Easterine Kire, the prize-winning Indian novelist from Nagaland, has provided us a lovely collection of short stories through The Rain-Maiden and the Bear-Man, accompanied by beautiful colour illustrations by graphic artist Sunandini Banerjee. The title-story concerns a man who, though blessed with the love of the beautiful Rain-Maiden, is captive to the sadly common male […]
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Wandana Sonalkar is a self-proclaimed atheist and in this autobiographical account titled ‘Why I am not a Hindu Woman’, Sonalkar critically reflects on her position on why she has chosen to renounce her religion. This work adds to the list of works where authors are writing to declare their religious positions like Kancha Illaiah’s ‘Why
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It is a man from that eastern extreme of our country who is the subject of this biography. His story is outstanding evidence, if any is needed, that India has a talent for ignoring its best sons and daughters. How can it be that such incredible achievements as those of Shri Toy remain unknown, unrecognised
Biography of Shri I. Lanu Toy, “TSÜNGCHI SAMANIR KA” by Repalemzüng Longkümer’s Read More »
In Singing Gandhi’s India, historian Lakshmi Subramanian examines Gandhi’s relationship with music through his letters, significant events and other documents. Leaning on bhajans Subramanian begins by introducing the reader to the early nationalisation project aimed at collating and creating a new ‘classical’ tradition of Indian music: Hindustani classical in the north and Carnatic in the south.
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India’s farmers have sustained the largest protests in modern Indian history since Mahatma Gandhi and the independence movement. While Gandhi’s khadi dhoti appeared in media worldwide, the farmers received relatively scant attention until cultural stars like Rihanna and Greta Thunberg tweeted and Disha Ravi, the granddaughter of a farmer, was arrested. Isabel Wilkerson’s book Caste:
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Of all the books that have been published on the Coronavirus and the Lockdown, Professor Arun Kumar’s Indian Economy’s Greatest Crisis is the first book to examine the impact of these global phenomena on the Indian economy. Initially, I thought it exaggerated to claim that the current crisis is the greatest one that India has
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With agents, sub-agents, double agents, and intrigues within the system – The Khalistan Conspiracy reads like a thriller. Yet it throws light on highly-current questions, such as: should today’s protesting farmers be dubbed as Khalistanis? How astute has India been historically in dealing with farmers? With Sikhs? Further, was it the Indian Government which actually
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The Congress has won political freedom, but it has yet to win economic freedom, social freedom, and moral freedom. These freedoms are harder than the political, if only because they are constructive, less exciting and not spectacular -Mahatma Gandhi The opening quote of Oral History of Indian Freedom Movement by Mahatma Gandhi sums up the true
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Bharara describes this book as a treatise on “the rule of law, and faith in the rule of law”. Such a treatise is desperately needed in India today. Why? Because, as is the case with most non-Reformation cultures, our culture is inherently against the spirit of the Rule of Law. Most Indians understand neither the
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