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, by JANMOHAMED Zahir
In Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India, Oishik Sircar analyses the judgment in the Best Bakery case and examines the plots of three Hindi films released after the 2002 Gujarat pogrom.
On March 24, 2002, while living in Ahmedabad, I received an invitation to (…)
, by CHANDHOKE Neera
The philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) reminded us that though man is born free, he is everywhere in chains. The inference is that we break one chain, and others arise to strike us on the face. Consider that August 1947 brought India freedom. But along with old moribund traditions, (…)
, by NAIR Prathap
Verghese returns to familiar themes in ‘The Covenant of Water’ – modern medicine, political upheavals, and more – to confirm himself as a writer of his own type of global novel
In Abraham Verghese’s second and latest novel, The Covenant of Water, a twelve-year-old girl is married off to a (…)
, by ACEVEDO Deepa Das
Adopted in 1949, India’s original constitution has withstood the test of time to help shape the world’s largest democracy. But as India hits turbulent time, so does its landmark constitution.
India will celebrate its 75th birthday on Aug. 15, 2022.
Its independence from British colonial rule (…)
, by BOSE Sugata, THAPAR Karan
In an interview with Karan Thapar, Netaji’s grandnephew Sugata Bose said the freedom fighter would have been “quite dismayed” to see how the minorities are being discriminated against in today’s India.
On January 23, Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled a hologram of Subhas Chandra Bose at (…)
, by FERNANDES Naresh, GHANDY Kobad
An interview with the author of ‘Fractured Freedom: A Prison Memoir’.
In September 2009, when newspapers reported that activist Kobad Ghandy had been arrested in Delhi’s Bhikaji Cama Place, there was a curious historical coincidence to the event.
Just over 90 years earlier, Madame Cama had (…)
, by ANIL Pratinav
Why Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi were never really on the Left to begin with.
Were India’s early postcolonial leaders socialists? Yes, undeniably, goes the common reflex, both on the Left and Right. To most conservatives, following the economist Jagdish Bhagwati, it took a new (…)
, by LUDHIANVI Sahir, MIR Ali, MIR Raza
Mujh ko is ka ranj nahiñ hai, log mujhe fankaar na maaneñ Fikr-o sukhan ke taajir mere sheroñ ko ash’aar na maaneñ
I do not regret that people do not consider me an artist That the traders of thought and words do not think of my poems as poetry
With this characteristically bold verse, Sahir (…)
, by VENKATARAMAKRISHNAN Rohan
The renowned historian’s new book, Voices of Dissent, looks at moments in India’s past when the dominant narrative was challenged.
Romila Thapar is one of India’s most distinguished historians, whose work beginning in the 1960s has sought to nuance our understanding of India’s past. A (…)
, by SINGH Bhagat
If religion is separated from politics, then we can all come together in politics even if we belong to different religions, wrote Bhagat Singh.
On Bhagat Singh’s birth anniversary, an extract from The Bhagat Singh Reader, edited by Chaman Lal and published by HarperCollins India.
The essay (…)
, by GUPTA Uttaran Das
The internment of Chinese Indians during the Sino-Indian War of 1962 has contemporary echoes.
Andy Hsieh was a school student in Shillong, a town in northeast India, when he was suddenly arrested one day in 1962. His crime? He was of Chinese descent.
“The principal tried to intervene and (…)
Review of Political Parties, Party Manifestos and Elections in India, 1909–2014 edited by R K Tiwari, Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2019; pp xxi + 309, ?1,495
The book under review is a product of an Indian Council of Social Sciences Research (ICSSR) senior fellowship availed by (Retd) R K (…)
, by GULAB Safed
Narendra Modi has from his childhood been a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), which had links to Italian fascism and Nazism; from the period when Modi was chief minister to this day, school textbooks in Gujarat, ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP, an affiliate of the RSS), (…)
, by ROY Sabitri
Extracts from Sabitri Roy’s ’Harvest Song’, which depicts the Tebhaga movement that began when landless peasants and sharecroppers rebelled against landlords.
Sabitri Roy’s work is filled with a kind of light that originates in the author’s deeply held belief that human beings will always (…)
, by VANAIK Achin
The scale of Modi’s BJP hegemony today can bear comparison to that of the Indian National Congress party in the first decades after Independence. What sort of rupture do these new hegemons represent with the more reverential forms of bourgeois rule that went before? Between the two eras lies a (…)
, by MISHRA Pankaj
Hindu nationalism is more Italian and Christian than Sonia Gandhi.
Hindu nationalists have always made large claims about their exemplary and inimitable Hindu-ness. In Essentials of Hindutva, the book that comes closest to defining the ideology of modern Hindu nationalism, V D Savarkar (…)
, by ALIKHAN Anvar
Bruce Reidel’s ‘JFK’s Forgotten Crisis’ offers startling revelations and what-if possibilities.
For many years there’s been a story floating around that in 1962, when the Chinese invasion was into its fourth unstoppable week, the Indian government panicked completely and wrote to the US (…)
, by RAO Nagesh
Review of Perry Anderson, The Indian Ideology, Verso, 2013 · 192 pages · $19.95.
First published as a series of essays in the London Review of Books, this is a provocative book that deftly cuts through the mythologies of Indian nationalism. The essays and the book have elicited several (…)
, by DEB Siddhartha
An Uncertain Glory. India and Its Contradictions. By Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen.
The Indian Ideology. By Perry Anderson.
In May, in a national election widely perceived as marking a dramatic new phase for India, the Hindu right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won an absolute majority in (…)
, by BANNERJI Himani, KHAN Salmaan
India recently concluded its 2014 federal elections in which a record 550 million people cast their votes, electing Narendra Modi of the right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as Prime Minister and securing his party’s position with a majority 282 out of 543 seats in (…)
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