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Film And Family: Revisiting An Early Patwardhan Classic

“But human nature being what it is, the victims of demolition and displacement are not to be demoralized so easily. If there is anything to prevent them from going to pieces, it is the solidarity of the ‘space-less’. Hindus, Muslims, Dalits become one, especially wh...

Remembering Ibn-e-Insha, Poet and Satirist: Jamal Kidwai

Ibn-e-Insha (15 June 1927 – 11 January 1978) would have turned 93 today. We celebrate his birthday by curating some of his best poetry, sung by leading vocalists from India and Pakistan. Born in Jalandhar, Punjab, on 15 June 1927, he was named Sher Mohammad Khan by hi...

Mahatma Gandhi, Race and Caste

“The best response to accusations of Gandhi being a racist came from Nelson Mandela, who wrote, “All in all, “Gandhi must be forgiven those prejudices and judged in the context of the time and the circumstances.” Mandela recognized the crucial point that Gandhi’s views...

The purpose of making Nagaland Governor's letter to CM public?

The Governor of Nagaland R.N. Ravi has written a scathing letter to Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio alleging complete collapse of law and order and unwillingness of the elected government to resist several armed groups indulging in extortion and violence. Ravi has revealed ...

The situation at LAC: PM must come clean

In 2020, a military confrontation may not materialise, but the Chinese have evidently prepared for one over a long period
There is a fundamental similarity between the border situation with China under Prime Minister Narendra Modi now, and the one during the tenure of the country’s first leader, Jawaharlal Nehru, leading eventually to the month-long clash in 1962 in which Indian forces we...

Netanyahu Stalls

“We have been hearing about sovereignty for a year and a half without things happening on the ground. Today turned out to be one big farce,” said prominent Israeli settler leader Yossi Dagan on Wednesday. For months the first of July had been advertised as the date whe...

Russian Referendum

“The very existence of an opportunity for the current president (to be re-elected in 2024), given his major gravitas, would be a stabilising factor for our society,”, said Valentina Tereshkova, former Soviet cosmonaut, first woman in space, and now, at 83, a member of ...

Gandhi’s Last March: A Parable for Today

There is something that comes to haunt us in our present state of callousness towards truth and human suffering. For Gandhi, there was no consideration – not even the country’s unity – that could permit compromise with truth and concern for the poor, the oppressed a...

Journalism in India has placed itself on deputation to the government

Editors have become ‘faceless technicians’
By and large, journalism in India has been a mirror image of its rickety- and tawdry- democracy in the Modi years, and has probably hit its lowest point after the commencement of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second term in office in May, 2019, with a bigger mandate t...

Reach Out To Those You Dislike..!

It’s very easy to like your friends, but what about reaching across to those who are different; that man who smells, the poor, the overdressed woman trying to make an impression? Her name was Mrs. Thompson. Like most teachers, she looked at her students and said she ...

The law of Sedition: Endangering the very idea of an inclusive Democracy

“The sedition law has a long history of power and politics. Bal Gangadhar Tilak was tried thrice under this provision and in one case, was famously defended by Muhammad Ali Jinnah. In his defense, he had argued that if at all he had excited any defection, it was agains...
 

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