your Reality
Working out the basic nature of reality according to quantum mechanics is a little bit like an impossible Sudoku.
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BJP Is Always Uncomfortable with Tagore – PM Modi Quoting His Poems Won’t Reverse This
Modi’s wanton quoting of Tagore strikes as too much of an attempt to woo Bengalis in election season, considering the overall unfamiliarity with Tagore and his verses, displayed by BJP leaders. Also: Students protest Amit Shah’s visit to Visva-Bharati.
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John Lennon and the Politics of the New Left
Forty years after his murder in New York City, we remember John Lennon’s record of political engagement as a champion of the anti-war movement and a self-styled “instinctive socialist”—which brought him into conflict with Richard Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover.
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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.
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Manglesh Dabral: Poet and Editor Who was the Voice of the Marginalized
An obituary; and two poems by Mangesh Dabral, translated into English.
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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.
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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.
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The Voracious Reader
For Fidel, reading was a source of knowledge and intellectual pleasure. We must foster this irreplaceable passion.
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Two Poems
Farmers’ Mann ki Baat; Father, We have Sinned.
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Paul Robeson, Artist as Revolutionary
Notes on Sharon Rudahl’s superlative biography of Paul Robeson.
