Why Indian Democracy Needs More ‘Unlettered’ Literary Figures
Those courageous voices would bring the republic back to the norms envisioned in the Constitution.
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What Indian Media Didn’t Tell Us About Faiz Festival in Lahore
While Javed Akhtar’s remarks at the event are significant, much more significant is the progressive environment the fair provides.
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An Elegy for Gandhi’s Un-Gandhian India
Book Review. When you retrace Gandhi’s steps to Dandi you get to understand what ‘vikas’ means and what it does not mean for Gujarat and for all of India today. A most unusual book about a most unusual journey.
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The Mammoth ‘Do or Die’ Struggle
Of all the movements launched as part of our freedom struggle, the Quit India movement was easily the most complex, dramatic and multi-faceted.
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Omnipresent Caste
Sociologists have long believed that urbanisation could signal the end of the caste system. B.R. Ambedkar encouraged people from marginalised castes to migrate to urban areas. Unfortunately, however, cities have their own way of perpetuating these inequalities.
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Invoking the Russell-Einstein Manifesto Against Nuclear War
The need for intellectuals to commit themselves body and soul to the common good, and the opposition to world war, and nuclear war, is only the greater at this horrible moment of taunting and daring launched by Presidents Biden and Putin today – says Pastreich.
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Heroism and Compassion Amid the Horrors of Partition
On the acts of courage, which symbolised the syncretic heritage of the subcontinent, amid the communal savagery that marked the Partition of India.
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On 40 Years of the Nellie Massacre in Assam
It’s been 40 years since over 2,000 Muslims were slaughtered in Assam’s Nellie town. The ghosts of Nellie continue to haunt India even today every time we overlook an incident of hate speech or let perpetrators of violence to go scot-free.
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In Defence of an ‘Old’ Man
In 2002, there must have been ministers that thought K. Subrahmanyam – who was well over 70 at the time – had been ‘vicious’ in calling a democratically chosen leader an ‘asura’. Mercifully, none of them attacked him for being old.
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Caste | Indian Politics | Print Edition | USA
Seattle Bans Caste-Based Discrimination
Seattle made history Tuesday as the first city in the U.S. to expressly ban caste-based discrimination after an outpouring of input from South Asian Americans.
