Mainstream WeeklyThe Indian Constitution has supported the movement towards a Hindu state by accommodating communal nationalism.
A cursory glance at recent news reports suggests India is a very different place today than it was a decade ago. There is rampant and extreme violence against those who identify as Muslim, dissenters irrespective of their religion, or who do not sing the national anthem in public.
Vigilantes inflict violence in the name of protecting the cow for opinions and scholarship deemed (…)
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How the Indian Constitution advances the Hindu state | Suryapratim Roy & Rahul Sambaraju
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Why the West is Reluctant to name the Biggest Culprit of the Libyan Disaster | Bharat Dogra
16 September 2023, by Bharat DograThis is clearly the time for giving the highest priority to the rescue and rehabilitation effort In Libya where the recent floods have caused massive destruction. At the time of writing this over 5300 persons are reported to have died, and thousands more are reported missing. According to Derna Mayor Abdulbenam al-Ghaithi (quoted in a Reuters report published in The Times of India dated September 15), deaths in the city could reach 18,000 to 20,000. He said he feared an epidemic due to (…)
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How Racist Ideas Spread in France - Seven Rules | Jacques Ranciere
16 September 2023by Jacques Ranciere
21 April 2022
Seven rules to help spread racist ideas in France
In this article published in Le Monde in 1997, Jacques Rancière ironically described how the media and politicians from different backgrounds contribute to the dissemination of racist ideas, and proposed ‘seven rules’ to help them continue to reinforce the positions of the far right. This text, published more than 20 years ago, seems particularly relevant in the run-up to a presidential election that is (…) -
Sreenivasan. Review of Guha, Sumit, History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200-2000
16 September 2023Reviewed by Ramya Sreenivasan (University of Pennsylvania)
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History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200-2000 by Sumit Guha
University of Washington Press 2019. 264 pp. (paper), ISBN 978-0-295-74621-0 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-295-74622-7
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This book of extraordinary scholarship traces how different human societies have developed their modes of narrating and comprehending aspects of the past over time. This is a book about how collective knowledge about the past was (…) -
Review of Prabhakar’s The Crooked Timber of New India | Joydip Ghosal
16 September 2023BOOK REVIEW
The Crooked Timber of New India Essays on a Republic in Crisis
by Parakala Prabhakar
Speaking Tiger Books
2023
ISBN: 9789354474132 __0__
An insightful commentary on ‘New India’
The fascinating and searing commentary titled The Crooked timber Of New India, Essays on a Republic in Crisis by Parakala Prabhakar is an honest attempt to speak truth to powers that be. This book published by speaking Tiger is compilation of essays written over a period of three years from (…) -
Caricature: Tribute to Walter Alfred | Jairaj Vellur
16 September 2023, by Jayaraj Velluro o
[see also: Renowned journalist Walter Alfred passes away at 103 in Mumbai, leaves behind a legacy of reportage from the 20th century https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/renowned-journalist-walter-alfred-passes-away-at-103-in-mumbai-leaves-behind-a-legacy-of-reportage-from-the-20th-century-23308801 ] -
Painting: The Street (2013) by Fernando Botero
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Photo: Joseph Stalin’s statue was pulled down on the streets of Budapest during the Oct 1956 popular uprising
16 September 2023Enraged crowds tore down the huge Stalin monument in Budapest on Oct. 23, 1956
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Music: Bob Dylan - Motorpsycho Nightmare
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Animation Film : Mukund and Riaz by Nina Sabnani (2005)
16 September 2023Play
Mukund and Riaz by Nina Sabnani https://youtu.be/Od0G2PLCswI