An Ambedkarite Is Interweaving Buddha’s Teachings with Dhrupad in a Leap of Artistic Faith
S. Anand, the founder of publishing house Navayana, is trying to break away from the body of Hindustani bandishes that remain stuck in antiquity.
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In Malerkotla, One Can Find the Vestiges of India’s Forgotten History of Tolerance
The senseless and relentless march of violence has made us forget who we are and how we have lived, worked and prayed together for centuries.
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Experiments in Education: The early years of Visva Bharati and Dacca University
In 1921, Bengal witnessed the foundation of two universities: Visva Bharati and Dacca. The early years of the institutions give us a portrait of two unique models of education, learning, and pedagogy.
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Who Are These Age-Old Female Figures?
Dancer/choreographer Chandralekha’s original essay on the iconography of the female, its deep subconscious power and its potential feminist charge.
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Who Was Edward Said? Biographically Interpreted and Existentially Recollected
Remarks on 30 June 2021 at the opening on the Book Launch of Timothy Brennan’s ‘Places Of Mind: A Life Of Edward Said’. An attempt to grapple with the complexity and contradictory character of Said, who was at once engaging, paradoxical, theatrical, seductive, critical, provocative, who could be on occasion defensive and even enraged.
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Born 200 years ago, What Is Fyodor Dostoevsky Telling Us Today Through His Novels?
Dostoevsky’s books – with their unique mix of dark comedy and pathos – are notoriously gloomy. Yet they can be oddly uplifting. In them he tested the very limits of human freedom: in prison he bore witness to the darkest sides of human nature; in his later years in freedom he agonised over our natural dogmatism and self-destructiveness.
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Sedition Then and Now: Gandhi’s Great Trial 100 Years On
The law is now being deployed for the political end he was willing to die to prevent – the establishment of a Hindu Raj.
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Supreme Court Must Stay Karnataka HC Hijab Verdict
This order will have a far-reaching negative impact on the safety, dignity, and right to education of Muslim girls and women.
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India | Print Edition | USA | World Politics
India Should Quit Quad Now!
Indian foreign policy needs a strategic course correction. India should distance itself completely from the self-centred U.S. polices whose aim is the preservation of its global hegemony. The first step in that direction should be to quit Quad.
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Unfair Share: India Is in Deep Denial About Inequality
“Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does,” George Orwell once stated. Redistribution is an essential function of government—redistribution from the rich to the poor. Today, many governments—not just in India—resist or even prevent redistribution of resources to the poor.
