Salt & Pepper. Selected Poems. Sukrita. Paperwall Publishing. April 2023. 196 pages. The latest anthology of Sukrita’s poems Salt and Pepper traverses the poet’s momentous journey of nearly four decades. The poems bring us to a world not altogether unfamiliar— but a world imbued with a sensibility that is fine, complex and aesthetically profound at […]
AUTHOR: Sujan Dutta Professor Ali. Captain Ali. Whatever the name, the man was the same. Parimal Kumar Ghosh. He died in the national capital recently (July 6). He was 84 years old and was ailing. In his death, he has given life to Ushinor Majumdar’s just published book. The life of the book is not
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Query: Does anyone know where there might be a photo of Nirad Chaudhuri receiving an Honorary Doctorate either from the University of Oxford or from the University of Stirling? – The Archives at the Bodleian Library (University of Oxford) has no such photo. N.B. They explain that “the University Archives looks after the historic administrative records of
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Here are two interesting snippets of information, provided by the Bodleian: – “It should be noted that the degree was not presented at Encaenia (the large ceremony awarding multiple honorary degrees that takes place during the summer), but a smaller celebration. Our records indicate that Chaudhuri was the only person who received an honorary degree
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Siddhartha Sarma’s Carpenters and Kings and Joanne Taylor’s The Churches of India outline an Indian Christian landscape as rooted as any other aspect of subcontinental heritage. Amidst India’s ongoing telescoping of political power into unprecedented dominance for the BJP of Amit Shah and Narendra Modi, some of the most intriguing subplots involve parts of the
AUTHOR: Rita Kakati-Shah Rita Kakati-Shah navigates the reader through the complexities of diversity, inclusivity and related topics in THE GODDESS OF GO-GETTING, drawing upon her extensive experience in the corporate world and in life. Rita Kakati-Shah navigates the reader through the complexities of diversity, inclusivity, and related topics in THE GODDESS OF GO-GETTING, drawing upon
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Even though the colonial-era Parliament building is being replaced with much fanfare in India, the criminal defamation law, along with many other colonial laws, like seditious libel, enacted by the British raj in the 19th century, is still in effect. The “mother of democracy” – India – stands out as a glaring outlier among the
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BOOK REVIEW: WE THE PEOPLE OF THE STATES OF BHARAT [ Sanjeev Chopra. Harper Collins. 2022. ] ( This review was originally published in the TRIBUNE) AMALGAMATING HISTORY WITH GEOGRAPHY The book is essentially a work of history, but from a different perspective. Historical accounts are usually narrated from either the victor’s angle, or the
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Book review: No Land’s People indicts India’s NRC process Indian journalist Abhishek Saha documents how the citizenship determination process in Assam state was marred by ‘bias and arbitrariness’. India’s northeastern state of Assam drew the attention of international media in August 2019, when a citizens’ register excluded nearly two million residents, effectively rendering them stateless. The National
