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Dedicated to God, Brutalised by Men
On paper the devadasi system is banned. Yet, across South India, it continues to cast a long shadow of violence in the lives of Dalit women.
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Progressive Artists’ Group @75: Rebels with a Cause
The Progressive Artists’ Group (PAG), founded in 1947, belonged to a moment of transition and optimism. Last year, it celebrated its 75th anniversary along with the country. A look back at the PAG’s claims and achievements.
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Caste | Culture | Online Blog
Rahul Sankrityayan’s Tibet Story
An excerpt from the book ‘Mystics and Sceptics : In Search of Himalayan Masters’, edited by Namita Gokhale.
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It’s This Way
A poem.
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India’s Urdu Press: A Bitter-Sweet Bicentenary
In the past 75 years, a community of Urdu magazines that used to be read by the entire family has disappeared unmourned, so too their journalists and readers. There is also now no major Urdu newspaper or magazine that is edited by a non-Muslim.
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Gandhi
A poem.
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The Masterly Use of Universalism: Revisiting Satyajit Ray’s Cinema in 2023
His films are about the human condition and the ‘dailiness’ or undramatic aspects of life with no simple winners or losers.
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Meet the Extraordinary Intellectual Tho Pa, Who Awakened Tamils to the Richness of Their Culture
An introduction to Tho Paramasivan, the author of ‘Ariyappadaatha Tamizhagam’, translated into English as ‘The Sweet Salt of Tamil’.
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Why the Government of Venezuela has Resisted While Many Leftist Presidents Could Not
Chávez faced—and Maduro has continued to face—all the strategies, tactics, maneuvers, games, and schemes that the U.S. empire and its satellites and lackeys have successfully used throughout the rest of the continent, among other ploys that have been used in other parts of the world.
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Shakespeare and Marxism
Shakespeare work is usually depicted as apolitical, devoid of any radical or subversive messages. It is a mistaken belief; his plays reflect the ills of rising capitalism and emergence of the bourgeois individual: cutthroat and egotistical – this can be seen in characters from Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth.
